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First, I rather doubt that Steven would dream of ridiculing the poor
individual who passed away or any of the family.
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Agreed.
But regarding a reference to a sudden death of a colleague--what terms would
*you* suggest to replace "unfortunate incident?"
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I don't want to go into this too deeply, because this is precisely the type
of minutia that the 2% of the members that generate 90% of the posts love to
focus on... but I think "unfortunate incident" isn't so bad. It's a little
cold, but internal memos will probably be that way until Hallmark moves into
that market.
You could swap "event" in for "incident" to add a little more weight to it.
"Grave event..." sounds more serious too. And you get points in my book for
the pun.
;-) Kidding. Don't everybody start blasting me now...
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