My condolences

How did it happen that many people (Americans???) flush fish down the toilet?
Just bury it, like you would any other dead pet.
- I used to bury my pets until my family got mad
  
  You’re supposed to wait until the pets are dead.
  
  It's time to flush my 5-ton (11.000-pound) pet elephant down the toilet 😢
  
  Did you wait for them to die before ?
- Uhh, my roommate fed his dead fish to my tarantula.
  
  The ciiiirrrrrcle of lifffffeeeee
  
  Continuous ecosystem, why not
- Maybe I'm alone on this, but my family used to put dead birds, squirrels,... found on our terrain in the trash... I really got furious and said that those were living beings and they deserve proper burial even if it's some random animal found in the backyard...
  The only way to make them understand what It means was to say: "Don't worry, I will also put your dead body in a trash bin".
  
  That's fine, put me in the trash. Reverence for dead bodies is weird. They aren't living, they will never be living again, they are empty husks of meat. The only reason to bury them or do anything else with them is to avoid the spreading of rot and disease. Putting them in the trash is just as acceptable as throwing out that 2 month old cooked beef you forgot about in the back of the fridge.
  
  The ground is clay here. You dig that hole.
  
  Don’t worry, I will also put your dead body in a trash bin
  I've seen it done in rural areas. Though it was less a trash bin, and more a trash pile in the back yard.
- I don't know. I tried it with a salmon once, but I had to call the plumber.
  
  Buried a fish under a tree once, fuckin dog had that shit dug up in 5 minutes and was rolling around in it.
  
  So that’s why the chinook are struggling.
- It might be a Simpsons did it thing. Then finding Nemo probably popularized it further with the "all drains lead to the ocean" scene.
  
  It's older than the Simpsons for sure. Flushing your (mostly/presumed) dead pets down the toilet was how the urban legends of alligators in the NYC sewers came about...
  
  It's all pipes Jerry!
- Maybe it's an apartment thing?
  
  It’s cultural but I don’t know why. Probably to avoid smells from dead fish.
- Just _____ it, like you would any other dead pet.
  
  ಠ_ಠ

Imagine having a nice, relaxing work poo and suddenly the next stall is full of fish mourners

We, a developer team, had a fish at work. Being developers it was a Beta fish. And, of course, we named it Masta.

Kinda in the same vein: I was taking an emergency dump at a Walmart. There was a person in the stall next to me taking a dump as well.
Some time passes and a Walmart employee knocks and says "maintenance, any one in here?" And before I can respond the guy next to me let's out a massive loud as hell fart and the walmart employee without missing a beat says "take your time".
- Clean up in isle 3
  
  And 2, and 4...

If I was in the next stall I would have started singing Hallelujah
- The 4th the 5th, the 6th the 7th, the 8th the 9th, the 10th the 11th!
  Hallelujah.
  Hallelujah.