We just got a lovely bouquet for my mother from her job.

[conuly]

And to be fair, my mother would've liked these flowers.

On the other hand, she would've also liked snacks. I'm begging you, if you have the irrepressible urge to send something to somebody's house after a death, mine or anybody else's, consider a (culturally appropriate) gift basket. It reminds them to eat, plus they don't have to figure out what to do with food the way they have to do figure out what to do with flowers.

(Also, of late, none of the gift baskets I've gotten have made me cry. Flowers, apparently, are something else entirely.)

Edit: Not, of course, that I don't appreciate nice gestures, but... I'm still a bit too sad to appreciate flowers politely, I guess? Sorry.

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[sabotabby]

That's valid. Though, make sure it's something the person likes. My esteemed colleagues once sent me an edible arrangement (I don't remember if it was my stepdad's death or my own cancer surgery, but either way I didn't have any appetite), full of exactly the kind of almost-rotting fruit that I dislike. It's very hard to be gracious about these things sometimes.