Jesus said let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.
why ask everyone to be PC/Emily Post when some one dies?
WHat is “negative comment”, to speak truth or to say nice things avoiding truths?
no wonder our country is such a mess. Too many decent people sucked into made up ettiquite rules.
We are in a continual spiritual war in this world and yes maybe a moment of respect is needed, a quick pray for the family of the departed is all.
Those who want can get caught in in the sympathy longer but the battle is constantly raging on all around.
God calls a few to be there and support the family the rest of us are just rubberneckers tieing up traffic on roadway looking on the scene instead of focused on the road ahead of us.
In answer to your comments:. First, I am not Christian, so I don’t hold by what Jesus said (or what his followers said that he said), not unless what was said is actually morally correct. Specifically WRT your statement that...
“WHat is “negative comment”, to speak truth or to say nice things avoiding truths?”
...my response is that maybe you should take a deeper look at the foundations of your own faith. Jesus was, after all, Jewish. He also said (and I am paraphrasing here) that not one bit of the Law (meaning the Torah, the 5 Books if Moses) should be disregarded until it us fulfilled. One part if that Law is the prohibition against “lashon horah” (gossip). Under that law, one is not permitted to speak I’ll of others EVEN IF WHAT YOU SAY IS TRUE.” The basic reason behind that prohibition is that gossip destroys a community... though, of course, the mere fact that God prohibited it is sufficient reason to avoid it, human reasoning notwithstanding.
A decent interval was all that I called for, nothing else, so that we could avoid becoming like the decency-destroying DUmmies and other Leftists. Why would any of us want to emulate them?