Euthanasia
I sometimes wonder if I lose touch of what euthanasia really means. I have a job where I have to make difficult decisions about the lives of animals in the animal shelter that I work at. I've noticed over the years that my views on euthanaisa have changed tremendously. Seven years ago, I used to tell myself that there was absolutely no way that I could take a position where I would have to make life and death decisions for animals in our care. Now, I'm making decisions about animals being euthanized weekly, sometimes even daily. Some weeks are easier than others, but I have learned something about myself. That I'm fairly logical, or at least more logical than many of the staff and volunteers that I work with. I'm constantly faced with people questioning the decisions that I have made, and many of these questions are very much emotionally-based, many with our critial thinking applied. I used to be more emotional about euthanasia decisions when I was younger, which brings me to the question... Am I being densitized and am I losing touch with what euthanasia used to mean to me or am I growing seing the world differently now. AF