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Thread #101677   Message #2053492
Posted By: frogprince
16-May-07 - 09:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Obit Jerry Falwell (15 May 2007)
Subject: RE: BS: Obit Jerry Falwell (15 May 2007)
"The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones:" Let it be so for Fallwell-"-
M.Ted
I've heard that quotation a few times, but I've never happened to stop and really consider the implications. It strikes me as a profoundly, unduelly, pessimistic opinion, but at least it doesn't say the good is always interred with their bones.

I'm not sure why you said "Let it be so for Falwell". If by that you mean, let him not be remembered in death as something better than he was, I would agree. But I suspect that the evil of his influence will live after him to in ways that I wouldn't "wish" for by saying "let it be so".