Daily Agitator
A couple of days ago, Sen. Stevens of Alaska was killed in a plane crash in western Alaska, along with a couple of other people….and immediately the media got people who knew him on the phone and pumped them full of question…none of which were relevant but questions and more questions…..
This got me to thinking about death and thought about the lies people tell when remembering the dead…..it seems NO one wants to call an a/hole an a/hole….so we send the dead to meet their maker on the back of a lie…not everyone is a sterling individual…trust me on this……I would not lie to you.
So answer me this…why do we lie about the dead? Oh I kn0w…it is bad manners to speak ill of the dead….is that it?…..well that is just plain BS……..to me an a/hole will always be an a/hole….this could be why I am NEVER asked to give eulogies……it seems I call it as I smell it…..no amount of money can make me say good things about a person that would not know a good deed if it bit them in the ass…enough said?
Yeah, I guess that’s probably quite enough said. Actually, though, I’m not sure it’s always true by any means – mostly except when it’s the RECENTLY dead we’re talking about… don’t you think?
I mean, for instance, though many mourned him at the time and some still do (in public at least), someone like Stalin isn’t generally exactly seen as Mr. Niceguy these days, is he? Any more than Mao Tse-tung is any longer broadly seen as the answer to a maiden’s prayer in China?
True…….however I was talking in generalities……every funeral I have ever had the misfortune to attend has a priest/cleric/whatever that gives his little talk and it is all sunshine and roses….then people give the eulogy and it is once again sunshine and fecal matter……an asshole is still an asshole……on the Stevens thing….I was not necessarily talking about him, I did not know hime….he may have been a stand up guy….but more that the stories and guest talking about him and his life…….
Yes, I understand your points and (in general at least) you are, of course, entirely right. You’re probably also right in your assumption as to why you don’t get asked to speak at funerals…
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Yep….it all began when my mother died and some religious a/hole talked about her and he had NEVER met her….of course being an opinionated bastard I let him know what I thought of him and what he was saying……not that I disagreed with him but rather he had NO idea if he was accurate or not…..and yep, I am NOT the most popular eulogy person in the area…