A personal tidbit- In October 2014, my spouse and I made the difficult decision to put our 18yr old orange cat to “sleep”. The day he died, he was gone by 9am and I was back at work for a meeting at 11:30am. At that time in my career, I had exhausted all my earned time off. I remember a colleague jokingly saying, “where were you this morning” and I burst into tears and said, “my cat died this morning”! The room went silent, and in attempt to make a joke the same colleague sa