That’s understandable, too, isn’t it? I would not look at my father when he died at home. He had medical equipment still attached to his body from the EMS workers and I refused to look. Neither did my mom. We also refused to look at the body bag being taken out of the house. We saw him the next day at the funeral parlor. He then looked like the person I knew.
I would not look at my father when he died at home.
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Very understandable! Tubes and wires and equipment and agony are not what you want to remember.
With newborns and late miscarriages, the babies are dressed in tiny clothes and blankets and the parents are given as much time as they want in a comfortable - non-hospital - room; so, like seeing your father as you knew him the next day.