Is it weird to make your own morgue?

My beloved pet died Friday just after midnight (and thank you to everyone who gave advice and tried to help..it was very sweet of you all) and I have not had the chance to bury it due to too much in the schedule so I made my own morgue by wrapping him in a shroud, putting him in an airtight "coffin" and then placing him in my freezer....I didn't want him to rot and now my fiancee says I am a lil nutty to do it. Asked by MitsuHadTheBaby 48 months ago Similar questions: weird make morgue Pets.

No You are NOT nutty. You are dealing with things the best way you know how to deal with them. My personal opinion is that pets are a much a part of us as people are and should be treated as such.

I personally helped plan and participated in my next door neighbors dog's funeral. And it went identical to a persons funeral with people in attendance and everything. So if she was crazy I guess the dozen people who attened the funeral was just as crazy.

Businessmen, police officers, office personel, computer repair people, truck drivers, you know, the run of the mill crazy people. You do need to plan the final funeral. It will not be easy.

But it has to be done. And I think you know that. I am so sorry for your loss.

I have all dogs and I have went through some personal heartache myself so I do understand. If you need help in ANY way just email me. For every dog I have lost I burry them in the back yard with a regular granite tombstone with their name engraved on it, date of birth and death and a paw print.

Guess I am crazy too huh? Stay with it, your fine. If you need help with the final proceedings let me know and God Bless..

I worked in the funeral business for years and a lot of people asked us to help with their deceased pets. You are not in the least bit weird. Pets very quickly become part of the family and the love that we feel for them is very real.

They love us for us and don’t expect anything in return but love and they never tell us that we’re nutty. (Well our cat looks at me sometimes like she thinks that I’m nutty but she never says it) Our cat is 12 and I know that even though she seems healthy now her health could break at any time and it worries me. I am retired and spend a lot of time by myself because my wife still works and the cat is my sole company during the day so when she goes she will actually have a casket.

I have helped people bury everything from lizards to horses and the grief that I have seen is just as real as the grief for grandma and the death of a pet leaves a huge hole in our lives. You are dealing with your grief the way that you need to deal with it and that is what matters. Your fiancée is wrong.

You are not weird you just loved your pet and they should be happy to be engaged to such a loving person. It is the person who throws the dead pet out for the garbage men to pick up the worries me. Sources: my opinion .

Nothing weird at all about it. Humans can become awfully attached to their pets. Wanting to mourn them in death is a very common, very normal thing.

I’ve mourned each of the seven of my cats who have died, since I’ve been very attached to each one of them in different ways. Freezing the remains until you can hold a proper burial isn’t anything stranger than what we do with human remains while waiting on final disposition of the remains. When my daughter left for college, her cat, the only one of the many that she had selected, took ill about a month later.

Our vet sent us to a vet who specialized in feline oncology. Before the surgery, the vet told us that odds were 95% in her favor, since 95% of the time the cancer would be operable. Of course, Red had the 5% inoperable kind.

Our daughter was real good about us not wanting her friend to suffer. But, she wouldn't tell us what she wanted us to do with the remains. So, we gave in and have her remains in a small, silver urn.

Three years later, my daughter still doesn't want to hear about it, so we keep the urn in a quiet, out of the way place in our bedroom. You are a kind, compassionate person. I am sorry at your loss.

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I’m sorry for your loss First that’s not nutty, just human. I’m sorry for your loss. My suggestion is to contact a vet or an emergency animal treatment clinic.

They have arrangements for cremation. You’ll have the choice or getting the ashes back or letting the service care for them. The latter is a bit cheaper as they do a mass cremation.

When my daughters corgi died we scattered his ashes on the lawn he loved to roll on and put the rest with a rose bush ("Everlasting Love" is the rose name) As for your fiancee, I'd say to him the food isn’t contaminated, people need space and activities to mourn, and he should be damn happy to have such a caring person around.

No. Depending upon what you plan on doing w/ him. I did the same w/ my dead cat because it was winter and the ground was frozen.

Eventually I thawed the ground with charcoal and buried her. Leaving your pet in the freezer forever though might be construed as a lil strange. Or you could build a funeral pyre, but you need a pretty big fire depending upon the size of the animal.

Whatever you do good luck to you and all your pets of the future.

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