Choose to market these sterling silver bone post earrings to your customers in two ways; either as a way to honor the furry companions in their lives, or as a talisman to honor the transitory nature of life. Bones are the last earthly traces of the dead, and because they seem to last forever, bones symbolize the indestructible cycle of life and death. In some religious traditions bones represent resurrection, but in others are undertood as mortality and fragility.