[EBH]

Wow. It is amazing to me how people can be.

I often marvel at some of my friends families though. And at some of the folks here on FR. The love in their lives is a beautiful thing.

It makes it hard for them to understand that there is another spectrum on the family scale. A part of the scale that pegs a cold, cold zero. My brother was a zero and I often find my lack of empathy sets me on the cold side too. Not a zero maybe, but lukewarm hopefully.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

I couldn't for the life of me figure how they could enjoy a vacation, knowing they put their mother on ice and would have to return to bury her. I think the answer was "oh - she would have wanted us to do it this way".

The mother's death had been totally out of the blue.