Merged Fred Phelps nearly dead/Is dead.

trustbutverify said:
I'm hoping it reforms into a smoldering crater.
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I like how you think there!!!!!!!!! Though I must admit my preference for the Fred Phelps Memorial Restroom for Weary Travelers and LGBT Gatherings to be built over his grave - designed so all the offerings flow down over his remains.
 
Checkmite said:
Doing things because they "would" piss off a dead person doesn't strike me as a compelling reason to do anything. He will be dead, fully and completely unaware of what anyone is doing, to say nothing of being able to take offense at anything whatsoever. Nothing would "piss him off" in such a state.
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It wasn't the only reason I gave. Also it would piss him off while he were alive if he knew that was going to happen. Most people are sentimentalists, and are upset at the notion that things will be other than they'd like them even after their deaths.
 
TragicMonkey said:
If he were utterly forgotten it would be simultaneously the moral highroad, the decent thing to do, and the thing most likely to make many others happier without quite realizing why. It's also fairly inexorable for everybody, eventually, so it's easy, too.
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FTFY..............
 
Odious though he has been, I still feel profoundly uncomfortable about the idea of dancing on anyone's grave. I hope he has a private and secret funeral, and no-one except close family finds out where he's buried.

We can be better than he was, by giving him the respect in death that he denied to others in life.
 
arthwollipot said:
Odious though he has been, I still feel profoundly uncomfortable about the idea of dancing on anyone's grave. I hope he has a private and secret funeral, and no-one except close family finds out where he's buried.
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I suspect he'll be cremated, else the location of his grave will come out and be the target of vandals. It might even be hard to find a cemetery that will take him, for that reason.

arthwollipot said:
We can be better than he was, by giving him the respect in death that he denied to others in life.
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He'll never know, so what's the point?
 
They can't be rented, I'm afraid. They're reserved exclusively for adults who need to use them to help people.
 
I would be really tempted to show up at his funeral with a "God Hates Fred Phelps" sign.
 
arthwollipot said:
Odious though he has been, I still feel profoundly uncomfortable about the idea of dancing on anyone's grave. I hope he has a private and secret funeral, and no-one except close family finds out where he's buried.

We can be better than he was, by giving him the respect in death that he denied to others in life.
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We already are better than he is/was. If we each hock a loogie his grave, it won't approach the wretched hate he dedicated his life to preaching.

I said this about Sylvia, it's true for him: respect is earned. It is not bestowed by death.
 
gerdbonk said:
I said this about Sylvia, it's true for him: respect is earned. It is not bestowed by death.
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Okay, let me rephrase. We can be better than him by not letting our hate spill out of our heads.

Anyway, I don't believe that respect is earned. I believe that it is lost.
 
TragicMonkey said:
If he were utterly forgotten it would be simultaneously the moral highroad, the decent thing to do, and the thing most likely to piss him off. It's also fairly inexorable for everybody, eventually, so it's easy, too.
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Maybe Rolling Stone can put a glamour shot of him on the cover, with an accompanying story investigating how society turned him into such a monster.
 
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