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Pet Crematorium Plan in Salt Lake City Causes a Stir
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Major Street Pet Services wants to open up a pet crematorium business in Salt Lake City in a historic cottage. Business owners insist that the crematorium would be up to technological standards, meaning the only emissions would be water vapor and carbon dioxide. It would be odorless and "less intrusive than most restaurants."
Cottage owners Earl and Jake Tate hope to provide a service to grieving pet owners that would be much more respectful and sensitive than the landfill. The cottage is aesthetically pleasing on the outside with its trees, flowers and decorative lamps. Pet owners would bring their deceased pet to be cremated behind the funeral home for as little as $100 to $200. Afterward they can gather together in the mourning room and purchase urns and pet figurines.
Salt Lake City residents and local business owners are upset by the idea of having such a service nearby. They are fighting the Tates' business by appealing to the city to get the zoning laws changed or updated, preventing the possibility of having a crematorium in the neighborhood. Zoning law currently prohibits crematoriums from being in funeral homes but doesn't specifically apply to pet services.
The zoning commission must soon make a deciding vote on two related issues: whether to update the city's zoning to allow crematories at funeral homes, and whether to allow the pet crematorium.
Read the full story at Deseret News.
What do you think? Should the Tates move their business elsewhere or does it not really harm anyone? After all, it could be our "perception" of crematoriums that influences our feelings about the issue.
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