Guest, Shenandoah, no need to fling insult where understanding is lacked.

The history of the OBIT as a PREFIX is very new. A number of words to use were considered because people had tended to write so many different things when someone dies... it was not simple to come to a decision on which word to use-- considered were things like Obit, RIP, see? And if you look at the many, MANY threads that have been posted when someone has died, you will see that they run the gamut, from the long to the short.

I think the main thing is, if someone starts a thread, respect that they had something in mind at the time, that may be different from what you would have done, and that does not need to be attacked. To go around in a "What You Should Have Done" mode is merely dysfunctional. YOU do what YOU want, and don't get so het up if others do what THEY do.

Is it so hard to understand that a musician might simply have grieved the loss of another promising musician and her entourage?

~Susan