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[quote=Anonymous]I am so sorry for your loss. It is incredibly rude for people to ask follow up questions or keep pressing when when it’s clear you don’t want to talk about it. I think saying whatever you need to say is just fine, even if it’s not the truth.

Personally, I found it is easier for me to give a factual, blunt answer and then explicitly say I don’t want to talk about it. In my case ‘he died suddenly in his sleep 6 months ago from an undiagnosed heart condition, and I would rather not talk about it.’ And then I immediately change the subject or say I have to leave to cut off all the ‘I’m so sorry, how is his wife’ etc because I just don’t want to deal with it. I have found that people are just so damn curious and nosey, just saying ‘he passed away’ pretty much invariably brought questions about when and why, and I would rather just say it once clearly and be done. No one is owed this information, but I also have no particular reason for keeping it secret, so this works for me.  [/quote]

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