Both suffer, only they do so in different dimensions of the same event, and in this way they enter into the depth of human loss most fully. (religion-online.org)
There is also the assumption by many that pet loss should not hurt as much as human loss, because humans are supposedly more important than pets. (sunnysidevet.com)
We are directed instead to the church that meets a very ordinary world, a world marked by human loss and human hospitality. (religion-online.org)