Doesn't matter, the age of the deceased. And I spent "several hours" at the funeral with my mom, of which a few moments was saying goodbye, giving her a kiss, and a hug and crying over her.
Probably the same amount of relative time was spent saying goodbye to the unborn child. "Several hours" of funeral, and the goodbyes took seconds.
And yet, you want to rip Santorum, but not me. Odd.
The “overnight” you are referring to actually happened in the hospital. The baby died, and the Santorums stayed with him in their hospital room until the morning.
That is when they took him to show the family prior to the funeral.
When my daughter was declared brain dead, we brought her siblings along with other family members into her room to say goodbye.
We spent the night with her.
There was cuddling, holding, and crying of course.
Was this creepy and sick? Are we necrophiles?