Originally Posted by monet View Post

No it does not.
People have their chance to act decent to another person before death.
They don't get to act all lovey dovey to someone they hated and constantly bad mouthed after that individual dies.
You don't get to tell someone that their family recipe is Mendlebread and after Mendleson dies you say: "oh that's horrible... I really liked that guy."
That's Two-Faced Hypocrisy.
You'd make a fair point, but per the usual, you stretch it too far.

While I'm not going to go back and make ridiculous claims that I enjoyed Alan's company as a poster, nor am I going to dance all over the grave of someone who isn't around to defend himself.

It's not out of any kind of sanctimonious affinity; it's because there's no longer an argument to win. I called him an insufferable human being less than a week ago; I neither deny or regret that because that is what he was being. What am I supposed to do---measure what I say to everyone on the off-chance that they are going to die in the near future? I'll do that with my fiancee, my kids and my mother. That being the last thing I said about Mendelson before he died, assuming he hadn't already when I said it, certainly doesn't matter to him at this point.