Archive for August 28th, 2009

Don’t speak ill of the dead?

Friday, August 28th, 2009

This is repeated as a maxim often.  Most recently regarding the death of Edward Kennedy.This supposed maxim begs some questions.Does death make a person a better person just by dying?Does dying mitigate or obviate the actions of a lifetime?Can "speaking ill" of any dead person harm that dead person in ...