Review: Animals of the Hereafter
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 14, 2011
Animals are a mystery. We do not really own them, but because we think we do, they suffer. There's so much we don't know about them. I read this story at the exact real time that a pod of dolphins were being chopped to pieces by humans in Taiji Japan. The animals in this story link to the dolphins in Taiji in my mind because of the topic of death and the mystery surrounding all animals. Animals share three things with us; mind, spirit, body.  I think the animal world, is if anything more spiritual than humanity since we lean more to the mind than to the spirit.But we don't really know this.We can only wonder, "What if?"The humans in this story understand the honour that they receive from having animals in their life. Not so those Japanese fishermen who think they have the right to destroy members of a species which have inhabited the planet for tens of millions of years before humans came down from the trees.This story is poignant but not maudlin. I recommend it.