Atch
5 Nov 2023 #181
I didn't like Adrian but for me, ironically, the very qualities and actions that made him unlikeable are also the things that made his death the sadder. He had cancer as a kid and he made it through. His life was spared and then he didn't make the best of it. In some ways it was a wasted life. He wasn't a happy person and he caused hurt to himself and others. He still had a chance to change because he was only in his mid-thirties but he never got that chance. That's why I left a few words of sympathy on the thread where we left condolences. It was a sad loss because it was a life not lived as it might have been, could have been, should have been.
But whatever his faults and mistakes, I'm sure his parents loved him and it's a terrible loss for them to suffer, particularly at their stage in life. He also had friends and people for whom he must have left some happy memories. So, rather than not speaking ill of the dead, perhaps it's more a case of silently acknowledging who a person was while letting those who loved or liked him mourn him.