RIP Rant

I'm surprised how many people actually agree with OP, though.

I'm in total agreement with Castiel and Gilly. To the people saying the initials are lazy: why should we compose a 3,000 word eulogy?

Someone like Dick Winters or Pete Postlethwaite were stand up guys (afaik) and it's sad that the world has lost people like that when Piers Morgan and Louis Walsh still walk this earth but I didn't know them well enough to write anything other than a brief sentiment.
 
Seeing just RIP in replies doesn't bother me. People can often be a bit stuck for words to say when it comes to death, but they still want to acknowledge the passing of someone they had respect for.

What really bothers me are people who feel the need to post 'Who?' and other such intelligent replies.
 
Forde said:
I'm in total agreement with Castiel and Gilly. To the people saying the initials are lazy: why should we compose a 3,000 word eulogy?
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Who said anything about a 3,000 word eulogy? Something heartfelt, something sincere, something that isn't just the standard, bare minimum response would suffice.



Nazca said:
Amazing person...

An absolute legend and inspiration. Hope he found peace.
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This is infinitely better than "RIP :(".
 
I'm sure there is people who just post 'RIP' for the hell of it. Post-Count=+1 "Yay!"

But I genuinely only reply in a thread of that type if I do like/have followed the persons life and am saddened by the death.
 
I would see the issue if was just a random person none of us knew or had heard about but yes otherwise I don't have a problem with it - those kinds of situations don't lend themselves to long heart felt messages hence RIP fits the bill more often than not.
 
jp_bl_68 said:
So I should have more respect for the relationship than one of the people who's actually in that relationship?
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If you have any sort of personal integrity then yes. The level of integrity and respect you have for others should not be dependent upon that shown by others.
 
I don't tend to respond to most threads notifying of someones death, other people posting RIP doesn't bother me but most of the time I simply don't feel strongly enough about the persons life or death to have anything even vaguely worthwhile to say in the thread. Occasionally I do feel that I want to acknowledge their passing has meant something to me but otherwise I'll just steer clear of it and let other people say what they feel they should.
 
Id give my right arm if I was able to say RIP to my sister when she had her funeral and I was 2 years old, too young to know whats going on.
 
Nickg said:
You'd rather use the.most generic term than tell her that you.loved her or that you'll miss her? I see...

Its not very touching or personal is it?
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Unless I'm misreading (which is always possible) I suspect you may have missed the point. DJMK4 would like to have been able to acknowledge the death of his sister in some way (any way at all) but at 2 years old was too young to really understand.
 
Nickg said:
You'd rather use the.most generic term than tell her that you.loved her or that you'll miss her? I see...

Its not very touching or personal is it?
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Of course I would, because shes family, but I didnt get that chance,

EDIT: Basically Semi-pro-waster hit the nail on the head
 
Castiel said:
The level of integrity and respect you have for others should not be dependent upon that shown by others.
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It's not. My point is, why am I seen as being as bad as the adulterous wife when I've betrayed no one? She made certain promises of her own free will and broke them of her own free will. I made no such promises.
 
jp_bl_68 said:
It's not. My point is, why am I seen as being as bad as the adulterous wife when I've betrayed no one? She made certain promises of her own free will and broke them of her own free will. I made no such promises.
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Explain that to the husband or boyfriend while hes burying a pickaxe handle into your skull, I'm sure he'll understand and back off.
 
I dont see the point in the threads full stop.
I can see the headlines when I fire up my web browser, or hear them on the radio, or see them on the TV.
A.N Actor has popped his/her cloggs.

Ok, thanks for that, you didnt know him/her, I didnt know him/her, he/she made some stuff you might of seen or heard, great.
Now he/she is gone, either somebody else will do it, or it wont be done at all.
I dont see how this has any emotional effect on anybody.

Even when someone posts that a relative has died, what am I supposed to say? I dont know the poster or his relative, I am emotionaly unmoved by the event, anything I say other than the absolute truth of "I am not moved by that statement at all" would therefore be a whopping disrespectful lie.
Hence I tend not to post in them.
 
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