I agree with you, in the sense that death is harder on those left behind than it is on the person passing. As some others have said, the animals themselves are probably not suffering nearly as much as I am over this.

Still, death to me is more than a cruel word. It's a cruel thing. All social animals are programmed to become attached to others. Losing the attachment is just built-in pain. A little dose of cruelty from the universe. Watch a doe trying to revive a death fawn if you want to see pain.