Is this a sign of mental illness or just a strategy on her part ?

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answer:You’re not overreacting, you are overly critical. You don’t like that she tried to cremate it? What would you suggest she should have done? Dump it in the trash? Leave it out for the vultures and flies and other carrion eaters? Sounds to me like she was trying her best to honor her dog. And two incidents of burning things over a ten year period is not a pattern or practice.

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