Sorry, I am must be missing something here. I have never claimed to be all sensitive and cuddly, l will leave that to the Guardian readers. I have merely made point that diverting the thread around an unconnected matter is bizarre.
Let's avoid trying to emotionally blackmail me into having a connection with a complete stranger to satisfy your own needs to vent grief?
Reading the tributes to the gentleman in question I have no doubt he was a fine person. I did not know him and don't want to be dragged into an emotional fray around a stranger.
Making personal attacks about me because you don't like my stance on dealing with death would appear to lower people to the very level they are vilifying.....
Sorry if that offends people.