I don't think that family members would think to click on a thread whose slug is "Administrative discussions." Because if this is a real death, why would a non-Buffista think that there would be anything "administrative" about that?
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Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
What Teppy said.
There's nowhere else we could have a community-wide discussion, and I think it needs to be a community-wide discussion.
This.
"Dad really loved it here. They really seem to love him. Let's poke around." seems a FAR FAR FAR more likely scenario than someone setting up a dummy address and a dummy checking account to do work for Brenda's company.
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He is nowhere on the list of faculty and staff there either:
Although the monkey-bite sickness would likely have caused him to have to stop teaching.
I agree with Teppy. I think I was delurked and posting for well over six months or more before I ever thought to look in Bureaucracy. I figured it was more for the stompies and such. Why I even started reading it I can't remember any more. So, yeah, I did start reading it, but it wasn't an intuitive "oh, this is something I should do" kind of thing.
well, there are all different types of grieving, but I, for one, cannot imagine that poking around an internet site my relative/good friend frequented would be high on my list after they died. YGMV
Trudy, what do you want us to do? Communicate by email? Set up a yahoo account somewhere to discuss all this? That's completely impractical, when this thread is right here for this sort of use. If in the extremely unlikely event a family member finds the discussion, and objects to it rather than contributing some explicatory facts (which I would be quick to do, were it my family member under such discussion), we can apologize and explain.
It seems to me a mark of the respect we all held Gus in that we want to know the truth. Well, some of us.
I'm sorry it upsets you.
This is probably the least likely thread anyone just looking around would be found. If Seamus or Kimi want to spend time poking around on a board that Gus visited a few times a year for the last couple of years (which seems unlikely), I think they'd be interested mostly in threads he posted in. After my dad died, we spent time informing people in groups he belonged to (Pilots from his group in Korea, for example), but not in then joining those groups. We had enough to do with dealing with real life stuff.