victor two
Condolences....... is there a better way
Agreed, well done for speaking up and saying what I have held back from saying each time. Allow me to give a professional perspective, my work involves me with bereaved people. They are very newly bereaved as my work is from soon after the death until the funeral, so I meet people every week who are bereaved in all the ways possible. This takes us from cot death, through young people to a natural end of life. Oh yes, and folks that have died in aircraft crashes.
When I meet these people, I
never offer 'my condolences'. Why? There is no purpose to mouthing words about someone I did not know. I am there to help them in a practical way and I get on with it. I hear many in the funeral trade (which I am not) blather on about condolences and it is meaningless. Let us end this practice on PPRuNe.