{"id":7957,"date":"2009-11-18T21:56:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T02:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=7957"},"modified":"2012-10-13T20:45:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T00:45:19","slug":"ethics-death-be-not-bland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/18\/ethics-death-be-not-bland\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics: &#8220;Death, Be Not Bland&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the fourth  Ethics column of mine which appeared a few decades ago in <i>The Comics Journal<\/i>.  This one, focused on what we say about our friends when they die (well, <i>after<\/i> they die, since <i>when<\/i> they&#8217;re dying I hope we&#8217;re all calling 911 or giving CPR or <i>something<\/i>), appeared in issue #104, the January 1986 issue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ethics41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ethics41-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ethics41\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ethics41-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ethics41-741x1024.jpg 741w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ethics41.jpg 745w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ethics42.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ethics42-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ethics42\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ethics42-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ethics42.jpg 739w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ethics43.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ethics43-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ethics43\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ethics43-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ethics43-739x1024.jpg 739w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ethics43.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re still here after I&#8217;m gone&#8212;feel free to tell the truth about me.  I won&#8217;t mind!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the fourth Ethics column of mine which appeared a few decades ago in The Comics Journal. This one, focused on what we say about our friends when they die (well, after they die, since when they&#8217;re dying I hope we&#8217;re all calling 911 or giving CPR or something), appeared in issue #104, the January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,80],"class_list":["post-7957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}