Is it normal that i'm this upset by animal deaths?
Short version: Animals deaths effect me to a very large extent, I'll have mini funerals for them and cry because of it... Even if I had only known said animal for a short while, IIN?
Long version: Death is always upsetting to me, but it always feels different when you see it on TV/newspapers because you don't usually know the person. You can see it from a different perspective, uninhibited by personal emotions or feelings, but...
When I actually know someone or something that's died I get really upset, really easily. Even insects, more so animals and humans is worst...
For example, recently I found an injured bird, I persuaded my father to let me keep in in the shed until it healed because it couldn't fly or move much...
It had only been there for a day, but I visited it twice and gave it bread and water to see if everything was going alright and it was. But then the next day I found it dead...
I just locked the shed door and bawled to myself in my room until my dad went out and buried it... I had a mini funeral and for the whole night just stayed up to hope there was a good afterlife so it was in a better place... Or at least had died peacefully and painlessly...
IIN? My family think I'm really strange since I only knew the bird for a day...