[Sca-cooks] Personal Iron Chef Challenge

[Elaine Koogler]

jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:

> As you said above, one puts one's responsiblities in order for oneself,
> not for others. One also makes value judgements about life events. Some
> people consider funerals less important than other life-changing events
> (since the person in question is not there, after all).

Actually, funerals, I believe, are not really for the person who has died, but
rather for those of us who remain behind.  I went to my stepmother's funeral
more to be there to comfort my father than anything else.  That's not to say
that my stepmother wasn't a great person...it's just that she was beyond
caring whether I was there or not.  But my father grieved over her death
greatly and needed me there with him.  That's what really needs to be
considered.

Kiri