autumnal
Enlightened
- Feb 4, 2020
- 1,950
Just thought I'd suggest this here in response to a number of posts asking about pets and suicide.
If it would be too upsetting (or suspicious) for you to totally surrender your pets before suicide, but you also don't want to risk them starving or escaping if you suicide with them in the house, then perhaps you could place them into a boarding kennels or cattery for a few days either side of your attempt date?
You can pretend to the staff that you're going on holiday (or moving house, or fumigating), and make sure you leave both your own contact details and also the contact details for an emergency contact. That way, if you suicide and the staff can't contact you at the end of the stay, your emergency contact will be reached instead. That person doesn't have to know about your suicide plans, they just have to be someone you know will either take care of your pet in your absence/death or help rehome your pet in accordance with what your wishes would be. Or you could further explain this in a note that you leave addressed to that person.
Obviously this requires a little bit of money for the boarding fees, but if you can afford this then it's surely a worthwhile expense. Plus it means your pet won't witness your death, if that's something you think would traumatise them. It also means there is no risk of permanently surrendering your pet and then backing out and being unable to recover them, which I can imagine would feel absolutely devastating.
Hope this idea is useful
If it would be too upsetting (or suspicious) for you to totally surrender your pets before suicide, but you also don't want to risk them starving or escaping if you suicide with them in the house, then perhaps you could place them into a boarding kennels or cattery for a few days either side of your attempt date?
You can pretend to the staff that you're going on holiday (or moving house, or fumigating), and make sure you leave both your own contact details and also the contact details for an emergency contact. That way, if you suicide and the staff can't contact you at the end of the stay, your emergency contact will be reached instead. That person doesn't have to know about your suicide plans, they just have to be someone you know will either take care of your pet in your absence/death or help rehome your pet in accordance with what your wishes would be. Or you could further explain this in a note that you leave addressed to that person.
Obviously this requires a little bit of money for the boarding fees, but if you can afford this then it's surely a worthwhile expense. Plus it means your pet won't witness your death, if that's something you think would traumatise them. It also means there is no risk of permanently surrendering your pet and then backing out and being unable to recover them, which I can imagine would feel absolutely devastating.
Hope this idea is useful
