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[sheikh radlinrol]

How sad. One of the novels that was part of a nice time of my life. RIP

[spiral78]

Such an amazing writer. Goodbye, Harper Lee. You certainly won't be forgotten; you were one of the most influential fighters for human rights of our time.

[johnslat]

Harper Lee

Novelist

Nelle Harper Lee, better known by her pen name Harper Lee, was an American novelist widely known for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960.

Born: April 28, 1926, Monroeville, AL

Died: February 19, 2016, Monroeville, AL

Education: Monroe County High School (1944),

Siblings: Alice Lee, Louise Lee Conner, Edwin Lee

Quotes

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Rest in Peace, Ms. Lee. Thank you.

http://www.biography.com/people/harper-lee-9377021#synopsis

[gregory999]

Thank you Lee for your novel "To Kill a Mockingbird ", which exposed one of the sad and "shameful" history of America about racism, especially in the south.
She was the iron woman who faced the white man racism and bigotry which spoiled the South and America.
Trump should read Lee's novel to learn from American history.

Thank you Harper Lee.

[AGoodStory]

Giants are falling.

[spiral78]

Now it's Umberto Eco, who surely deserves his own RIP thread.

[wangdaning]

Personally, I am wondering after the recent RIP threads, how long it will take the courageous members of this forum to dig up dirt and start bashing the deceased.

[johnslat]

Guess only cowards have posted so far - or could it be that there's no dirt to "dig up?"
Here's an idea - why don't you get a shovel and see what you can find?

[grahamb]

Harper Lee - friend of unAmerican pinko liberal Gregory Peck, therefore guilty by association.

© right-wing loonies

[AGoodStory]

[spiral78]

Or Umberto Eco?

[wangdaning]

Why would anyone take someone's death as an opportunity to bash them? Personally, I would not, but have seen it as I said in the last two RIP threads here.

[johnslat]

Does dying make a bad person good?

"He was very hard of hearing
He was dull and domineering
Misogynist, cantankerous and vain
He hit the bottle every night
He hit my grandma out of spite
And those stories about his bunions were a pain
But all that’s now forgotten once he took his final breath
Yes, even jerks turn into top blokes after death!"

The moral: you want everyone to speak well of you - die.

"So who says he'll forgive you
And says that he'll miss you
And dream of your sweet memory
God does
But I don't
God will
But I won't
And that's the difference
Between God and me"

When told she shouldn't speak ill of the dead, Bette Davis said: "Why? Have they changed?"

Regards,
John

[adventious]

[johnslat]

wandaning's fake wonderment was simply a straw man erected so that he could express his irritation at some posters (me, for example) "bashing" (i.e. pointing out what those posters perceived as major character flaws) some recently deceased public personages (i.e. Justice Scalia and Sir Terence Wogan) he apparently admired unreservedly.

This is sometimes called a difference of opinion; however, such differences are seemingly impolite and, well, unseemly as long as the individual in question has just expired.

What I (honestly) wonder is this - is there an expiration date (so to speak) regarding that? Does it become OK to speak ill of the dead after a certain amount of time has passed?

If not, historians are in big trouble.