While I never have heard of someone taking a dead baby home, I know several folks who have lost newborns and had family come into the room to share the grief with parents and young siblings. At first I thought it was creepy. But after having two kids of our own I can understand it more.
Also, this is not something anyone does without the advice of a counselor. I am sure there were folks from the hospitall that helped them through this.
Unusual for sure. But I would not want to walk in those shoes.
Grief causes people to do things that seem strange to others not experiencing it. Been there (relatively speaking - not this scenario in particular and would not want to).
But Skeletor needs a shunning. Any decent person should flat refuse to appear with him on TV or anywhere else. His ‘apology’ is BS.
1. He was in a state of grief. What is weird in a normal state didn’t seem weird at the time. And there’s the expectation or promise of “bringing the baby home”. He did. It was just dead.
2. The “reborn” babies seem weirder to me, making dolls of the dead kids.
3. The women who make baby dolls and then treat them as real babies is frankly way crazier. Babying dogs is only slightly less crazy.
This is second time I’ve read of a family taking a stillborn neonate home for time with the family. Just guessing, I think it brings the reality of the baby home to any siblings, acknowledges the baby as a member of the family, and brings some emotional closure.
I understand the Santorums completely. There was a miscarriage in my family. Didn’t get a chance to say hello or goodbye.
Colmes is the dregs.
I recently watched the first filmed version of “A Christmans Carol.” The actors who played Bob Cratchit did an incredibly good job. At the end of the Christmas future part, “BOB” comes home tonthe family after looking where “Tiny Tim” is to be buried. He greets the family, and their console him, then cheered up he goes up to the bedroom, where we see the dead child lying in the bed, and he grieves over him. Scrooge, looking on with Death, is profoundly moved, and I must say that I was also. But this is how the dead once were treated, are still treated in Muslim countries, where the bodies were was by the family, and wrapped in a shroud before burial, and quickly buried. We try to airbrush death, from the scene, and now no longer even bury our dead, but put them into an oven, to be consumed by the flames.
Colmes needs a serious wake up call to the back of the head with a lead pipe. Put the mutant atrocity out of his misery.