I personally think it's a bit macabre, but it's not really my place to say how someone should or shouldn't grieve.

Death photography to be very common in the Victorian era.

Except when he chose to make it public business by using it during a political campaign. It's not like some paparazzi snapped a photo. He drew attention to it himself and used it as proof of his pro-life credentials in 2005 and again during the 2008 election cycle.

Again, I find it odd. Not in his shoes so I can't say how I'd react.

EDIT--Thanks mookie. That first photograph is going to give me nightmares.

The truth is fine. Your opinion is fine. Your confusing one for the other is not.

Steve's right on IMO.

There's nothing wrong with bringing a dead loved one home for visitation. When my uncle died my Grandmother held visitation in her living room and refused to leave him at a funeral home. Before funeral homes became popular, people did exactly that, and would often hold wakes/funerals in their own houses.

It seems the only people who think this is crazy are those who already have a beef with Santorum because of political reasons.

To be honest, I don't like this anymore than he does. I'm just aware that my opinion is only my opinion, and what I find distasteful someone else might actually find comforting.

That's a good point, and coupled with mookie's link says a lot about how our perceptions of what's acceptable changes with time, even within the same culture.

Which is usually the case with political diatribe. The people who claim offence the loudest usually already have their agenda firmly in hand.

I'm putting this separately because I need to. Mookie's link made me think of something related. I have my own thread about the death of my friend Rocky, but posting this here seems apropos. All of our gaming buddies who still live nearby showed up. The wife of one of our members was taking pictures of various of us together when one said "Why don't we get one last picture of all of us together?"

So we posed around the casket for one last shot with Rocky in it. I'm still torn between "morbid" and "cool", and I suspect I always will be.

There is nothing actually wrong with that.Far cry from bringing a stillborn child home.

I have a problem with Santorum's mental state.I mentioned in another post I was liking him as an alternative to Romeny until I did some more research into his views and then came this story about the stillborn.

Goes to his mentality and how he handles tough situations...grief, stress etc. If Santorum was not seeking power, okay he can be a weirdo all he wants but he is seeking the Presidency, it becomes our business if he can't make rational decisions when things are tough.Bringing a dead baby home to "meet" the family is not a rational nor sane decision.Think you would find vast majority of people would agree it was not something one should do.

Santorum like most religious people believes babies are miracles of god or some crap, they are not.Having a child is a wonderful thing but it's not a miracle, its biology, pure and simple.You have sex, your lady gets pregnant, kid comes out 9 months later.Sure it's great thing but it's not some magical thing.Again, mental state of a guy running for President is our business, his behavior and beliefs show someone who is :doh:

There is nothing irrational and nothing crazy about it. If there was something irrational and crazy then it would be equally irrational and crazy when people to go visit to a corpse at a funeral home.

I know you won't get it, for a measure .....all the other students are wrong, all your teachers are wrong, all the textbooks are wrong, that grieving family is wrong...it never enters what passes for your mind that it is you that is wrong which means it is you who is irrational, or more accurately as the title of your topic says bat**** crazy.

There is no difference whatsoever

What utter crap:doh:

@Steve
That is the point, I have seen many dozens of families go through the same situation and seen the many dozens of very different ways they approached it, each one of them was right and only a pillock would try and claim they were actually wrong.

We used to wake people in their own homes, not so long ago.

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j3...ttofuneral.jpg

I think this should've been a poll, then Bubbles would see just how much in the minority he actually is.

It's not news, it's not our business, it doesn't mean Sanotorum is a nutjob (he may be but this has absolutely nothing to do with it!), it's not out of the ordinary.

I know a few people that have suffered this and they still add the childs names when listing the family (cards/presents).

Source: The Stillbirth and Neonatal Death charity (SANDS)

Nice one-liner. Stored in memory for eternity. :yeah:

Thanks. Aren't the best ones always by accident? I didn't see it coming. :sunny:

Re-reading this I noticed a couple of things that struck me, in a positive way.

Excellent point.

Again, something I wondered about but wasn't sure of my own feelings on the subject. Reading it out loud, I have to agree.

Well said.

But he's not interested in anyone else's opinions. He's right, he has the truth, and you need to learn this.

:rotfl2: Excellent! :rock: