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Originally Posted by wrickem
The best advice I got when our 15 year old pup reached his end last year was "1 week too early is better than 1 day too late".
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Do you like that advice applied to yourself? How do you know it's "too late"?
An ill living creature is not a broken device. The only "quality of life" you are entitled to judge about is yours.
That's providing life quality by killing is bullshit: you can't improve the non-existing. Regarding your own benefit, "Why do people kill? For a simple reason: they want to improve the situation. But that just doesn't happen." (from a movie, a man killed his wife but another woman started to threaten him to marry her)
Regarding bad times... "Life is pain." ("The Last Boy Scout" movie) There's no good times without those. You take them
for better or worse, don't you? Giving up is the last(!) thing you can do. But the worst thing to do is finding excuses.
Reality is neutral. It's your attitude that makes it pleasant or not. You can feel for your pet but enjoy it's being with you. Selfish? What about killing to save yourself from discomfort and your holy wallet from expenses? What's good for the pet? Ask it. If it wants to go down or stay with you no matter what.