many things happened here that should not have happened and needs to be reported. But, being a retired nurse and having done many, many patients post mortum care with the door closed and family members away or not even there, I can tell you that occasionally the nervous laugh or giggle does happen. it is not meant in any way to be disrespectable to the dead, it is simply the nurses( or cna) way of releivng the tension that ALWAYS accompanies death. I was helping take a body to the hospital morgue once. When we got there, we had to move him from the cart to the morgue tray. I had the head end. nearly dropped him. I had a nervous fit of giggling as did my helper. here we were in a morgue with several dead people, trying to hurry and get out of there, giggling like fools and then being ashamed. It happens. |