Animal loss, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 48 relations: Afterlife, Agency in Mormonism, Animal, Animal euthanasia, Animal mummy, Animal worship, Avery Publishing, Bank of Scotland, Cats in ancient Egypt, Chaplain, Death and culture, Deathbed phenomena, Direct Line, Earth, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Emotion, Emotion in animals, Employment tribunal, Five stages of grief, Françoise Dunand, Grief, Grief counseling, Heaven, Herodotus, Human, International Star Registry, Internet forum, Limbo, Metaphor, Mormonism, Myth, Organism, Paradise, Pet, Pet cemetery, Pet humanization, Pet psychic, Petplan UK, Rainbow Bridge (pets), Reincarnation, Rejuvenation, Religion, Royal Mail, Soul, Support group, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith (book), Theft, Urn.

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Afterlife

The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues to exist after the death of their physical body.

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Agency in Mormonism

Agency (also referred to as free agency or moral agency), in the theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), is "the privilege of choice which was introduced by God the Eternal Father to all of his spirit children in the premortal state".

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Animal

Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Animal euthanasia

Animal euthanasia (euthanasia from εὐθανασία; "good death") is the act of killing an animal humanely, most commonly with injectable drugs.

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Animal mummy

Animal mummification was common in ancient Egypt.

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Animal worship

Animal worship (also zoolatry or theriolatry) is an umbrella term designating religious or ritual practices involving animals.

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Avery Publishing

Avery Publishing is a book publishing imprint of the Penguin Group, founded as an independent publisher in 1976 by Rudy Shur and partners, and purchased by Penguin in 1999.

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Bank of Scotland

The Bank of Scotland plc (Scottish Gaelic: Banca na h-Alba) is a commercial and clearing bank based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is part of the Lloyds Banking Group.

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Cats in ancient Egypt

In ancient Egypt, cats were represented in social and religious scenes dating as early as 1980 BC.

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Chaplain

A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution (such as a hospital, prison, military unit, intelligence agency, embassy, school, labor union, business, police department, fire department, university, sports club), or a private chapel.

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Death and culture

Death is dealt with differently in cultures around the world, and there are ethical issues relating to death, such as martyrdom, suicide and euthanasia.

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Deathbed phenomena

Deathbed phenomena refers to a range of experiences reported by people who are dying.

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Direct Line

Direct Line is an insurance company based in Bromley, England.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (July 8, 1926 – August 24, 2004) was a Swiss-American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies, and author of the internationally best-selling book, On Death and Dying (1969), where she first discussed her theory of the five stages of grief, also known as the "Kübler-Ross model".

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Emotion

Emotions are physical and mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure.

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Emotion in animals

Emotion is defined as any mental experience with high intensity and high hedonic content. Animal loss and Emotion in animals are animals and humans and pets.

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Employment tribunal

Employment tribunals are tribunal public bodies in both England and Wales and Scotland that have statutory jurisdiction to hear disputes between employers and employees.

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Five stages of grief

According to the model of the five stages of grief, or the Kübler-Ross model, those experiencing suddent grief following an abrupt realization (shock) go through five emotions: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

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Françoise Dunand

Françoise Dunand (born 1934) is a French historian, professor emeritus of the University of Strasbourg.

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Grief

Grief is the response to the loss of something deemed important, particularly to the loss of someone or some living thing that has died, to which a bond or affection was formed.

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Grief counseling

Grief counseling is a form of psychotherapy that aims to help people cope with the physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and cognitive responses to loss.

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Heaven

Heaven, or the heavens, is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as deities, angels, souls, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or reside.

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Herodotus

Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.

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Human

Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.

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International Star Registry

The International Star Registry (ISR) is an organization founded in 1979 for the purpose of giving the general public the novelty of unofficially naming stars.

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Internet forum

An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.

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Limbo

In Catholic theology, Limbo (limbus, or, referring to the edge of Hell) is the afterlife condition of those who die in original sin without being assigned to the Hell of the Damned.

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.

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Mormonism

Mormonism is the theology and religious tradition of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity started by Joseph Smith in Western New York in the 1820s and 1830s.

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Myth

Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.

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Organism

An organism is defined in a medical dictionary as any living thing that functions as an individual.

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Paradise

In religion, paradise is a place of everlasting happiness, delight, and bliss.

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Pet

A pet, or companion animal, is an animal kept primarily for a person's company or entertainment rather than as a working animal, livestock, or a laboratory animal. Animal loss and pet are animals and humans and pets.

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Pet cemetery

A pet cemetery is a cemetery for pets. Animal loss and pet cemetery are animals and humans.

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Pet humanization

Pet humanization is the practice in pet culture of treating companion animals with a level of care, attention and luxury relatively higher than for the average domesticated animal. Animal loss and pet humanization are animals and humans.

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Pet psychic

A pet psychic is a person who claims to communicate by psychic means with animals, either living or dead. Animal loss and pet psychic are pets.

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Petplan UK

Pet Plan Limited, trading as Petplan, is a London-based pet insurance company.

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Rainbow Bridge (pets)

The Rainbow Bridge is the theme of several works written first in 1959, then in the 1980s and 1990s, that speak of an other-worldly place where pets go upon death, eventually to be reunited with their owners. Animal loss and Rainbow Bridge (pets) are animal death, animals and humans and pets.

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Reincarnation

Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.

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Rejuvenation

Rejuvenation is a medical discipline focused on the practical reversal of the aging process.

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Religion

Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.

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Royal Mail

The Royal Mail Group Limited, trading as Royal Mail, is a British postal service and courier company.

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Soul

In many religious and philosophical traditions, the soul is the non-material essence of a person, which includes one's identity, personality, and memories, an immaterial aspect or essence of a living being that is believed to be able to survive physical death.

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Support group

In a support group, members provide each other with various types of help, usually nonprofessional and nonmaterial, for a particular shared, usually burdensome, characteristic.

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Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith (book)

Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith is a book compiling selected sermons and portions of sermons and sundry teachings of Joseph Smith, the first prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

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Theft

Theft is the act of taking another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.

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Urn

An urn is a vase, often with a cover, with a typically narrowed neck above a rounded body and a footed pedestal.

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See also

Animal death

• Animal loss
• Carrion
• Cetacean stranding
• Drift whale
• Exploding animals
• Extinct animals
• Horse burial
• Mass mortality event
• Predation
• Rainbow Bridge (pets)
• Roadkill
• Taxidermy
• Whale fall
• Wulfsen horse burial

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_loss

Also known as A farm upstate, Death of a pet, Lost pet, No Pets In Heaven, Pet death, Pet loss.