Firstly, it's was only a horse, for God's sake.
Secondly, what's good for humans should be good enough for horses, right? And we heard that euthanasia by starvation was peaceful, calm, and painless.
So, there you go. I was only wishing Barbaro, a horse, the same type of peaceful, painless, serene death that was orchestrated by lawyers and judges in our fair land.
I remember what happened to Terry, and could not begin to understand how it did ... last breaths ... last hopes .... last chances .... humiliating to her spirit and soul ...
Which is why I, at least, lurked here and have never posted once before ...
You see, I was taken by the dignity of it all ... and the charity ... the willingness to bring ALL forth to save a noble animal ... to fix things ... to find a way to let this creature back out ... fit and fine and ready to show us beauty only he and his kind can bring to us .... we can not mimic it, duplicate it ... pretend it ... it made him valuable to me ... his simple courage humbled me ... he did what needed to be done, and so few of us know how to do that while looking so very, splendidly sure of themselves ...
Of course he was "just a horse" ... but his journey became ours ... in single ways ... individual ways.
Can you understand that?!
Well, it is good enough for animals. Typically, animals who are in pain, refuse to eat. And that is indeed nature's way of quickening death for them.
Leave your sarcasm for those who advocated the death of Terri Schiavo. It has no place in this thread.
I am tired of people injecting the pet peeves in unrelated topics.