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your post has me sobbing. It was so heartfelt especially at the end:
I on the other hand need this time to say good by, once they are buried/cremated they are gone forever and I will never again be able to touch or look at them again. emotionally I cannot bury them the same day they die because I am afraid they might not really be dead and how awful it would be to bury someone alive. So I have to wait and be really, really sure.

I also have been there many times. Karen
Thank you for sharing!

I do the same with my dog, set up a wake and have to view them for a day. I also feared they may not be dead. I had no idea others thought the same way. It does comfort me to be with my dog even though they are dead. Just had one pass away Dec 23rd. I write a note and put their fur and a lock of my hair in a plastic bag, one for the dog to be nestled in her crossed arms and one for me. A lock from you and a lock from me, together a permanent lock we'll be. On Dec. 31st I believe that the other dog "saw " the deceased dog in spirit. He would not come in for 2 hours at night and kept looking about as if following something, no medical event at all. I feel it was the deceased dog especially after I had asked her for a sign. When I asked for the deceased dog to let me know it is her...the other dog bent his front paw a couple times as he did when the deceased dog would play too rough with him in the yard.