If humans could make dogs immortal, should we?

[QueenAshy]

Originally Posted by Charu

I had a cat named Baby.

She was an amazing cat. She loved me and always went to me when I was growing up to pet her, play with her, lick my hair.

She was an amazing cat, if just a bit of a bully when it came to other cats, but she was a super sweetheart to everyone in my family.

One day though, we noticed she was getting lumps. Soon after, we learned she wasn't eating. We tried our best to figure out what was going on, but one vet visit was enough to tell us the worst, she had cancer.

We should've put her down there, we didn't. We took her back home, and tried to make her comfortable. It was obvious she wasn't though. She would sit in a corner, away from everyone, not going to me, still not eating. It got to a point in which she was just... pure bones due to her cancer and her just not eating.

...After 2-3 weeks, we finally decided to put her down, but she may as well have been dead those weeks. She wasn't happy, she wasn't meowing, and she certainly wasn't showing the love she showed before.

If it were me, and someone held a gun to my head saying “off your pet or you’re gonna die”

I would probably go with the best and most natural option, releasing them in a forest so they can spend their last days in piece and surrounded by the dirt from which they came; instead of in a man-made vets office, with spiky needles going in them, bright lights shining in their face, and being forced to lay down on a hard bed for their final moments.

I wouldn’t wanna go in a hospital either. If anything, I’d ride a boat out into the middle of the ocean, and fire a gun through the side of my head.

Hope this provides some insight…