Writing from real life

I've been thinking about the dog we recently had to have put down. She was 14 and became really sick, very suddenly. If she had gradually sickened, I might have known we couldn't 'fix' her. I regret that we didn't give her a kind death earlier, as her last two weeks were back and forth to animal hospital and vets, and she always hated vets.

As a fantasy writer, I write about sadness, grief and death often but real life is far more powerful It reminded me that grief is like physical pain. I hope it helps my writing.