Margaret Thatcher passed away this morning after suffering another stroke.
Many people have different opinions on her politics. Many people hated her as a Prime Minister. Others adored her. Many women look up to her as the first and only female British Prime Minister. She's often seen as a bastion of the feminist movement.
She did many things in office. Some bad, some good, many of them memorable. But regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, she was a well known woman.
And today, the internet is full of ass hattery.
Jokes about her death, people saying how happy they are she is dead, nasty and rude and mean and cruel comments that really show how horrible humans can be sometimes.
Let me make this abundantly clear: it is never a joyful thing when someone dies. It's never something that you should rejoice over. Death is tragic and sad.
There are times when a person may feel relieved at a death. Maybe when a loved one who has suffered for a long time finally finds a peaceful end. Or when someone like bin Laden is killed, and the direct threat from him is gone. Those are times when it's ok to be relieved.
But it's still not ok to be happy.
Death is natural and death comes to us all. There can be beauty and joy in death. There can be grace. There can be peace.
We do not have the right to rejoice when someone dies. I don't have the right to make jokes and point and laugh.
Margaret Thatcher had a family. She had friends, she had loved ones. People loved her, people hated her.
None of that gives anyone any right to laugh at her death. What does it say about a person if you point and laugh and make jokes at the pain and death of another person?
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