I don't think "due diligence" is the critique you have here, otherwise you would have called me out on it in earlier obits because I had just as many interviews with the friends of the deceased in those as this.
I think the "neutrality" thing, which is more what separates this obit from the others. It was something I had to think a lot about before I had published. However in the end I felt this was kind of the point. The fallen didn't live his life neutrally, so I think it'd be more a disservice to respond to a life like that with a sense of neutrality. It is more honorable to be genuine since he was being genuine, if but controversial, in life.
I don't think "due diligence" is the critique you have here, otherwise you would have called me out on it in earlier obits because I had just as many interviews with the friends of the deceased in those as this.
I think the "neutrality" thing, which is more what separates this obit from the others. It was something I had to think a lot about before I had published. However in the end I felt this was kind of the point. The fallen didn't live his life neutrally, so I think it'd be more a disservice to respond to a life like that with a sense of neutrality. It is more honorable to be genuine since he was being genuine, if but controversial, in life.