They often died at home in those days. My favorite book, Thomas Wolfe’s beautiful “Look Homeward Angel,” deals with this very sensitively and, I’m afraid, very realistically. As he says, death is messy. There is no way around it and we better get used to it.
You are right, miss m.
Who of us has not blubbered uncontrollably at the scene in “Gone With the Wind” where Rhett will not allow his beloved Bonnie Blue to be taken from the house and buried?
Colmes, and anyone who has not lost a child, is not fit to speak on the subject.