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The 3 worst things you can say after a pet dies, and what to say instead

  • Written by Brian N. Chin, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Trinity College
The 3 worst things you can say after a pet dies, and what to say insteadLoss of a pet falls into what researchers call disenfranchised grief in which the pain is often minimized or discounted.Claudia Luna/iStock via Getty Images Plus

I saw it firsthand after my cat Murphy died earlier this year. She’d been diagnosed with cancer just weeks before.

She was a small gray tabby with delicate paws who, even during...

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