Welcome to the Food For Thought Podcast, giving you the tools and resources you need to live

according to your own values of compassion and wellness, joyfully, healthfully, deliciously

and sustainably. Today's episode is pet trusts and bequests planning for the care of our animals.

Before we get to that topic, my name is Colleen Patrick Goodrow. You can find me at JoyfulVegan.com

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join other supporters by going to patreon.com slash Colleen Patrick Goodrow to become a patron. Hi,

everyone. I hope you are doing fabulously well. I think it goes without saying that this has been

an incredible two years during this pandemic filled with twists and turns and disappointments and

loss and the need to be flexible and resilient. And hopefully what has come out of it, one of the

silver linings, hopefully is an awareness about the fragility of life and the inevitability of death.

Now, I don't think we needed a pandemic to teach us that because life has always been fragile and

death has always been looming and many of us already live our lives in such a way that we express

gratitude, feel gratitude for the life we have. But I think any great catastrophe that happens where

we're all affected and we all have been affected. It's a pandemic. Pan means all literally means

everyone we have all been affected by this. It certainly drives it home. And this idea of death

looming and us being grateful for the life we have right now here and now is a topic that

philosophers and artists and musicians for thousands of years have been reminding us of that we

will die. Not to depress us, but to inspire us to live the most fulfilling lives possible,

to feel the most alive while we're here. And one way to appreciate life more is to remember that

we will die. Memento Mori, right, that so goes the Latin phrase. It's a concept that the Stoics

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