[Avodah] informing on death

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:22:22AM +0200, Eli Turkel via Avodah wrote:
: One of the halachot that has bothered me for a long time is the law not to
: tell people about a death except for sons who need to say kaddish...

I never heard of such a thing. The permissibility of not telling a
daughter, yes, eg if she is a cholah she'ein bah saqanah (which might
be YD 337:1), but an actual ban on informing? News to me.

Mar'eh meqomos?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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