There’s a debate happening online after a woman in America shared that her sister texted her in the middle of the night saying simply: “Hey, ma’s dead.” And now people are asking… if someone dies at 2am, do you wake the family up immediately or do you wait until the morning?

Some people say bad news can’t wait. If it’s your mother, father, child or sibling, you deserve to know immediately no matter the time. Others feel there’s a right way to do it. A phone call feels cold enough already, a text message feels almost cruel.

A lot of people online are saying if it’s immediate family, you don’t text. You drive there. You sit with them. But then others argue: what if the person needs time to process before the morning? What if waiting feels dishonest?

So what’s the right thing to do? Wake them up at 2am? Or let them sleep one last peaceful night before telling them the bad news?

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