Who was an awful person when they were alive, but everybody treats like a saint because they're dead?

Same. My aunt married this man and he used to beat the hell out of her, he has multiple kids outside of their marriage. His youngest being the same age as one of his grandchildren. People praise him all the time for being such a great man but really he was a massive piece of shit. Caused and inflicted physical and mental trauma on not only his wife but his children as well, they all have anger issues and i can see a glimpse of his personality in his wife and his kids they can be spiritually and physically draining sometimes because they have so much anger and take it out on everyone else. He’s passed on but it’s weird to see that they still try to cover up for their dad when they right these loving amazing Facebook posts about him when we all know he wasn’t any of those great and wonderful things

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