"Good Grief: On Loving Pets\, Here and Her eafter" is an unexpected\, poignant\, and personal account of loving and l osing pets\, exploring the singular bonds we have with our companion anima ls\, and how to grieve them once they&rsquo\;ve passed. E.B. Bartels has h ad a lot of pets&mdash\;dogs\, birds\, fish\, tortoises. As varied a bunch as they are\, they&rsquo\;ve taught her one universal truth: to own a pet is to love a pet\, and to own a pet is also&mdash\;with rare exception&md ash\;to lose that pet in time. But while we have codified traditions to ma rk the passing of our fellow humans\, most cultures don&rsquo\;t have the same for pets.
\nBartels takes us from Massachusetts to Japan\, from ancient Egypt to the modern era\, in search of the good pet death. We mee t veterinarians\, archaeologists\, ministers\, and more\, offering an idio syncratic\, inspiring array of rituals&mdash\;from the traditional (scatte ring ashes\, commissioning a portrait)\, to the grand (funereal procession s\, mausoleums)\, to the unexpected (taxidermy\, cloning). The central les son: there is no best practice when it comes to mourning your pet\, except to care for them in death as you did in life\, and find the space to part icipate in their end as fully as you can. Punctuated by wry\, bighearted a ccounts of Bartels&rsquo\;s own pets and their deaths\, "Good Grief" is a cathartic companion through loving and losing our animal family.
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