If someone dies, do you tell the family at 2am or wait until the morning?

Anele and the Club on 947 · May 11, 2026 · 22m · transcript

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…