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Old 26th Oct 2008, 21:34
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Cusco
 
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Requiescat in pace. Let him/her rest in peace. (Latin)

I see absolutely no objection in saying this: It shows a smidge of respect to someone who has died but whom one does not know from a bar of soap, which offers the same level of impersonal but still intended respect somewhat akin to our actions when we buy a poppy.............

But is not so unutterably cringe-making as the out pouring of condolences one occasionally sees.

While we're on the subject of Latin remember the other old favourite which occasionally gets forgotten here:

De mortuis nihil nisi bonum.

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