If somebody who you didn't like died, how would you feel?

[Deja Q]

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. when my evil grandmother died...i was rather petty about it...

but she was true evil.

[Patiod]

5. Wow! You had an evil grandmother too?

Mine lived to be 100 (her tombstone was pretty cool - 1899-2000). My Dad says the reason she made it that long is that neither God nor the Devil wanted her.

I could fill a whole post with her evil ways: she didn't go to my parents' wedding (although she and the family sat on a bench across the street and watched), she once told my mom my dad was cheating on her (he wasn't), she said she was sorry my dad didn't have any sons (my brother is adopted), and she told my mom she gave each of her granddaughters a diamond and when my mom pointed out that I didn't get one she said "my real granddaughters". She was pretty evil.

Didn't feel anything when she died.

[LostinVA]

27. I have one -- she 89 and still alive

The good do die young. She emotionally tortured me when I was a kid, including not letting me where my glasses when I was at her house without my parents... because "little girls who wear glasses are ugly."

I meant to write: I'll go to her funeral out of respect for my father, but that's it. I honestly will feel nothing.

[REP]

37. I Had *Two* Evil Grandmothers

One pretty much disowned us because we're mamzers, so I never had much to do with her, but she fucked with her sons all her life, and afterwards. When she died, she left one son out of her will entirely (the other two put everything together and divided it in three equal parts among them). Not sure exactly when she died (obviously, it was before my father did, so it was at least 13 years ago) and didn't go to the funeral.

My other grandmother we called Count Hagula, and she did the "boys never make passes at girls who wear glasses" shit too. She was horrible in too many ways to recount. Didn't go to her funeral, either.

[fortyfeetunder]

19. Had one of those grammas too.

She died on a Friday the 13th and I felt that date was karma and appropriate.

[ThomCat]

24. I'll dance when my father dies.

So I understand.

[supernova]

2. Relief I would imagine

at not having to see that person anymore.

Fortunately, there's no one in that kind of position in my life.

[Deep13]

3. "It's about time."

There was a student in my high school who sold drugs. We called him the Pharmacist. A few years ago (and about 15 after graduation) he was killed in a motorcycle accident while running from the cops.

[ohiosmith]

4. Were it someone I despised I would be happy. If I just didn't like them

I'd feel nothing.

[Hugin]

6. I'm generally neutral on it...

Unless, it was someone really sinister.

[noonwitch]

7. I would recognize that other people loved him and move on

When my uncle died about 7 years ago, he was someone I had a lot of issues with, and I didn't think was a very good person by my value system at the time. My grandparents were devastated, as were his teenaged children, and my mom was acting insane and confusing my issues with her own. I let my feelings go, visited with my uncle before he died, and made my peace. I'm glad that I did, because I don't feel guilty about anything regarding his death, and his kids don't hate me for being mean to their dad.

[REDKING]

8. Depends....but as soon as Margaret thatcher croaks...

I am having a party,a big party.There are others but we havent got the time.Its my own Bastard list.

[Ariana Celeste]

9. Depends.

There are a couple who I would be upset, because I love who they were before they became... what I despise.
There are a couple in particular that I have no positive history with, with them I would be relieved but very upset for their kid.

Now those are people I know personally. People I don't know personally (and don't like at all), I'd just feel bad for those who cared for them, but not feel a thing about the death itself.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. Sorrow for those who cared about the deceased

I've been in that situation, and felt glad that I was able to help those who were stricken with grief, and in need of comfort.

[Spirochete]

11. Since everyone has to die

I would just be glad that it wasn't someone that I DID like.

[Mutley]

12. I feel sad when anyone dies.

Sad for that person's friends and family, and just sad for the loss of life.

[Neoma]

13. Indifferent.

[Monk06]

38. I wouldn't care enough to be indifferent. (I win heh)

[skygazer]

14. With most people, I feel indifference

However, when my ex husband dies, I will dance an Irish jig and travel as far as I need to in order to spit on his grave. I will derive great satisfaction from that.

[LA lady]

18. Me Too!

(not your ex-husband, but mine):rofl:

[951-Riverside]

15. Relieved

[swimboy]

16. When asked to comment on the death of Joan Crawford, Bette

Davis is reputed to have said something along the lines of:

One should never speak ill of the dead. One should say only good.

Joan Crawford is dead.

Good.

[Midlodemocrat]

17. When my MIL died, I was actually not that sad.

She was a horrible, horrible manipulative old witch and I was glad to see her go.

[LaraMN]

20. Sorry, for anyone who genuinely cared for them.

But that's about it.

[davsand]

21. How much do I dislike them?

If my abusive ex-boss croaks, I'll be LMAO and buying sparkling wine...

You have got to understand here, I regularly offer up the hope that nothing "untoward" ever happens to him. If the police came to question me about his departure from this planet, I'd probably get arrested. I would be too happy to see it happen. Sure as sh*t they are gonna think I did it.

Most people I dislike, I manage to still see them as humans, but this guy is in a whole new category for me.


Laura

[JackDragna]

22. Amazingly happy.

If I really don't like someone, I take great pleasure in their death. Maybe I feel bad for their family, but insofar as the person in question is concerned, the quicker they become compost, the better.

[tjwmason]

23. Probably angry with myself.

For disliking them.

[devilgrrl]

25. Well, it has happened already...

a year or so ago I found out that a guy that teased me unmercifully when I was in Jr. High School committed suicide in 1997 at age 33. Sure he was a prick and all but I can honestly say that the news didn't thrill me in the least, if anything it made me very sad. :-(

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. Depends on who it is.

I can think of a few people who, if they died, I'd go to their funerals just to be sure they were dead.

[kedrys]

28. When the s.o.'s evil child-molesting stepmonster died, I laughed

I only met him once, but he positively *oozed* evil. My only regret is that he didn't kick the bucket before he met my mother-in-law.

P.S. The s.o. escaped in the nick of time, but still. People like that guy need to burn in an ultra-hot circle of hell.

[davsand]

29. Celebrate your anger with a poem:

For all those who admit to harboring anger, a poem by Diane Wakoski


Dancing On The Grave Of A Son Of A Bitch

God damn it,
at last I am going to dance on your grave, old man;
you've stepped on my shadow once too often,
you've been unfaithful to me with other women,
women so cheap and insipid it psychs me out to think i might ever be put in the same category with them;

you've left me alone so often that I might as well have been a homesteader in Alaska these past years;
and you've left me, thrown me out of your life
often enough that I might as well be a newspaper,
differently discarded each day.

Now you're gone for good and I don't know why but your leaving actually made me as miserable as an earthworm with no earth,

but now I've crawled out of the ground where you stomped me and I gradually stand taller and taller each day.

I have learned to sing new songs,
and as I sing,
I'm going to dance on your grave
because you are
dead
dead
dead
under the earth with the rest of the shit,
I'm going to plant deadly nightshade
on your grassy mound
and make sure a hemlock tree starts growing there.
Henbane is too good for you,
but I'll let a bit grow there for good measure
because we want to dance,
we want to sing,
we want to throw this old man
to the wolves,
but they are too beautiful for him, singing in harmony
with each other.
So some white wolves and I
will sing on your grave, old man
and dance for the joy of your death.
"Is this an angry statement?"
"No, it is a statement of joy."
"Will the sun shine again?"
"Yes,
yes,
yes,"
because I'm going to dance dance dance
Duncan's measure, and Pindar's tune,
Lorca's cadence, and Creeley's hum,
Steven's sirens and Williams' little Morris dance,
oh, the poets will call the tune,
and I will dance, dance, dance
on your grave, grave, grave,
because you're a sonofabitch, a sonofabitch,
and you tried to do me in,
but you cant cant cant.
You were a liar in a way I that only I know:
You ride a broken motorcycle,
You speak a dead language,
You are a bad plumber,
And you write with an inkless pen.
You were mean to me
and I've survived,
God damn you,
at last I am going to dance on your grave,
old man,
I'm going to learn every traditional dance,
every measure,
and dance dance dance on your grave
one step
for every time
you done me wrong.

[AccessGranted]

30. Wouldn't Care Much

Wouldn't feel good, bad or indifferent.

[China_cat]

31. When my asshole abusive ex died

I had a party. Best thing he ever did for the human race.

[Nailzberg]

32. Yippee!!!

I can finally go piss on their grave like I've been telling them I would.

[hatredisnotavalue]

33. My father died a couple of years ago

He left my mother without support when I was little, which led to us being on welfare for many years. He remarried and adopted his wife's kids. Next time I hear from him was 32 years later when he was dying of cancer and wanted to include me in his will. I drove roundtrip 15 hours to meet him for the first time. (He was in a hospital halfway between me and his home.) Tried to renew some type of relationship with me and the grandkids. Very half-hearted on his part. Fast-forward 14 years. Family called crying last August that he was dying and wanted to see me. (again) Didn't offer money for the 2000 mile trip. Plus I was caring for my mother who had just broken her hip and I was the only caregiver and couldn't afford outside help. He died, I sent flowers and got zero money in the will.

I didn't like the guy growing up, didn't like him when I met him. Hating him would take too much energy. I simply acknowledge that he lived and then he died. I really have no feeling for him whatsoever. I just feel that it was his loss having never known me.

[Incitatus]

34. Inidfferent. Unless it's a Neocon, then I would probably smile.

[kwassa]

35. Dick Cheney?

I would feel gratified.

[spacelady]

36. If they were really despicable, make sure their coffin had a lock. n/t

[Heidi]

39. Everyone dies, whether I like them or not.

But even if I don't like someone, I wouldn't want them to suffer.