"John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com> wrote in message

He 's dead for sure now ? I can talk ?

> Michael Cash wrote:

> > I don't mind people having different views of his record. Nor do I
> > mind people discussing them. I just think that it's common decency to
> > refrain from doing so from the time of death until the time of burial.

I agree with you for a private person, because a private person gets a
private funeral.

> > And I'd feel the same were it a politician about whom I held negative
> > views.
> >
> I agree. I'm actually impressed at the reverence most people are showing
> the former president; I didn't think any of those old values were still
> alive in our society.

 Reagan's official funerals are of the same order as  Japanese Prime
Ministers official visits to Yasukuni.

> There was an elderly lady in front of me at the supermarket ranting and
> raving about the cost of the state funeral and its occupation of a great
> deal of television time/money.

Ah money, that's an old value people still understand...

> I wanted to ask if she was planning on
> having her relatives throw her in a hole in the backyard and donating
> the funeral money to charity.

That's my plan. They'll put me in the gomi (recycle what can still serve and
burn the rest). Houses with a corpse sell much cheaper, never bury relatives
in your garden.

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