Originally posted by Leah S:
My dad dug a grave and when I went to lift him out of my car I saw a little urine and feces on the newspaper. That's when I knew that he had been alive when I put him in my car and he passed while we were digging his grave.
Umm ... Leah ... I hope you take this in the comforting sense that I mean it. You could be wrong here. I am going to be very terse here, which is unusual for me. There are many processes that happen in a body, cat, human, otherwise. Not all of them stop at the moment of death.

I think that you can take heart in knowing that the little one that you described had passed the point of feeling any pain by the time that you had arrived.