More things I'm begging people to do, this time with no apologies:

[conuly]

If you have any influence or control at all over the people who run a database with people's names, please please please do whatever you can to make sure they accept hyphens and apostrophes. This is 2022! You don't need to be so stingy with what are, in fact, pretty common aspects of a lot of people's names!

My sister should not have spent half this day arguing with the hospital over whether or not the name Anne-Marie properly contains a fucking hyphen.

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[sixbeforelunch]

I have an apostrophe in my last name, and always have to spell my name twice for people because some computer systems take it and some don't, so I totally understand the frustration. It's extra awful when you're dealing with grief, though. I'm sorry. :(