UPDATE: Died fully vaxd-Tired of losing people to pandemic

Thank you, Mystie.


It's so disrespectful to slap that on an obituary. 

If you only knew how many days I've been searching online just to find news about his death. I Googled. I went through a bunch of local funeral homes. I finally found one obituary from a funeral home across the state (they had moved) that didn't even have his name right, and it wasn't until this evening that this one turned up. His wife must have been very ill for it to have gone so many days. 

You died of Covid? In Texas? You must be an antivaxer, Trumper moron and I don't care if you died! Except, of course, he wasn't. 

Imagine feeling like you have to put WHAT YOUR SPOUSE DIED OF in the headline of their obituary! 

And then, to have FB slap a label on it?

THIS IS NOT OK, folks. It isn't decent. It's disrespectful. And it's wrong.

THIS exactly!




Thank you.

It sounds so very innocent the way that you put it, So very, very innocent.
And how does this even apply here?

You ask because you refuse to see what's happening right before your eyes.

Wait until you are personally targeted as a national threat when you have never cussed anyone out, publicly, privately or online. When you have never so much as demonstrated or picketed or boycotted a single business or person in your life. When you have never told anyone not to get appropriate medical treatment, or made fun of their religious beliefs, or home situation, or employment, or even their politics.

On and on and on ... it's been 6 years now people... I hear Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump. And now, this is the excuse for this early communism.

IT IS NOT OK.

I could go on long, daily pro-BLM posts and tell people to get out there to mingle during a pandemic when everyone is supposed to be sitting in their homes, and that's perfectly fine.

I can post everyday how we need to defund the police, insuring that the poorest people that need help the most will get even less, and that's perfectly fine.

But the information in a published obituary is SO dangerous that it needs ANYTHING added to it?

Says who? You?

Fine. Let's make this a little more personal. You & your husband are both fully vaccinated. You even voted for the person sitting in the White House. You and your husband both get COVID and he sickens and dies very quickly, while you are still ill. You've moved across the state from where you've spent the last 50-70 years and the only people who know your husband has died must have been told privately because there is nothing from your church, nothing from his high school alumni, nothing even from other family mentioned on social media. The funeral home posts a bland obituary, which is far better than publishing nothing, but they don't have anyone available to correct his name and anyone doing a search will only find that and be left wondering if it's him or not, since not only his his name wrong but there are no personal details, like where he spent the last 60+ years.

You get well enough, or one of your children is well enough, to finally publish a personal obituary, but it still has to be found online. People have to know he's died to even look for it.

A friend of you and your family has a lot of mutual friends on their social media and knows how much they would like to know of your husband's passing. They care about you, about him, about your entire family. Not wanting to unduly distress anyone, your friend has waited until the family published a real obituary so it could be linked directly.

And as soon as your friend does this, a label is applied that directs people to blahblahblahblahblah about the disease that just killed your husband.

Your beloved husband is not the focus of his own obituary that you wrote for him.

Because after almost two years, some idiotic person, like the person your husband would be perceived to be if you didn't put a disclaimer right next to his name in the headline of his obituary that you wrote when you were finally able to, might take that to mean that the disease that just killed him must be a joke and shouldn't be taken seriously.

And this isn't insulting to you, because... ?
It's not demeaning to your husband as a human being, because... ?

Just where is the limit when all y'all are gonna say "STOP!"?

FB pre-edits my posts now. I reposted an interesting story and a friend made a comment that the photo didn't look like the person. Doesn't matter if the story is right. So I answered, "Great. Expect FB to slap a label on it in 5...4...3...2...1..." but it didn't post. So I tried again, and it wouldn't post. So then I posted that this was my 3rd attempt and "I was hitting send now because" and then posted and edited in "so I could edit in that it'll probably get a label".


To me, you're all behaving like a bunch of frogs that were put in a nice, big beaker full of room temperature water and continue to sit there as the water is brought to the boiling point.