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I don't think it's necessary to respect the dead, but it's even less necessary to disrespect them. The obituary seems frivolous and totally self-indulgent. Who hasn't had total assholes in their family? And how does this prove a person to be any better? Pfft.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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