A New Law Now Allows Humans To Be Buried With Their Pets
You know when you look over at your pet, who is doing something adorable, and all you can think is I love you to death? Now, you can! As long as you live in New York, that is. The law in New York has recently changed to allow pets to be buried alongside their humans.
Humans have a special bond with their pets; it's one of the few types of relationships built on unconditional love. Pets have nothing but love for their owners, and, accidents on the floor aside, people love their pets with all their hearts too.
Pets are members of our families, so why shouldn't they be able to be buried alongside us?
In the past, if people wanted to be buried with their pets, they had to be interred in a pet cemetery.
Now, though, the law in New York has changed, allowing humans to have their pets buried in human cemeteries with them.
The law doesn't just extend to cats and dogs; pretty much any kind of pet can be buried with their owners.
However, religious cemeteries and individual cemeteries are exempt from the law and may decline to allow pets to be buried there.
In the past, people may have had to sneak the remains of their pets into cemeteries in order to have them informally buried with them. The law change in New York will prevent this and reduce the stress on living family members trying to carry out their deceased loved ones' wishes to be buried with their pets.
Pets are a part of our families, so why shouldn't they be able to rest among the rest of their family—human or not?
Hopefully, other places will follow suit, so our families can stay united forever!
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