Ornoth

Well, there's a big difference between just "seeing" a corpse, and "Being with", as you say in your post. People are always surprised when I say that I've never really been near death at all my whole life (very small family, both grandmothers still alive, grandfathers gone before I was born).

But I recently had a very intimate experience with the death of a beloved pet - Kuzia / Pookie the cat. And I actually did sit *with* him for a while soon after he died. And it definitely was a unique experience.