Goodbye, goofy kitty.
Jan. 10th, 2009 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsWe buried Dinah this morning, after Omaha came home from her business trip. It was a quiet ceremony. I'd dug a hole in the back yard, four feet deep, and taken the little cardboard coffin out and put in in the living room with the little altar we'd set up-- candle, photo, her toys, things like that.
Our friend Rhea came over and helped, since she knows more about ritual than I do about programming, and after a respectful time where everyone said their last wishes for her, we all petted the body one last time. Kouryou-chan commented on how cold she felt-- well, she'd been in the freezer since Tuesday. Dinah looked so peaceful like that, curled up, and I felt so sad, because I knew she wasn't going to wake up, and that just hurt me so much.
We buried her in the back yard, and said goodbye, and... that was that. I'm such a sentimental wreck.
Our friend Rhea came over and helped, since she knows more about ritual than I do about programming, and after a respectful time where everyone said their last wishes for her, we all petted the body one last time. Kouryou-chan commented on how cold she felt-- well, she'd been in the freezer since Tuesday. Dinah looked so peaceful like that, curled up, and I felt so sad, because I knew she wasn't going to wake up, and that just hurt me so much.
We buried her in the back yard, and said goodbye, and... that was that. I'm such a sentimental wreck.
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Date: 2009-01-10 09:27 pm (UTC)this illustrates the depth of your ability to care and to love. even pointy furry things. you gave her a good life, with the longterm endcare that other people might not have cared to do. no one can do more than their best, and from this, YOUR best seems pretty good to me.
I miss every one of my bewiskered roomies who have gone on. Doesn't stop me from doing it again, after a while.
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Date: 2009-01-10 11:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-11 04:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-11 05:18 am (UTC)When this ball-o-fluff-n-angry-n-purr that's currently sitting in my lap reaches her end, I'll have her cremated. I couldn't do a ceremony like that. I'd say my goodbyes in the vet's office, at the end.
Bleh. Not the most pleasant thing to be thinking about. And again, I'm very sorry you're going through it...
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Date: 2009-01-11 07:59 pm (UTC)*HUG*