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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. It isn't fine to send a commercial sympathy card.  You write a note of.sympathy .  It is gauche to do otherwise.[/quote]

Yes, I'm sure the dead and grieving family members care about whether a freakin' card is "gauche" or not.  :roll: [/quote]

You know what they say about death: it brings out the best in some and the worst in others.  Some grieving people do latch onto things like this.  Not to say that you should concern yourself with it, but I remember when FIL died, DH was really angry that my parents (who are notoriously disorganized and late with everything) took so long to send written condolences (they spoke to DH and MIL on the phone).  I also had a college acquaintance whose parents' deaths made the news and she received notes of condolences from strangers; a mutual friend was incensed "on her behalf" at the gall of people who didn't know her to presume to send notes.  Everyone handles the "anger" stage differently, and it's often easy to latch onto these sorts of things in the moment.[/quote]

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