Comments on: More about Isaac http://www.juliecarter.net/blog/2009/06/more-about-isaac/ Surviving is Underrated Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:58:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Anne Gibert http://www.juliecarter.net/blog/2009/06/more-about-isaac/comment-page-1/#comment-2462 Anne Gibert Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:05:47 +0000 http://www.juliecarter.net/blog/2009/06/more-about-isaac/#comment-2462 As long as your sense of humor doesn't die there's hope for everything else. And it clearly hasn't died. That kind of cancer is incurable. We all have to die of something. The cat had loving owners. Lots of cats don't. You did good. As long as your sense of humor doesn’t die there’s hope for everything else. And it clearly hasn’t died.

That kind of cancer is incurable. We all have to die of something. The cat had loving owners. Lots of cats don’t. You did good.

]]> By: mary paddock http://www.juliecarter.net/blog/2009/06/more-about-isaac/comment-page-1/#comment-2461 mary paddock Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:18:40 +0000 http://www.juliecarter.net/blog/2009/06/more-about-isaac/#comment-2461 I don't think we can help the self-blame thing in the face of death, be it human or animal. Death always feels like failure and failures must be blamed on someone and we generally choose ourselves. I know you'll only drive yourself crazy with the what-ifs. As a pet owner with multiple pets, I've walked this path myself. Here's what I've learned for whatever it's worth--we do the best we can with what we're handed at any given point in life and that's all we can do. Issac died, well cared-for, knowing love and compassion. That was a lot, Julie. You have my sympathies. PS. We have a feline Isaac too. I don’t think we can help the self-blame thing in the face of death, be it human or animal. Death always feels like failure and failures must be blamed on someone and we generally choose ourselves. I know you’ll only drive yourself crazy with the what-ifs. As a pet owner with multiple pets, I’ve walked this path myself. Here’s what I’ve learned for whatever it’s worth–we do the best we can with what we’re handed at any given point in life and that’s all we can do. Issac died, well cared-for, knowing love and compassion. That was a lot, Julie. You have my sympathies.

PS. We have a feline Isaac too.

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