Maybe they voted for Biden beyond the grave as well.

Most well-adjusted people, when they think of someone close whom they have lost, ponder how much they miss them, the love that yet endures, and the fragile hope that they might one day be reunited.

Oh, and,

"Trump lost!"

Imagine just how deeply embedded Trump has to be in these people's psyches. I don't know if they'll ever recover.

"You've got to hand it to President Trump. Some people love him so much he can almost literally do no wrong. But for others, Trump hatred runs so deep that even death itself can't kill it. So when word came on a sunny Saturday morning that the president got his two-months' notice, the first ‘call' many people made was to beyond the grave."

And not just a few. (While the names are in the original piece, I've redacted them here out of a modicum of decency.)

"'Dad, I've got some really good news,' [said one] out loud, standing alone in her Waltham apartment, speaking to her late father."

Standing alone in your apartment, speaking aloud to your late father, about the results of a political election.

"In Andover, [a woman] mixed a Dewar's and water — her late mother's drink — and raised a toast. ‘They just announced Pennsylvania,' she told her mom."

"They just announced Pennsylvania?" Wolf Blitzer of the beyond.

"'I don't know if there's an afterlife," said [one woman], of Gilford, N.H., but she spoke to her late mom anyway. ‘We got rid of him,' she said."

She doesn't know if there is an afterlife, but she knows deep in her soul that Orange Man Bad!!!!

It gets worse.

No, really.

Psychologist Elaine Espada, executive director of the Beacon Therapy Group, says this can be part of the natural grieving process.

"She has clients who brought photos of late parents to the polling stations, so Mom or Dad could be there when the vote was cast for Joe Biden, and others who tagged their late parents in social media posts."

Totally normal.

"In Woburn, when CNN called Pennsylvania and the election for Biden, [one man] thought of how his late father would have wanted to share the news with his mother, and as an homage, took a picture of the TV screen and texted it to his mom."

Yep, we all deal with loss in different ways, and some of those ways apparently involve sharing a deranged hatred for a political opponent.

"'I need to be here for Nov. 3,' said [one dying] mother [to her daughter], the former Head Start director for the Greater Brockton area, as she slipped in and out of wakefulness during the second presidential debate, four days before her death.

‘I checked online and your ballot was received and accepted, so your vote is in,' [she] told her mother. ‘If you need to go now, it's OK.'"

You can die, now that you've voted.

Oh, by the way, that vote does indeed count. Even if you don't live to the actual day of the election, it counts in Massachusetts because the Secretary of State changed the rules for this election.

A lot of that going around.

And another individual likened it to God's will.

"'If you believe in heaven, there is this group of people up there who didn't like Trump' — including her mother, John McCain, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she said — ‘and it almost feels like divine intervention.'"

Another led her deceased mother's obituary with her political opinion.

"Please add one vote for Joe Biden for US President, American democracy and civil rights! [Rosemarie] succumbed to natural causes exacerbated by the stress of the occupant of the White House for the last four years and....2020."

Trump killed her.

Look, we all grieve in our own way, and some of those ways may seem odd to others, but I think most of us instinctively give people a lot of room for what is acceptable and healthy.

That said, this isn't about the grieving process, it's about using the blind hatred of a political opponent as a unifying element in your relationship. I don't think it's healthy. I think it consumes the positive things in your life.

And I'm pretty sure that blind hatred will endure for some time. In fact, if that's what they think of Trump, what do they think of those who support him.

Well, they have been making lists...