Everything Called In Question: When a Pet is Fatally Ill
After thirteen years together one of our cats was diagnosed with kidney failure. The next four months were nursing and finally accompaniment in death. This raises existential questions: Is Western veterinary practice right when it recommends that incurably ill animals should be put to sleep? How can...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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Concilium
Year: 2021, Issue: 5, Pages: 104-109 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Protection of animals ethics
/ Euthanasia of animals
/ Terminal care
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| IxTheo Classification: | NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics NCH Medical ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Kidney failure
B Health of pets |
| Summary: | After thirteen years together one of our cats was diagnosed with kidney failure. The next four months were nursing and finally accompaniment in death. This raises existential questions: Is Western veterinary practice right when it recommends that incurably ill animals should be put to sleep? How can we decide about the life and death of another creature that cannot unequivocally communicate whether it wants to go on living? What else can we pray for when death is clearly in sight and suffering can no longer be relieved? What happens to the liturgical year in the shadow of illness and death? |
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| ISSN: | 0010-5236 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Concilium
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