AITA for keeping the rosary a dying patient pressed into my hands against policy?
I've volunteered in hospice for 11 years, retired RN, and for the last 14 months I sat with a widower named Walter (78M) most Tuesdays and Thursdays because his only family, a nephew Curtis (51M), lived three states away and visited maybe twice total. Walter had no children, no wife left, and toward the end he started talking a lot about his mother and her rosary, which he kept on his nightstand. Three days before he passed he pressed it into my hands and told me to keep it, said I was the only one who ever actually sat with him. Our hospice has a strict no-gifts policy for exactly this reason, so I told him no, but he got upset and I didn't want his last days to be an argument, so I kept it and told no one. At the memorial Curtis noticed the rosary missing from Walter's things and asked me outright. I told him the truth. Now the hospice board is reviewing whether I should stay on as a volunteer, and Walter's family group chat is split, his sister says let me keep it since I was the only one who showed up, but Curtis says I took advantage of a dying man who wasn't thinking clearly. I still have the rosary. I haven't decided if giving it back now would even mean anything.
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