Do you think we should have respect for the dead?

[triggerperson]

I honestly don't really see why that is so necessary. It's not like they can get offended by anything said about them...

[LouBerry]

I work for a funeral home, and I'd get fired if I didn't. I think that it's good to respect the dead anyway, it just seems like the right thing. But then it's just as much for the family/ies of the deceased.

[WaffleSingSong]

Eh, I am shaky on this. Sure, there dead. Ether A. They do not need it anymore, as there now in spirit form or B. There just dead, with a decomposing body. Either way, there dead.

Yet, I would be pretty pissed off as a ghost if someone decided to draw an "Insert Penis" around my mouth and do other things to my poor body. Lets just say, the Ghostbusters would be too scared to try to catch me as I make Hell on Earth.

[Vonn]

For distant relatives or someone else you weren't very close to, just be decent. (Of course towards loved ones it's different.) But nothing overly special because they're dead and probably don't give a fuck.

[workingatperfect]

It's more respecting their families and the people close to them than the actual dead. For me at least.

[Sugaree]

It's more for respect towards the family. Death often leaves many families in emotionally vulnerable and weak positions, so giving them a "space" to grieve and respect is simply the human thing to do. It's not so much of what is said, but what is done during the grieving period that factors into respect for the dead.

[Bath]

I think you should only respect the dead if they meant something to you. Then again, that's still up to you. Other than that, death is just another part of nature.

[Gigablue]

You should treat the bodies with respect out of respect for the family. The actual person doesn't care.

[Jess]

It's more for respect towards the family. Death often leaves many families in emotionally vulnerable and weak positions, so giving them a "space" to grieve and respect is simply the human thing to do. It's not so much of what is said, but what is done during the grieving period that factors into respect for the dead.

basically this. more towards the family than the person who died.

[Belton21]

I'm from alabama and we still sit up with the dead.Yeah, they're dead and that's just a corpse lying there. But that was your friends or your familys remains.I would not want someone to be disrespectful to my corpse,no I'll never use it again but it was mine.And you should always be respectful to the family everyone handles grief in different ways.So you try your best to comfort them in their time of morning.In my opinion you aren't supposed to talk bad about someone thats dead, I wouldn't want somebody to talk bad about me. I look at it the my mother always says treat someone the way you want to be treated dead or not.but I'm am going to be a funeral home director so I respect them any way.

[Telkanis]

So, I'm not superstitious but just in case I don't want some vengeful soul coming after me. So I guess yeah, I'd be respectful of the dead.

[huginnmuninn]

as long as no one violates a corpse or messes with the grieving family/friends then all's fair.

[Heavyrain4life]

In my personal opinion, were not respecting the dead, were respecting the peers of the dead. Just a thought.

[Sleepy Raisin]

Your question is vauge as to who. Are you talking about family memebers? People you barely knew or didnt know at all? Or people that served in the military?
Family members deserve to be respected for their living life and how they lived their life. Random people just deserve simple condolences and sympathy to the relatives. And military obviously deserve respect because of what they did for your country!

[Wakesetter03]

I personally do, I don't see why we shouldn't.
I think its a mark of integrity whether you respect people, dead or not.

[Sudds3]

I honestly don't really see why that is so necessary. It's not like they can get offended by anything said about them...

Well some native American tribes believe that you need to bury a person in the same sun cycle as when they died. But other than that they don't really care. They don't like autopsies and mainly just don't dwell on those who haves died.

[Carlsen]

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I respect people who die in my family. I do this because they often help me and I dont want to forget abaout them.



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[Dylan1]

If they were terrible people while living, they don't deserve to be respected.

Otherwise, yes.

[Sugaree]

If they were terrible people while living, they don't deserve to be respected.

Otherwise, yes.

Does "human decency" mean nothing to you?

[AppealToReason]

Depends on who the dead is.
If it was someone close to me, of course I'd respect them.
If it was an enemy, I wouldn't respect them or give a shit if they died but I wouldn't be foolish enough to trash them around their loved ones.

[xXJust Jump ItXx]

Its a personal matter for me... and yeah kinda respect for familys and such. And whats wrong with giving respect to them?

[Levy]

I think you should respect them in the sense that you don't disrespect their memory. One goal of life is to be remembered long after it. I don't think people want some punk insulting them, even if they are beyond the grave. Now given the formula, Time+tragedy=comedy, I too do have an occasional chuckle to a dead person's expense. I don't go out seeking to insult them, though.

[xXJust Jump ItXx]

Oh oh good example here... Kurt Cobain, hes been gone for 18 years now, sadly, but people give him alot of respect for what he did. And if you learn about him he was really smart guy and nice! He I guess punch some guy or something at his concert cause this guy was groping some girl... he just got up from play, went over, punch him or something, yelled at him, then went back to play! GO KURT!

[Twilly F. Sniper]

Depends on who it is. Im not going to respect a dead member of the mafia. no.
A dead soldier, however, i think does deserve such respect for his bravery.