Thursday, July 29, 2010

Controversial Mayor’s Death

Dear Mrs. McVeigh,
I have two questions about the passing of the mayor who shot her daughter and then herself. The first question is should there be two memorial services/funerals or one for both of them? The second is that the city that she was the mayor of is flying flags half-mast in her honor at their City Hall. Since it is a murder/suicide do you think this is right?
Anonymous

Dear Anonymous,
It is up to the family of the deceased if there are one or two memorial services for the mayor and her daughter. It is the preference of what the family needs in order to deal with this very sad tragedy. As for the flying of the flags half-mast, she was a public official who passed away, and the cause of her death does not come into play for the tradition of the flags flying.

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