Campomanes dead

I know you’re supposed to speak respectfully of the dead, but isn’t disrespectful to publish an obit that makes people think your life was a boring snoozer?

Being a KGB agent is wicked but its interesting.

I am guessing he was not queened then.

On a more serious note, why do we take it so seriously to respect the dead? Perhaps because they can’t fight back? But I wonder if too much adulation, of dead celebrities for instance, would keep them from properly moving to a healthy life as a spirit, and instead leaves them “living in the past”, clinging to this earth. Just my half a cents worth.

I wonder about it, too. It’s the living, not the dead, who need the benefit of the doubt. Once a person is dead, it strikes me that it’s time to be candid about what was good or bad in his life.

Though I can understand being mindful of the family’s feelings.

I think its a superstitious respect for the fact of death itself. Which is fine, I’m superstitious that way myself.

Orson Scott Card had an interesting character in some of his books who was called, “The Speaker for the Dead”, whose job was to be candid about the deceased. I think a little less white-washing would do us all good.

In general, I disagree. But infamy is infamy, and if you’re so lost to honor that you served the KGB, in death you deserve obloquy.