Beloved Grandparents Perish in Christmas Eve Blaze December 26, 2008 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 12,447 |
Re: Beloved Grandparents Perish in Christmas Eve Blaze December 27, 2008 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 2,301 |
Re: Beloved Grandparents Perish in Christmas Eve Blaze December 27, 2008 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 12,447 |
Re: Beloved Grandparents Perish in Christmas Eve Blaze December 27, 2008 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 1,802 |
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kidlesskim
I was also wondering how the headline would have read had they been killed at ages 64 and 61, instead of 77 and 74, BEFORE the now 13 y/o grandkyd had been born???? Any one of my suggested headlines would have been better than the current one and I am sure that a clever newspaper writer could have thought of even more suitable ones. Society truly believes that 60 plus years of lifetime accomplishments, including serving in The Korean War, over 50 years of marriage, owning/operating a successful animal care business for over 30 years,, etc.......PALES in comparison to producing children. The fact that it's made known in subtle ways, like these headlines, seems to make it worse. How can anyone really say anything about it without coming across petty, when it's done in such a covert way??? Something about that is very unsettling to me.
Re: Beloved Grandparents Perish in Christmas Eve Blaze December 28, 2008 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 12,447 |
Re: Beloved Grandparents Perish in Christmas Eve Blaze December 28, 2008 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 12,447 |
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married with rabbits
You really have a point, Kim. In that first article we see other family members and the long time neighbor, neither a focus of the article. Always a way to bring that damn baybee into the picture.
That last bit you mentioned about 'aunt and uncle' really hit me. I'm an aunt. I'm not at all involved in those kid's lives. I would HATE to think that if I died in some freak accident the headline would point out my aunt status as it's focus. I just 'happen' to be an aunt. It's circumstancial. I can't avoid it.
Now I'm wondering about people who are estranged from their families and what articles about them look like. I know a lady who died and we noticed something about her obituary. It had tons of info about her husband, kids, and her husband's family, but hardly anything about her own. I know she has an ex and married a man around 15 years younger than her, so I'm thinking that may have caused a rift with her own biological family. But there was literally tons said about her husband's family. They really took her in as one of their own. To be honest if her own family didn't care for her anymore, then I'm glad to see her obituary as honest.
Re: Beloved Grandparents Perish in Christmas Eve Blaze December 29, 2008 | Registered: 16 years ago Posts: 4,532 |
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married with rabbits
That last bit you mentioned about 'aunt and uncle' really hit me. I'm an aunt. I'm not at all involved in those kid's lives. I would HATE to think that if I died in some freak accident the headline would point out my aunt status as it's focus. I just 'happen' to be an aunt. It's circumstancial. I can't avoid it. .