On Aug 26, 5:48*pm, "George Leppla" > wrote:
> "cybercat" > wrote in message
>
> ...
>
> > Since so many of you mother****ers were apparently raised by pondscum,
> > here you go:
>
> > When someone dies, no matter how heinous you may think they were, there
> > are those who loved them and are grieving for them. If you cannot say
> > something positive, just shut the **** up.
>
> > If you are lucky, someone may love you enough to grieve you when you die.
> > But I doubt it.
>
> When someone dies, bringing up old hates sure as hell isn't going to hurt
> them.
>
> As I get older, I have decided to try to take as little hate with me to the
> grave as possible. *I'm shedding it... a little at a time and working on
> that "forgiveness" thing with various degrees of success. *I may never get
> totally there but I'm trying.
>
> I read the vitriol that came out today after Kennedy died and I wonder if
> there was ever a time in my life that I was like that. *And if I was, how
> did my actions color the way people looked at me? *I learned a lot today
> about some of the people who post here.
>
> As usual... YMMV
>
> George L

AMEN! It's especially disturbing to trash someone before the burial/
cremation/whatever . . . when the mourners are so grief
stricken as the "loved one lies before them".

Besides, I think that the more good you do while you're on earth, the
louder you enemies will holler when you doe.

Lynn in Fargo