On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:26:40 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>On Sat 29 Aug 2009 08:34:45a, Jean B. told us...
>
>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>> At what point does the good offset the bad? All three had shining
>>> examples of both.
>>>
>> I have had this thought too. Also, questions re Christianity,
>> forgiveness, and redemption.
>>
>
>Well, yes, there's that, too. What always bothers me with this sort of
>situation, though, is that usually after someone's death all you hear is
>praise. To me it's a rather unbalanced view of the person.

So, you'd bad mouth a dead person who redeemed himself after a bad
start? Most people refrain from talking smack about the dead, even
when the dead person went the wrong way at the end of life.

I attended a funeral a couple of weeks ago. The person had committed
suicide. He was a doctoral candidate who died as a drug addict that
had recently robbed a bank. All this built up in the last few years.

People usually hold themselves together at a funeral. His mother is
very quiet and reserved, never raises her voice... but she sobbed loud
and long at the funeral. She was absolutely inconsolable. No matter
how bad the person was at some point, there is someone who still loves
them so most people don't bad mouth the dead for that reason.

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