I wonder the same too. I feel that a person should be celebrated while they are alive but I guess we humans think differently. It’s sad because when a person’s alive, simply taking taking the time to even reach out to those we love is a big deal. People make excuses instead of taking the time out. It’s really sad but that the reality we are currently living in.
Probably because it’s easier and it also eases the guilt about how we treated the person in life. It feels bad to think terrible things about a person who has passed on (unless that person was a terrible person). It might feel bad because that person is missing out on something we deem so valuable: life. It doesn’t feel right to denigrate them further, I guess. Great question!
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same here…. it’s very sad
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Excellent question.
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I feel the departed get tributes as a means for others to feel better about having taken them for granted while they were living. Sad but true.
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Never thought about it like that. Thank you
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I wonder the same too. I feel that a person should be celebrated while they are alive but I guess we humans think differently. It’s sad because when a person’s alive, simply taking taking the time to even reach out to those we love is a big deal. People make excuses instead of taking the time out. It’s really sad but that the reality we are currently living in.
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Probably because it’s easier and it also eases the guilt about how we treated the person in life. It feels bad to think terrible things about a person who has passed on (unless that person was a terrible person). It might feel bad because that person is missing out on something we deem so valuable: life. It doesn’t feel right to denigrate them further, I guess. Great question!
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