Technically he's not dead, he's just been downsized to increase shareholder value.
Well, according to a comment upthread:
> In upstate New York he held back for over a decade any effort to mitigate legacy PCB pollution from GE’s mostly closed factories there. He funded AstroTurf organizations and downplayed research showing connections between PCB pollution and health problems.
Well, it's they themselves that should have thought of their families. It's not our fault when we say exactly what they were.
GP took a cheap quip at a dead man, for laughs and karma.
And just because he was (by all accounts) an asshole, that flies? And doesn't just fly, but inspires righteous indignation that anyone would feel it's disrespectful?
Be the change you want in the world.
It’s important to be kind to all, but it’s also important to give people space to grieve.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13041886
I guess as long as you're a Republican you're free game, even in death.
But then again - "I think what religion and politics have in common is that they become part of people's identity, and people can never have a fruitful argument about something that's part of their identity. By definition they're partisan."