Salon.com: Karen Santorum did not have an abortion

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15. I am a hospice nurse. I have seen a lot in the past 6 and a half years.

I have seen many people cuddle up with dead bodies. Bodies of adults and bodies of children and bodies of babies. I have watched children in the home observing this.

I feel a need to defend people here.

I've had families spend the night with the body in the home.

When a mother or a cousin or a sibling cuddling crying in a bed with someone who died I don't yank the body out of their arms. I let them spend time grieving. If that means they needs to spend hours doing this that is what happens. From everything I have learned this is what you do.

I am not the only hospice nurse who has this opinion. I must say that I discussed the santorum incident with colleagues, nurses and social workers we agreed the santorum issue was that he had special privileges allowing him to take the body home. Some people want their loved one to die at home but they couldn't get home in time. I have heard these requests before. Others are not allowed to do this. He was allowed to do it because he is a wealthy politician.

Things sometimes look different in writing than they do when you observe them in the home.