What an asshole.

wow. what an asshole/loser/dumbass/fag.

I wasnt at all saying that this guy wasnt hurt by it.. i am saying I dont care who it is you dont tell me that your cat is almost as bad as my little brother dying.. an 18 year old boy who was 8 days from his 19th brithday and in his senoir year in high school who has a rare defect in his brain but was perfectly healthy up until the point that he died. He was healthy always so they never knu he had the defect in his brain.. he goes off to school and drops dead when he was perfectly fine and im crying to u about it and u tell me that its almost mine u ALMOST as bad as your cat dying!!! NO FML!! U cant tell me that i shuddnt be pissed.. i dnt care how much u love pets.. even if ur a pet person and u have a dog that youve had since u were 3 and he got shot by ur neighbor and someone comes to you and says.. well thats almost as bad as when i lost my gunnie pig 5 years ago!! you would be pissed.. thats how i felt.. so thanks very much .. and i see he inst crazy there are plenty of people out here who are just like him. you dont tell someone that... especially when it jus happened!

there are obviously many people here contradicting the op and bringing their own stories from experience, demonstrating that this is clearly a subjective subject. individuals grieve in different ways and to different degrees, and we do not have the right or ability to judge the pain of others.

I fail to see how people can grow to love animals more than certain people, sure you can grow fond of an animal and the way it acts, but you will never have a conversation with it. It is beyond me.

Tbh, if you see someone EVERY day and EVERY night, you become very...attached. now, he said "lost", which can either mean it died or it was just...lost. Like, running off or something. When my cat died, it had a greater impact then my great-gran who died the week after. I really didn't like that Christmas. Actually, it was the Christmas just gone.

But I still support the OP here. Any sane person would choose to keep a sibling, someone you live with, and someone that does more than eats and craps, and someone that is flesh and blood, not just something she can get a new one of from the local pound.

people on here are just like your friend- wrong. Death is way too touchy to be exposing on fml to b prodded at. Perhaps your friend meant his empathy for you is almost as strong as the feelings he had about his cat's death.

ppl are sooo gonna hate me for this. but i would cry if my dog or cat were to die. but i would not even shed a tear if my sister dies. i think i would actualy see her corpse, say " heh karma is a bitch" leave and not even participate at her funeral... call me an insesetive bitch if you want to. but thats my honest opinion...

If my sister died, I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror. Me and my sister are extremely close, even though she's 6 years older. We look almost exactly the same (well, that's wwhat everyone tells us). I would sob for forever and a day if my sister died. I wish I could say that I want to die first so I eouldn't have to go through the pain, but then she would have to go through the pain of my death, so I'm not sure what to do. I think I like my sister more than she likes me though lol.