The "he's a father" line has got to be the most slave-morality, don't-ask-questions, get back to work and serve the Economy, don't make trouble for the system, obvious bullshit I've ever heard.

One can make plenty of better arguments for why not to make fun of him posthumously, so why pick such a bad one? Oh right, because the vast majority of our society has never been educated to care about the logical validity of an argument, but only its emotional gut-feeling truthiness.