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Here is the text from a reader's e-mail. I feel I need to post it...
Truth be told. Putting in your Bulletin about his suicide was wrong.. even asking for money for his ex.. was wrong, unless you asked his family and ex if that is what they would mind. ( Please reread the story, I didn't ask for money for the ex that was another publication)

There is a reason for that.. this family has to heal.. you may have rubbed salt in their wounds.

My husband was 'killed'... how? By crossing a street. He was crossing at an adult school for the blind, a cross guard had stopped the cars and he was halfway across when this woman who lived only a few blocks away and has been in trouble for speeding.. was speeding.. not only speeding, but on the cell phone. She hit him..

If someone who did propaganda (and yes.. that is what your paper does, good as it may be.. for the best reasons it may be) and posted his death/story in it.. without my permission.. I would have been furious.. angry... ( I knew Daryl very well and I don't think that he would have cared, it was no secret as to what happen)

Even though we were legally separated and he was living with another woman at the time.. the death was harsh.. and horrifying.. it hurt..
it was bad... in more ways then you could know.
His ex.. and family.. has to recover from a man who 'killed himself'... this is god awful.. it is horrid.. it is humiliating on top of it.
*I* Know you meant well on once sense.. used it as a story to validate your issues on another stance..
I am making the assumption you did so without permission from the family.. you rubbed salt in their wounds.
I know you wont care about hearing this from me.. and thats fine.. but I wanted you to understand from a survivor of a victim.. how it really feels.
I can only imagine how it must feel for the wife.. he kills himself after a judge rules for HER.. and then its blasted again on a the bulletin and pple are asked to send money to her.
Now if you got her permission for this.. fine.. but if you didn't..? Its humiliating and you don't have the right to put his family through that hell unless they have asked you too.. *I* know.. cuz not only was my soon to be ex killed... the woman got off practically scott free... she only got a 7 year suspended license.. why? Because she told the court she was sorry, and she made a phone call within 24 hours to the hospital to 'check up' on him.. so therefore she was sorry.. and was having to 'live with' his death and did not deserve more punishment so the court showed her compassion and her insurance only had to pay 15,000 to his family for his death.