When the end has come

[Jen2002]

My night manager shared the story of her first patient she had lost. When she made the phone call to the funeral home, no one answered so she left a message that Mrs. so and so had passed and they needed to come and pick up her body. An hour later the family called in tears there was a message on the answering machine that their mother had passed and they needed to come and pick her up! OOPS!!!! I probably should not have laughed, but I could not help it!

[Hilinenursegrl]

I found out my grandmother had passed when the funeral home called my house at 5 am to ask for my mother (Iwas 16) I asked to take a msg since last I knew she was at the hospital with my grandmother, when they said "This is so and so at the funeral home calling about funeral arrangements for (my grandmother). I replied with a "She died?" and he said "Oh, you didn't know?" I guess they didn't even wait for the body to get cold. I will NEVER forget that phone call.