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Posted By: E, Daniel

Sad, yes. But - I'm always struck that people experience the tragedy of an individual horse passing, or person for that matter, who with the benefit of media stories and coverage is somehow more significant to us than all the other lives that end at every moment of the day, often in much more inhumane and distressing fashion.
If Barbaro the family horse dies and is mourned by his owners because of their love for him - I empathize because of my own sense of loss of pets and friends and family, but that's all. That somehow this is significant to us as a society and individuals always weighs heavy on me..... for all the lives so callously disregarded because they never make it onto our television screens at night.
Maybe one day all life with be deemed similarly important and treasured.


Sincerely
Daniel