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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TL:DR but can answer.  We had a death in the family.  A big time news/social/important death.  After three days of hell getting family ready and dressed for the funeral, and after several days of grieving and trying to get post-funeral things right, and putting family on planes and straightening all the messes,  I had a parent from our Private call me and berate me for not responding to a birthday party invite I had never seen. I was flabbergasted.  I didn't know about said birthday.  I guess it was in an email somewhere - along with the 600 other incoming condolence emails? I had no idea.  I barely squeaked out "Well we had a death in the family, it WAS on the front page of the Wash. Post" when parent continued to berate me for not responding to evite or email.  I tried to continue to explain that we had no idea of kid's birthday or party, but the dad just kept at it.  I just kept saying "I'm sorry".  What else can you do?  Be better, be kinder.  You have no idea what the other person is going through.[/quote]

Most of us aren't as important/self important as you.  Did you embalm the deceased?  Did you dress the deceased.  All you had to do was wear something dark and attend funeral.  [/quote]

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