I just want every obituary to include how the person died, it that so much to ask? Surely I am not the only deviant mortal intensely curious about such things? Note to universe, include death details in mine.
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Although I did see the post that prompted this has a follow up Facebook comment with cause
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Replying to @amelapay
sure, you (and I) want that. ...but this is a case of competing desires. Family often doesn't want to share. Clearly we need some sort of crowdsourcing market solution to see if there's a market clearing price!
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I understand they don’t want to share but I don’t understand why they don’t want to. Even in ordinary (non suicide etc) cases, there’s often not even the vaguest of descriptions - “heart condition” “old age” etc.
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Eh. Cultural norms and framing. Also, see "ask vs guess" culture. Also, you know the economics of presents (e.g. you signal how well you know someone by being able to guess what they want) - anyone close maybe already knows. Finally, so many people are terrible that >>>
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if you said "cancer", then at the wake everyone would be saying "cancer is so terrible, oh that's so bad", etc. So hiding the info means that you have to listen to it being reflected back at you less. (That may be a sperg specific theory tho)
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