[00:00.000] 作曲 : Laurie Anderson
[00:06.510] When Lolabelle got very sick we took her to the hospital.
[00:12.430] We spent a lot of time with vets.
[00:14.546] And they always wanted to give you this speech they'd prepared, about pain.
[00:18.211] Which was, "Of course you don't want her to be in pain.
[00:22.444] And so, we just give her a shot and put her to sleep,
[00:25.448] and then another shot and she stops breathing."
[00:30.412] And every time they'd say that I would say
[00:32.669] "Listen, I know you want to say this,
[00:34.472] but we're not going to do this, so, never mind."
[00:38.095] But they would still try to give the speech anyway.
[00:47.646] I was really worried about this.
[00:49.349] So I called our Buddhist teacher and he said
[00:51.589] "Animals are like people.
[00:55.229] They approach death, and then they back away.
[00:58.721] And it's a process.
[01:01.394] And you don't have the right to take that from them."
[01:07.379] He said "You should just go and get her from the hospital and bring her home."
[01:17.774] Pretty much exactly what your Jewish grandmother would say

.
[01:21.332] "Get some good tranquillizers and get some good food and bring her home. Haha."
[01:43.521] So we went to the hospital and we took Lolabelle home.
[01:49.533] We stayed with her for three days,
[01:51.549] as her breath slowed and then stopped.
[01:57.773] We had learned to love Lola, as she loved us.
[02:01.263] With a tenderness we didn't know we had.