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Since pets are being encouraged among homes for health and therapeutic reasons, then there needs to be a better understanding of how they may impact a person’s point of view on life and death. There have been both positive and negative relationships found with health and day to day activities to whether or not someone was a pet owner. Differing lifestyles often result in differing views of life and its ending. If there is a negative impact, that does not mean people should no longer have house pets, but to have an awareness of how to handle the way they influence your points of view. This study will be looking at an individual’s metacognition regarding how owning or losing a pet may have impacted their existential thinking capacity and how they process grief and mortality using qualitative data.