email saying my brother is dying from in-laws

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And ... he died the next day of metastasized cancer (only a little over 40 years old).

I cannot believe that anyone would be so damn arrogant and uncaring as to contact anyone via email telling them that their brother (or for that matter anyone!) is in the hospital and dying.

I am beginning to really hate email and hate computers. :grr:

What can I do?

I've tried calling these "people" and they had not even been decency enough to call me even though I had contacted them asking them to call me ASAP if anything happened to my brother. In fact, I was not even told about the funeral. :grr: :grr: :grr:

I do believe we are now living in the year 2004, the year when the whole damn world doesn't have enough care nor have the basic decency to even inform relatives when someone dies. What kind of world has this become? Email is FINE for some things, but to inform a member of the family of impeding death is NOT acceptable! NO!

HOW I HATE WHAT WE HAVE BECOME!

So, I'd say this: Email sucks IMO. I am so disgusted. Who wouldn't be? I wish letter writing would come back and what about the telephone? :grr:

And to top it off my brother had a few things of no real value that belonged to my family (only two of us left now - the rest are all dead) and they aren't about to give me these items it seems. One of them is my late father's war medals from WWII.

Damn. I'm pissed.

What would you do?