I still don’t get why the mods start doing that crap if someone is dying. I know out of respect, but come on, we are supposed to lie about the person thereafter? Remember Teddy’s first hospitalization? You couldn’t say Mary Jo without getting banned, nevermind Chappaquidick...
Oh, I do agree with the practice. In my mind it’s about class and chivalry. You don’t speak ill of the dead, especially not to the bereaved. It is low class. Liberal sites like DU are particularly vile when a conservative is ill and dying. I think we’re (usually) better than that over here. But sometimes it is tougher than others. When this old battleaxe finally kicks the bucket it will be one of those times.