Would it make more sense if they put the body on a table in the parlor, then invited family and friends for a wake?
I’m not being critical. I like Santorum and thank God, I’ve never lost a child. I can only imagine the grief. So, I’m not being hard on the Santorums. I’m just wondering if stuff like this would be detrimental to his candidacy in the General Election. We don’t need an October surprises in 2012. Get it all out there now.
You kinda beat me to the punch.
It hasn’t been that many years ago that was exactly happened, especially in rural America. I’m not that old (well, I don’t think I am, lol) and can remember two funerals that had the viewing in the home
in my childhood.
I guess since both birth and death occurred at home, the whole family participated in the experience. There was no mystery involved in going to a hospital and returning with a baby...or going to a hospital and never returning. It was all a family experience. Maybe the Santorum’s are of that mind set.
As far as sleeping with the child, if it gave them comfort, so be it.