Death of a fellow firefly fan
POSTED BY: fireflyfanatic
UPDATED: Thursday, February 5, 2004 21:44
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Was "Andrew" made up as well?
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Originally posted by SouthernSlayer:
Thanks BrownCoat1.
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So while we are still on this topic. Is it really okay to go thru someone else's private diary, mail, letters, papers, computer files, including the websites they visited, once they have pasted on? and let's just preclude any type of death under mysterious or intentional circumstances (looking for murder clues, etc.)
I know that people do sometimes. But it just feels wrong. It's like, "oh, he/she is dead now, it doesn't really matter". Aren't private things still private? if they had wanted to share those things, they would have shared it.
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Originally posted by Saint Jayne:
It wouldn't be unreasonable for family to go through computer accounts.
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Originally posted by Jasonzzz:
So while we are still on this topic. Is it really okay to go thru someone else's private diary, mail, letters, papers, computer files, including the websites they visited, once they have pasted on?
Privacy is no longer an issue for the deceased. Really, it's a question to be answered by the living people involved. If you want to board up their room and never think on it again, or if you want to prop the body up in a corner of a bar and toast to it all night, that's your business.
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I wake up and Southern Slayer is alive? What is going on around here?
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I'm reading this thread and I'm totally shocked someone would say he's dead. Unbelievable.
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Originally posted by Succatash:
I wake up and Southern Slayer is alive? What is going on around here?
That's what I said! Good to see he's alive, but I think we need to punish whoever started this little joke- Really, really in the not funny category - Permanent ban from the site, is my vote -
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He looked bigger when I couldn't see him.
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I feel like Wash in the Message!
Mal, what's your dead army buddy doing on the bridge?
Geesh, Slayer, I sure am glad I didn't say anything bad about you. I bet it's like reading your own obituary.
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Here is what I think:
I don't think 'the living' suddenly gains more rights to speak for the person whether said person is dead or alive. If they didn't have the right in the first place, what transpired that made them gain that right? and to completely disrespect a person's privacy? My point was that someone's things are private to them should always be private, whether the person is there or not.
Sure, legally, the dead's property is transferred to someone living for custody. Legally, the living own those things. But what I posit is that we should respect that person's privacy even when they are no longer around. My thinking is that if it was private, it should be private. It they had wanted to share it, they would have. period.
And you can thinking about the person as they are without boarding up the room or tearing thru the diary too. I have only thought about preserving my parents (mummy like) when they depart - I imagine the cost would be astronomical though... but I read from National Geographic that folks in Malaysia and Africa routinely dress up the dead an d let them stand in the living room or in the basement for the first year before burial; without preservatives, that is they rot within some 10 feet or you for the entire year... Though that's not the same privacy issue....
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Originally posted by Jasonzzz:
So while we are still on this topic. Is it really okay to go thru someone else's private diary, mail, letters, papers, computer files, including the websites they visited, once they have pasted on?
Privacy is no longer an issue for the deceased. Really, it's a question to be answered by the living people involved. If you want to board up their room and never think on it again, or if you want to prop the body up in a corner of a bar and toast to it all night, that's your business.
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Originally posted by Jasonzzz:
I don't think 'the living' suddenly gains more rights to speak for the person whether said person is dead or alive.
Since the dead cannot, the living must. I don't consider the dead "people". I show nothing but respect to the bodies and posessions, but they are only objects, and somebody needs to be responsible for them.
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If they didn't have the right in the first place, what transpired that made them gain that right?
I'm really fighting the urge to be sarcastic here.
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My thinking is that if it was private, it should be private.
If they safeguard it well enough, it will continue to be so.
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And you can thinking about the person as they are without boarding up the room or tearing thru the diary too.
I was only giving a couple of extreme, real-life examples. Don't read too much into these.
It's difficult not to personify the dead. The closer you are to them, the more this will happen.
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