Truth in death

[debgeisler]

In ancient Greece, libeling someone who was deceased was considered so wrong that it was punishable criminally. When I was growing up, I heard the old warning, "Do not speak ill of the dead."

One woman's family, however, found themselves completely unable to mouth platitudes about her life, and so ran an obituary which is sadly honest.

Every day, I count myself blessed to have my very special, loving, wicked smart, and cool mother.

Comments

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Sweet Mary Murgatroyd, what a terrible mother this woman must have been to have one of her own children place such an obituary in publication. I thank whatever God or gods there be that my mother, however neurotic she might have been, was always kind, loving and supportive to me and my brothers...even long after we left her home and went back to live with our father. (They divorced when I was very young.) She died at 56 of cancer in 1995 and I miss her still.

[marahsk.livejournal.com]

I have come to believe that people who wish to be spoken well of after they die should do something while alive that will move people to speak well of them. And most people do. But it sounds like Dolores reaped what she sowed.