Beautiful, Won. Thank you for these contributions. And please accept my condolences; I know what grief you must feel. Our boxer, Beau, will soon be 12 -- a great age for a boxer, and I dread losing him.

Regarding the notion that animals have no souls and no place in Heaven, C.S. Lewis remarked that we really do not know that animals, or at least the higher ones like simians and the ones we make pets of, have no souls. Indeed, he thought it more likely that they do and that they might have as good a chance of going to heaven as we do. And he also thought that maybe one of the responsibilities of humans was to make our animals more like us.