What are your stories of people handling grief poorly?

I am a veterinary technician and myself and the veterinarian went on a house call euthanasia. As always, it’s a little awkward going into someone’s home to put someone’s best friend to sleep, but this was beyond awkward. We entered the home after Mr answered the door already sobbing. We walk into the kitchen to find Mrs laying over the top of the dog sobbing as well. We sit on the floor and give the whole speech about how the process works, etc. Meanwhile Mr and Mrs are WAILING over the dog’s body. I have to ask one of them to move because I couldn’t access the back leg vein. We give the pink juice (euthasol) and all of a sudden Mr and Mrs are asking us to kill them too. I should say begging. Begging us to put them out of their misery. The vet and I look at each other and then at them and all we can say is we are sorry about such a difficult decision. They then look at each other and start to discuss how they can kill one another at the same time. They are wailing and discussing who will shoot who first in the head. As this discussion starts happening we begin the take the dog outside on the stretcher (because it will be cremated) and Mrs basically JUMPS on the stretcher at which point the vet and I have to put the dog and stretcher onto the ground. Mrs will NOT get up off the dog and all we can keep saying is we are so sorry. What can you even say at this point? So anyways, eventually, after I would say a good 45 minutes of her laying across the dog and sobbing, she finally gets up off the dog and we got the fuck out of there.

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