sorry to hear that man. i know what its like having a dog dying.
i had a 4 year old golden retriever, my mom took him to the park and a dog walker with an alpha male pit bull was off leash and attacked my dog and crushed the artery in his neck. i wasn't there it was just my mom, i feel bad, she had to put him in the back of the car and get to the vet as fast as possilbe, i don't know if she burned any lights, i won't hold it against her if she didn't.
now we have a new golden retriever from the same breeder, this dog is from the same father as my last one but the mother is the sister of my old dogs mother, if i can recall.
i see a lot of traits in my old dog in the new one. i still miss the old one, but life goes on and the memory lives on through the new one since it would be my old dogs half brother.
go to my profile and you can see a picture of him with me taken in vermont.