What about the droppings?
Finally, a Mormon blog that tackles the theological questions we really care about — such as, what happens to our pets when they die?
"This might seem like a silly topic but I have never heard about a position from the Church on what happens to animals when they pass on," asks JcDean78."Are animals,like dogs, simply organic machines that are here to be with us while on earth only or since they are alive do they too continue on in some way?"
A lively discussion follows. InTheArmsofSleep offers solace, "We'll be reunited with our animals just as we will be with our family members in the afterlife. I know they have spirits, and I know
they are innocent."It might comfort JcDean78 to hear what my Mormon mother-in-law (she's actually the mother of my ex, but Ms-in-L are forever) told her grandchildren after one of our cats checked out. The righteous, she promised, will be reunited with all their pets at the "Rainbow Bridge" in Heaven.
I guess I've read too much Stephen King and Ambrose Bierce, but that scares the heck out of me. I dream of all those hampsters, hermit crabs, goldfish and pill bugs that will be laying in wait under the Rainbow Bridge — and wake up screaming.
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The answer is simple: All dead creatures will experience nothingness; blissful oblivion. Anyone who has fainted or undergone general anesthesia knows how nice it was to be "switched off." And anyone who tells you anything different is lying in order to comfort you, trying to sell you something (false hope for your tithing dollars), or both.
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