Posted by Marilynne Gand (208.5.212.142) on April 04, 2000 at 20:12:51:
In Reply to: www.oprah.com Oprah's website posted by Don M. on September 15, 1998 at 15:37:47:
Dear Oprah,
I would like to say that you are my idol. I love your show and learn so much from it!!! We recently put our 14 year old basset hound to sleep. I am suffering from a tremendous amount of grief. I know that she is in heaven now and God is taking good care of her but every day I wonder if I made the right decision. Why do we put animals to sleep? We don't put people to sleep?
I would like to see a segment on dealing with the death of a pet. This kind of grief is so many times not taken seriously by society as a whole. Maybe a topic on disenfranchise grief - dealing with the death of a pet, miscarriage, death of a former spouse, etc.
Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Marilynne Gand