How Animals Grief Summary

I believe dogs and books are both significant, especially in times of our sorrow. We have dogs who are loving and compassionate, and books which are best described to be our “ultimate escape.” To begin with, the author of the article, Christie Blatchford brings to our attention that humans can not solve all of our problems. “They mean to say the right thing, the comforting thing, but they say the wrong thing.” In my opinion, Blatchford’s perspective on human’s is true, as we are far from perfect. We don't always say the right things only because we haven't experienced scenarios our peers may have. However, when we have a friendly creature such as dogs, it's best they cannot talk, just comfort us by cuddling. This is what makes a dog is

In “On Natural Death,” Thomas appeals to the readers by contemplating the subject of death with an academic approach that includes facts, data, and information. Thomas successfully transforms death from an awkward, emotional subject to a more comfortable intellectual one. This engages the readers by placing contemplation of death and dying within the confines of a more manageable and rational context. His gradual exhumation of death eases the audience into pondering the subject in the absence of emotional stress. The essay transitions from the death of an elm tree to that of a mouse. This is followed by Thomas giving a significant amount of attention to a scientific explanation of death, and then finally the description of the near death experience of a human. This use of an academic appeal moves the audience to a comfort zone with the subject of death and circumvents the common response of avoidance. The reader is simultaneously desensitized to the gravity of subject matter and given permission to consider death and dying without the normal societal negative stigma associated with the subject.

I honestly think that Jeremy Rifkin had some very significant findings when he published “A Change of Heart about Animals”. If it wasn't for Rifkin many people like myself would have not known that animals share some of the same traits as humans like grief, self awareness, and the need for affection. Everyone needs to know that animals aren't some type of toy but rather a living creature with feelings. Rifkin wants his readers to believe that humans and animals are much alike and want some of the same rights for them but is that a good idea…

In the article “A Change of Heart About Animals”, Rifkin asserts that humans are treating animals in the most atrocious way, and he claims that in order for their lives to improve, we need to definitely adjust ours. He uses great amount of logos, and several experiments done with different animals and tries his best to closely relate animals to us, humans. Rifkin although, never inserts a call for action to this problem throughout his article. Instead, he puts the emphasis on the pathos of the argument. In the world we are living in today, there is about 8.7 million different living species. Whether they are land or marine animals, they do play a big role in our community such as being apart of the food pyramid, assisting handicapped people wherever they go, or being a transportation for people living on farms and fields. With this being said, the ranking of animals in our community has brought up a heated argument in connection to their rights and welfare. Eight legged, four legged, or two legged land or sea animals do not comprehend the concept of rights. If we, humans, give animals “rights”, we are basically inferring the fact that we are like animals, and they have the entitlement to share our rights. Although they don’t understand rights, the fact that many of these animals are being treated inhumanely is wrong and animal welfare should be ingrained into this community rather than the massive inhumane treatment.

The first point of utilitarianism is important for readers to understand because upon completion of reading this work, or any work related to animals deserving equal considerations in terms of suffering, comes a question of ethics and a decision. Singer expresses the similarities between how humans treated one another and their progressions over time throughout Animal Liberation with good reasons. The

People have the space to understand themselves when stay with animals, and learn many meaningful ideas from them. When people lost their families, they cannot accept it because they rarely face this kind of situations. Before her husband passes away, Goodall believes in god. However, after losing her husband, Goodall angry at the “unjustness” and starts to reject the god. To seek for healing, she decides to go to the forest and stay with chimpanzees in Gombe. However, in the forest, animals deal with death in a totally different way. Dead body can be finding everywhere and death is happening at all times. Thus, animals treat it normally. As Goodall says, “And always there are the young ones to carry on the life of the species”(146). Although old ones will passes away when they are old, but young ones are growing up and

Murder and abuse cases never fail to startle society. Moral codes are flouted with unmatched rigorousness by these indubitable egregious crimes. Sufferers in these cases are often people. Nonetheless, these callous obscenities should not be seen as less important when animals are the victims. Animals undergo horrendous abuse due to barbaric individuals, greed, and unnecessary lab testing.

Contrary to what we might think, animals share similar characteristics with us in terms of their physical and psychological states. Jeremy Rifkin, author of twenty books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the society and the environment, writes in his op-ed piece “A Change of Heart about Animals,” research which supports animals have behavioral, mental, and emotional states. Koko, a gorilla, was taught how to use sign language and has mastered more than 1,000 signs and can understand several thousand English words. To express their sense of individuality, orangutans use mirrors to explore parts of their bodies they can 't otherwise see. A common misconception is animals can 't feel anything, meaning they don’t understand suffering. However, elephants appear to experience grief by mourning for the dead and standing next to their dead kin for days (Rifkin). Also according to Victoria Braithwaite, a Professor of Fisheries and Biology interested in animal cognition, studies in her article "Hooked on a Myth" suggests nociceptors, specialized nerve endings that alert creatures to feel pain, are found in the mouths of fish. This study proves animals have the ability to experience pain. Rifkin’s

As we go through life, we experience countless losses. Those losses include loved ones such as family members, friends, or both--pets. Some individuals covet their furry friends as family, and when that family pet dies people exhibit the same feelings of loss as they would for a human. However, some individuals are not as involved with their pets, and do not experience the same emotional response to their passing. Nonetheless, the loss of a pet is a memorable experience for most people. In John Updike’s Dog’s Death and Jane Kenyon’s The Blue Bowl, the speakers have just lost a pet; and although their experiences are similar, their attitudes towards their pets departure do not completely align. This essay will outline the similarities in these poems, as well distinguish their differences.

The book, Lament For a Son, written by Nicholas Wolterstorff talks about his pain and grief after losing his 25-year-old son (Joy, 2009). His son died while on a mountain-climbing expedition. Dr. Wolterstorff has several books published during his career as a philosophical theology professor in Yale Divinity. However, he wrote Lament for a Son with a different journal style since it is a personal thing for him. The book is similar to a journal as he narrates the events that happened before and after his son’s death. The emotions expressed in the book are common among people who lose close relatives. What matters is how a person handles the issue. Kubler-Ross invented the five stages of grief; denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptancethat explain the escalation of grief when stricken by bad news (Axelrod, 2004). The paper looks into the book and its relation to the five stages of grief.

According to the The Humane Society of the United States roughly six-million animals are handled by shelters and clinics every year; though, only four million are adopted or claimed . The other two million animals are left in these shelters until they die or are subjected to cruel practices of euthanasia. There are simply too many animals and not enough people who are open to adoption. The animal overpopulation crisis and euthanasia cruelty can be prevented by an approach called animal birth control and adopting.

Animals have been used in research for several decades, and have helped us discover several vaccines. Karpati uses the reader’s emotions to help better his argument. However, the opposing side used more than just the reader’s emotions to help persuade. This is important, because it helps balance the article out. A reader wants to look at things not just from an emotional standpoint, but also a logical one too. An example of how Karpati uses the reader’s emotions is when he talks about how humans are dying everyday. As he once was a pediatrician, he saw first hand the impact that death had on families (1,2). He shows the reader that if an animal needs to die to help stop this horrific tragedy then it is a small price to

His response was no they do not feel psychological suffering. His is negative on how animals’ emotions affect the ability of their emotions, so we must ask how and why is he right or wrong. His answers by saying “No. There is no such thing as an animal who is irremediably psychologically or behaviorally suffering. There is no such thing as an animal who is so traumatized that he wants to die” (Wionograd, Nathan J.). He believed that there is no reason why animals want to die over a dramatic event that occurs. He feels that just because they are animals that they have no emotions that they are not allowed to feel anything because it is just an animal. They are not like humans that they cannot feel anything over something that is lost or pain. He believes that the shelters where right in killing the animals because, “moreover, there were no standards on how the shelter would make that determination, no objective measures on how it should be applied, no mandatory training or credentials on the part of the staff to do so” (Winograd, Nathan J.). He agreed even if they animal was supposedly going through an event and if others said they were that they could kill the animals. They did not have to have a reason why they could just put it down, because they think it is suffering. He feels that they might feel like they are not going to run toward danger. He states, “the view that animals can be irremediably suffering mentally or psychologically not only flies in the face of every living being’s instinctive will to live, but an animal’s own reaction to the perception that she may be in harm’s way is not to run towards a threat to their life, but to flee it or display aggression as a means of deterring it” (Winograd, Nathan J.). He feels that if an animal is in distressed they are not going to run toward the danger because it is going to cause them more suffering. He believes that animals are not like animals whereas human runs

The last point I would like to make is that the animals are subjected to a long and painful death or inhuman suffering. Some would argue that it is just an animal and they don't feel pain the way humans do. Even if animals can't tell us that they are in pain, we can tell that they are by observing their behavior. The suffering may not only effect the animal being killed, they may also have babies who are now trying to survive without a mother or father.

Death is going to happen to all living creature regardless of anything else. Death is a natural process and it out of the control of humanity. The final and fourth factor, causality, is where casual relationships are often misunderstood because children do not realize the depth of things caused by natural factors such as death (Shortle et al., 1993). For example, the death of a pet, could lead the child feeling guilty and remorseful when they actually had nothing to do with the cause of death (Kaufman & Kaufman, 2006).