re: Euthanasia day at the veterinarian's office

Wait, don't the youth in Asia usually eat dogs...?

Also, if someone is terminally ill and wants to die, there are innumerable ways for him/her to do it via suicide.

You wanna die? Go ahead, just don't be a puss and expect someone else to do it for/to you.

No such thing as 'assisted' suicide. There is suicide, and there is homicide. If I cause your death, whether you want me to or not, it's homicide.

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I never really got why we put dogs down rather than keep treating them. It's sad.

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It's sad, but it's usually done out of love. A suffering animal with no other options is better off dead. So are humans.

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remember that there was a sweet, beautiful gray muzzled Golden Retriever with those sad and empathetic eyes and I figured that it was in line too.

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I know the feeling. My dad got a golden retriever 6 months before I was born. Dog lived till I was 16 yrs old. She got to the point where she could barely walk, couldn't see, hear, nothing. Just layed there mostly in pain from arthritis. Was a great duck dog. My dad loved that dog and he had to finally put her down. Took her into the back yard, petted and hugged her then shot and buried her. Only time I've seen him cry my entire life. I don't think he even cried when his sister died suddenly of a heart issue

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never really got why we can't give people the humane treatment we give dogs at the end of their life.

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Because dogs are better than people

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Veterinarians have the highest suicide rate by profession. It's assumed to be because it's depressing to euthanize your own patients on a daily basis.

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The woman who works the desk at the vet clinic said that she had worked at the clinic long enough to start to see dogs euthanized that they had treated since they were puppies. She said it was really bothering her.

My Dad, Marine lifer and vet of WWII, Korean and Vietnam, is about as mentally tough a guy that you could meet. He had a lot of foxhounds, and would regularly have to put them down as they aged. One day he came to me and said "I'm not doing it any more, I can't stand to do one more" and he has never done one since.

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Veterinarians have the highest suicide rate by profession. It's assumed to be because it's depressing to euthanize your own patients on a daily basis.

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I had always heard that it was dentists who had the highest suicide rate (this isn't a troll post, I've heard this "fact" many many times).

Looks like vets are #4, Dentists #3.



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I got my initial claim from a recent AVMA study.

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When it comes time for our puppers we are going to get one of those vets that comes to the house. My wife and I will be in no shape to drive.

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I understand. My daughter, a Vet does this for some people that has been using her services.