Excuse me, would offering condolences be appropriate if the death in question is your own?
[ If this were any of the other dead people he knew (which is more than he really thinks is necessary), most of them prefer to speak about it in a sarcastic gallows humour kind of way, but he's not about to assume that's the case here. ]
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[ If this were any of the other dead people he knew (which is more than he really thinks is necessary), most of them prefer to speak about it in a sarcastic gallows humour kind of way, but he's not about to assume that's the case here. ]