She's like... 70 or something anyways, so she'll be dead soon enough. :P[/quote]

I know that this was said in jest, at least I hope it was, but the original statement coupled with the few similar remarks strikes me as bad form.

We love our snakes that may bite us and escape out of their enclosures. Yet we have run ins with other people, and are so quick to jump to thoughts of their demise.

You can argue until you are blue in the face about people having alterior motives, and being evil, but they are still people.

I just can't see the humor in jesting about someone's passing.