"Don't speak ill of the dead" my ass. If you didn't want people talking shit about you when you're no longer there to defend yourself, you should've been a better person.
I always took it to mean, like, don't bitch about Mrs. Obnoxious in front of her grieving children, not 'you can't say anything bad about a dead person ever' but let me tell you some people really do seem to take the latter approach and it's EXHAUSTING. "don't speak ill of the dead" are Ronald Reagan's descendants in this room right now?
Iâve always taken it to be likeâŠthey will haunt you. Like they will literally haunt your ass. This has nothing to do with morals, they will hear you and come back as ghosts and haunt you. I have no evidence for this, Iâve never looked into it, I just assumed it was like an old belief for protection against spirits. Kinda like how in Finland youâre not supposed to call the bear by itâs name and thatâs why there are all these nicknames for it, because otherwise itâll show up and eat you.
