Death and Respect

This might sound odd to some, but I don't think that someone, who was horrid in life, should get a pass because he or she kicked the bucket.

Recently, between international news (and the obituary of some "prominent" biped) and the news of a death in the family, I find myself wondering why some people think that all dead bipeds deserve some respect after death.

In comments sections I've read that one should "wait until he's cold" (out of respect for the departed biped) or "show respect to the dead".

In my family, I heard that "the dead should be allowed to rest in peace".

No.

I disagree.

If someone was nasty, petty, always negative, manipulative, disrespectful, odious, generally unpleasant, and mostly a pitiful excuse of a "human being", I refuse to be nice because it died.

Any public figure who was abusive deserves no respect - not when it was alive, not when it's six feet under (should I start respecting Franco just because he's dead? Nope. Same rule applies to all nasty bipeds in my book).

The same goes for any unpleasant relative of mine. I'll ignore them in life, and I'll loathe them in death. I'll point at Rule #2 and #5.

Right now, I have two relatives who want to leave the dead alone. They're nicer than I am (perhaps because I can never forget, and I very seldom forgive; I remember what horrible people did). I can't have empathy for negative bipeds (then again, I never pretended to be perfect either, and I can't forget that some dead bipeds are back to nothingness whilst their victims are left to suffer until their last breaths - that's when the atheist in me regrets that there's nothing after death, coz some bipeds would really deserve to be barbecued in hell for all eternity).