>>22102522I never understood that shit around the office - death of a co-worker or, more commonly, the death of a family member of a co-worker, being an open discussion topic - E-mails, solicitations for flowers and cards, all that shit. It's a very private matter.
>muh grievingGrief and mourning are for the benefit of people who get to go on living. I never understood that either. Yeah, let's build a monument in the place where they ran into a horribly bad circumstance or drunkenly ploughed into a highway culvert. That's what we should remember them for.
Our views on death and dying, not unlike those on sex, given how we have presumably evolved socially, are as fucked up as they have been throughout the history of mankind.
