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> Your company loves you and wants you to be happy, though, so they’ll suggest two days for your honeymoon, two if a parent passes away, and one if your wife passes away. You can take that Saturday off, too, because the company is generous. There, that’s like four full days — five, if you time it with a public holiday.

I can't help but wonder how one would time the demise of one's wife to coincide with a public holiday.

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There is some evidence that Americans will schedule their deaths in order to save on taxes (http://www.columbia.edu/~wk2110/bin/dying-final.pdf). I wouldn't be surprised if the cultural equivalent is scheduling one's death to give your loved ones more vacation time...

Very sad.

As the paper mentions, it's also possible that people are lying to the IRS about the date of relatives' deaths. (I personally think that's the more likely interpretation, but I guess it depends on your priors).

While 'your honeymoon' could have been used in place of 'it' - I think in context, 'it' is the only one of the things in the list that is something 'planned'.

Perhaps parenthesis could have been used for clarification on this if the main discussion is about the honeymoon. eg. "so they’ll suggest two days for your honeymoon (and two if a parent passes away, and one if your wife passes away).

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