Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Don't call me... I'm dead
Since I was in middle school, I've heard people say that the three most expensive things one does in life are being born, getting married, and dying. (I reckon the people who have said that have never been divorced. But I digress.) I suppose the good part is that, if you're lucky, someone else often pays for those things. Still, it seems to me that dying is enough of a pain for you and those who have to deal with it. It shouldn't be expensive to boot. But apparently there is now a reason it might be just a little more expensive: the Direct Marketing Association is now maintaining a Deceased Do-Not-Contact list. You can put your dearly departed loved ones on it for only $1. Can you think of a reason not to just shut off their phone and close their email accounts?
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I think I know why this might actually be of help! Maybe it's for a shared-household type of situation. When my father and my father-in-law died, my mother and mother-in-law used to still get a lot of calls to the house where the caller would ask for the dead person. Of course, after awhile, they got used to saying, "he is deceased" or something to that effect, but at first it was really painful for them and they didn't know what to say and they got broadsided each and every time. Plus, it made them feel very vulnerable to respond honestly because they thought that the caller would then know that they were living alone. So sometimes, they would say something like, "he's not here right now" and then the person would call back later on.... and the whole thing would happen again. So, maybe, better to set up a service to stop the calls to begin with?
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