Bill Allows Pets To Be Buried With Owners

You’ll never have to be far from your beloved pet if you live in Massachusetts and this bill becomes law.

“For families who have pets they’re a very high priority,” says Cheryl Traversi of the Animal Rescue League of Boston, which operates Pine Ridge Pet Cemetery in Dedham, one of the nation’s oldest.

“This is your daily companion. It makes sense that you would want to be buried with your animal.”

But at a State House hearing Tuesday on a bill that would make us the fifth state to allow pet burials alongside their humans, the idea had its critics.

“God created human beings in God’s image, and it cannot be compromised in burial,” said Stan Kaplan of the Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts.

The bill’s legislative sponsor claims no cemetery would be forced to accept animal burials.

But, Rep. Nick Collins, a Democrat from Boston, said, “There are people, many people, who have a very close relationship with their pets, consider them part of the family, and we think this should be an option on the table.”

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.