When remembering and celebrating the lives of the recently departed, there is a certain level of decorum that just about everyone instinctively understands. You shouldn’t bad-mouth your Uncle Hank at his own funeral. You shouldn’t workshop pick-up lines on someone trying to make it through his or her mother’s wake. You shouldn’t offer to take pictures with uninterested mourners at a viewing. While these are extreme examples, they should be obvious, but I’m not so sure anymore.
On Wednesday, the O-Zone’s Tony Gerdeman tweeted out pictures of a poster intended to be given to the family of Earle Bruce, who had been remembered at a public memorial held at St.