[Elspode]

In terms of absolutes, no, it isn't funny when someone dies, even in an ironic manner...not in reality. I guess the difference is that, having spent some time here on The Cellar with SM, I admire and respect his vocational abilities, his familial sensibilities and his conviction to his path, even though it doesn't agree with mine.

Since I therefore, ergo and to whit, *respect* SM, it would behoove me not to make fun of something that caused him pain, because that would be cruel.

So, to summarize...I don't make fun of the miseries of people whom I "know" or respect, and I do make fun of the miseries of strangers. There's a word for people like me. It is "hypocrite".

I suck.