It's not that picking up the medications is wrong. Most Hospice Services deliver directly to the house. But if you have a loved one who is actively dying........why would you as the Hospice nurse want a family member to leave his/her bedside and not be with him/her when they passed away. My husband passed away 45 minutes after the nurse arrived......being a nurse I knew that he had only a very short period of time that he would leave us.