<div>I understand how people could have been offended by "Cremation" post, and I fully understand why for sensitivity reasons the moderators tried to reject it (accidents happen and the moderators are only human too). </div>
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<div>However, it is important to understand that what might seem horrifying for one person, can be cathartic for another. Many cultures celebrated the passing of their loved ones with funeral pyres, take then end of the film "The Return of the Jedi", made for children, when they create a pyre for Anakin Skywalker. I agree a how-to guide might not have been best for mass distribution, but I can also understand how the drooler who posted it was just trying to share what to them was a beautiful and cathartic personal goodbye to their basset.</div>
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<div>I'm appalled by the idea of open-casket viewings, but I know many people who find seeing their loved one for the last time in their coffin to be cathartic and not at all repellent.<br clear="all"><br>No one wants to think about loosing a hound, or a loved on, but it happens and we all deal with grief differently. I'm sorry for the droolers this upset, but I hope the responses don't scare off the drooler who posted it just because of differences of opinion.</div>
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<div>Brenda- Momslave to Copper and Elphaba, just trying to keep the peace.</div>