Letters to the Editor
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Think before you shoot off your keyboard
Memorializing someone online is a good idea, a beautiful way for friends and family, especially the young, to express and work with (because sometimes, you never get "through") their grief--perhaps more effective than the traditional flowers-and-card that I grew up with. But I have this to say to the callous, callow, and rude young people who feel that they have the right to make fun of the deceased, their manner of death, and then make cruel comments to the family/friends and empty statements about the first amendment: Someday, not too far from now, you'll look at your toddler, your fourth grader, your teenager--whom you will love more desperately than you ever loved anyone--and you'll remember the crap you posted to another parent, and feel the bile of regret and shame in your throat. We all have moments in life when it becomes clear to us what wrong we have truly done. They are never pleasant.