I read the phrase “Good Death Revolution” a couple times on the Companion Animal Euthanasia Training Academy (CAETA) website before I realized I was staring at a dream coming true! CAETA deserves as much of our assistance and support as we can give for launching this revolution. Ever since I learned that a significant number of pet “euthanasia” are actually dysthanasia, or “bad death”, I’ve thought it was critically needed.
This revolution should go down in history as one of the most transformative in the field of veterinary medicine. CAETA and all its co-workers will deserve to become legendary. You can be among them! If you and your companions have been traumatized in a failed euthanasia, it would be most helpful for you to do all you can to reduce the possibility that others may experience anything like what you experienced. To learn of some of the steps you could take, you may review the “Reform...” page.
Any action you take will provide incentive for the veterinary profession to give this final, sensitive and unique procedure the attention and research it’s not yet received. Schools of veterinary medicine haven’t been able to teach what’s only now finally being researched. While other veterinary procedures can end a precious life unintentionally,, practicing vet’s may have forgotten or never realized that euthanasia is the only procedure to end a life intentionally. That ending can have a potentially devastating side effect; the severing of an intense, long-standing emotional bond. They may have yet to realize how important are endings.
It can be difficult enough to deal with successful euthanasia. Those causing additional, unnecessary distress and/or pain can be even more difficult or even impossible to deal with. You can help end the traumatizing of thousands, if not millions of often disabled and suffering pets who’ve tragically experienced additional unnecessary pain and distress in their final moments...moments that may never to be forgotten and certainly never undone. Your actions may be some of the most rewarding you’ve ever taken, if only because action can be one of the most effective antidotes to despair. Feel free to notify us of your actions and their effects, using the Message Board.
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