If/when we find out when a funeral service is to be held for our departed jelly, would it be possible to send a flower arrangement from all the jellies?

What a nice thought. I would be interested, but I don’t know if we’ll get that information.

I would chip in for sure.

It may be too late to do this. Maybe a donation can be made in his honor that would go towards a scholarship at the university he attended? Just a thought.

I think it’s a lovely thought, but at the risk of jarring the highly sensitive, I have to say that I don’t think it’s a good precedent to set. Doing anything in the name of Fluther as a whole, as if it were a unified body with a single opinion about things, strikes me as a risky business.

I’m sure no one would oppose the idea of sending condolences, but there’s a very good reason why some organizations decline to endorse any causes or permit any views to be expressed in their name.

This is not to suggest that any member isn’t free to do whatever they wish on their own behalf.

I would chip in if you wanted to do something. If not, that’s ok too.

No, @Jeruba, I totally see your point. If we were to do something, I’m sure we could do it in a way that didn’t have to include the site as a whole. Very good point.

If it were possible, I would totally contribute what I can, and add my name to a “from your e-friends” list. I don’t believe we have the authority to use the name of Fluther.

This question is a toughie. Maybe it could cause some sort of upheaval. Like I had this “boyfriend” one time who basically lived on WoW. Like it got to the point he turned WoW on more than me. In the time of our relationship. He would go to game conventions and had online chats I am actually glad we never got intimately close, anyhow if we had of and something had of happened to him I think I’d be more upset that a congregation of people who was a source of my/our tension coming in at a time of need, for me that would make me more upset. But that’s just a situation. I lurve Fluther sorry I do not lurve WoW.

I guess it goes against the rules to name the jelly? @WillWorkForChocolate FYI this is the former alter ego of nofurbelowsbatgirl, it was a bipolar spell :/ I’ve been changing accounts since about earlier 2009, and now you know.

I’m torn and don’t know who we’re talking about but it’s a nice thought. Not sure if it’s appropriate, privacy_wise.

I can’t find a polite and delicate way to ask this. Are we talking about someone specific? Could someone tell me who it is.. PM or here?

I need to know too.

I know who it is and I doubt there is a reason we can’t say, but to be safe let’s wait for Auggie to come back.

I don’t think it has to say it is from fluther, but rather just have the note signed by some fluther jellies. I think it will be tricky if we don’t know any of the relatives or friends of the person.

If someone organizes it just remember flowers are not appropriate at some funerals.

For those who don’t yet know, everephebe passed away on Saturday. I feel comfortable mentioning it, because there’s already been a memorial thread posted in his honor.

I would be happy to contribute.