Real journalists wrote and edited this (not AI)—independent, community-driven journalism survives because you back it. Donate to sustain Prism’s mission and the humans behind it. Journalist s.e. smith is perhaps best known for their writing on disability and politics. However, over the course of nearly two decades working in media, they have also developed a body of work focused on what—on the surface—may seem niche: pet loss. In stories for p…