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.
What People Are Saying
nephew shows up twice in 14 months then wants to audit the estate. suspicious timing honestly.
NOT THE A-HOLE!! you SAT with him when nobody else would, that rosary was a THANK YOU not a bribe 💍😭 give yourself grace here
Should I stay in my house, move downtown, or move near my daughter in Ohio?
Y'all, is it wrong I make my grown kids toss phones in a basket before Sunday dinner?!
Should Bill and I go to our son's in Denver, our daughter's in Austin, or just stay put for Christma
AITA for making my son pay off the dent he put in my truck out of pocket instead of filing insurance
@coltonm_rides
bro said no gifts policy but also bro let an old man die happy, not the a hole 💀 curtis mad he didnt show up