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[commodorified]

So, seriously, when did it start to be socially acceptable and even normal to greet the news of someone's death by convening an inquiry on the spot to decide whether they "deserve" sympathy or not?

Ok, actually, forget that question. how do we make it stop?

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[legionseagle]

It's been going a long time on the smoking side; a schoolfriend's father died of lung cancer in 1978 or thereabouts and she found the "It's very sad but he shouldn't have smoked" "Actually, he DIDN'T" exchanges a particularly distressing part of the process, but at least better than what she presumed she'd have had to put up with if he had.

[stardreamer]

That's an astoundingly stupid response if you didn't know the deceased, and IMO should be cause for a stern and immediate lesson in the science that they obviously didn't listen to in high school. It's not as if smoking is the only cause of lung cancer!