Should we dispose of mattress that deceased wife died on? ?

The practical angle: Just sleep on it and quit being a baby.

The emotional angle: It gives me the creeps.

Reality is somewhere in between. It's up to you to decide if you can deal with it. Personally, I'd just sleep on it and save a few bucks, but I'm also a cold-hearted jerk that doesn't care about these things.

Oh my gosh, that's pretty creepy. I know a woman died in my house about 15 years ago, but it doesn't really bother me - although I feel like she's still there, especially when my greyhound stares behind me, like someone is standing behind the sofa.

I don't think I'd have a problem if I knew that she died in what is now MY bedroom... but there's no way I could sleep in the bed she died in. Just to lay there, where she was laying and took her last breath. Whoa. I'd get rid of it. If you can't afford a new one outright, make payments. Even someplace like Aaron's Sales and Leasing... they can't lease a mattress/box springs that someone has brought back... selling/leasing used mattresses is agains the law.

Yes, I would definately throw it out, when someone dies, they lose control of their bodily functions, also I don't think that I would feel comfortable sleeping on a mattress that someone died on. Chances are that her spirit is still there and might not be happy with her husband being married to someone else, that may be why you are having trouble sleeping. I would get rid of it immediately or have it brought in and have it sanitized and then have it blessed by a priest.

Well I think the eery feeling is in your mind, as you know she died there and on the spot you sleep!

My sister bought a house where someone died in a room, and she slept there one night and worked herself up so much about it she had a panic attack. (she knew the woman.) I slept int the room for 3 months as I lived with her and didnt feel a thing. (I never met her)

The thing is with this, is you have emotional attachment. You are married to this womans husband, and you feel strange that your sleeping in her place. Even though you have every right to be there! You inwardly feel like your disrespecting her in death... But you married him in aperfectly fine way.

Get rid of the matress. Too many attachments and she wouldnt mind...There are more important things than money.

Sleep well.

It doesn't matter how much it cost if you can't get a good nights sleep on it. I would get rid of it. Maybe you could flip and turn the mattress for the time being. It might help you ease your mind a little.

I would get a new one. There is no way I could possibly sleep on that bed if I knew someone died in that same spot.

Some matress stores have financing for no payments no interest for a year or so, maybe go do that.

donate the old mattress....buy a new one .... out of respect for her .