Why do people see other people as simple cookie-cutter memes? That attitude used to be laughed at as the douchebaggery that it is. Now it passes for being enlightened and superior.
Oh. I thought you meant literally waving them around. I’m glad I was wrong. But as people have said, everyone grieves differently.
It’s sad to see, but if it helps the OP, I’m fine with it (I also don’t use reddit anymore and haven’t seen much of that here).
There is r/petloss for that. I lost my dog Nike (image link) in 2019, and it devastated me. About a week later, I posted her with this image (ext link: imgur) to petloss.
I don’t think these folks are disgusting for venting about their lost loved ones. It is hard losing a pet. I guess at that time, I wanted someone else in the world to know about her, the life she lived with us, how dearly we loved her, and how much she’s missed. It was a pretty long-winded eulogy. Conciseness was never my strong suit. Different people grieve differently.
But I do believe that you should look for the relevant subs/communities to post about losing a pet and refrain from making that kind of post on those for more general pet posting. At the same time, I think awareness is key. I’d reckon if you’re posting to r/cats or r/dogs instead of r/petloss, you’re probably not aware of it. I tend to assume grieving pet parents aren’t trying to karma farm.
The world is already shitty enough, and I don’t need to bring myself down with that kind of thinking anyway.
11/10 goodest pupper. I’m very sorry she’s no longer with you.
As I mentioned in my comment/others have before me: whatever helps you grieve (obviously within reason). But posting pictures of a pet as you did, I think, is totally reasonable. It’s an honour to the memory of them.
Obituaries in the paper have been a thing for 100’s (1000’s?) of years.
Everyone deals with grief differently, it’s not appropriate to shame people for it.
By spamming pictures of their dead pets over the internet? It’s one thing to discuss their passing, it’s another to post a pic of their corpse.
At the very least, they could place it under a spoiler/NSFW tag.
Oh shit! That’s awful!
I thought they meant pictures of pets from when they were alive. Who even has a picture of their pet’s corpse in the first place?!? Just recalling the moment my 14-year-old dog went limp in my arms when he was put to sleep is enough to make me want to vomit.
While I have seen corpse pictures on forums for cats and dogs, I think I see it more on “exotic” pet forums, like guinea pigs, rats, mice, lizards, snakes, and spiders/insects. It’s distressing regardless, because that was someone’s beloved pet, but also no one needs to see their corpse; a pic of when it was alive is perfectly acceptable when discussing grief. I just don’t see the point of posting a picture of the corpse, it just feels unnecessary.
I have had pets pass away, and I wouldn’t even think of taking a photo. It just feels so weird to me. Im not the OP of this post, but I get what they’re saying.
Because posting pictures of corpses is generally considered insulting to the corpse as well as morbid.
Someone I know who loved her cat in a way that I don’t understand, and I love cats, insisted on showing me a picture of the expensive, elaborate silk-lined coffin she got for her cat with the dead cat lying in it. I… yeah.
It should definitely be marked as NSFW, but different cultures look VERY differently to death, and to pet death as well. It should be marked for that reason, but otherwise the ones I’ve seen are very similar to a human open casket funeral / viewing.
People go to these places to show it because people with the same kind of pets can often relate better than other people. And if it gets upvotes I doubt many people there find it as objectionable.
Hm, while almost all of the pet subreddits I used to visit allowed grief posts (which is what I thought you were complaining about), none seemed to have a problem with people showcasing their pets’ corpses in photos.
Reddit’s moderation must have descended to total dogshit or maybe there’s one mod common to all these pet subreddits that’s just really weird.
It’s terrible. Most of them probably aren’t even real…
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