Why not hold Whitney’s Heichel’s memorial where everyone could attend?

by life is to short 3 Replies latest jw friends

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  life is to short

  This question has been brothering me for awhile. Why did Whitney Heichel's family not hold her memorial in a large place such as a school gymnasium?

  We have has memorial's where I live which is about 600 miles from Portland Or and our city has places that are large enough for 2000 or more. We had one family in our hall whose son was hit by a train and we had over 800 people there. Also we have had in our city non JW's that die and the whole community has shown respect to the family by attending the funeral. I have not attended because I did not know the person but I have seen on the news that they have been as many as 2000 to a funeral of a worldly person here.

  Also why was it on a Friday during the day. Why not hold it on a Saturday to show kindness for those who have to work. They could have easily have found a place that would have held up to two thousand or more especially in Portland. I am sure Jehovah would have provided a place.

  Something is just not adding up. Think of the great witnesses it would have given to have everyone seeing the chief of police sitting arm in arm with the family, can you not imagine what a great witnesses it would have been to see the mayor and the 'hugging the life out of them.' They could have had boxes of literature out and schools have plenty of places to feed people. This way they would have also not had to turn away ones or had then stand in a tent in the parking lot. They could have then had a small memorial for just the family and not made such a huge thing about it like they did.

  Something is just really not adding up.

  LITS
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  Theocratic Sedition

  After all this media attention and scrutiny, maybe the family wanted something more quiet, something normal in harmony with JW standards of normality. They didn't have to do a public memorial at all. They're not obligated to show consideration to someone who has to work on a Friday. If a person can attend, great. If not, well life goes on. Won't be the first memorial someone missed or attended, and won't be the last.

  Just as a side note, now that you mention this, my mother already stated she doesn't want any memorial done on her behalf after she passes. That's her wish, and she doesn't owe anybody left behind anything.
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  keyser soze

  Why not hold it on a Saturday to show kindness for those who have to work. They could have easily have found a place that would have held up to two thousand or more especially in Portland.

  How selfish of them to not think of others in their time of grief.
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  life is to short

  If they felt that way then way accept the gifts of money that the worldy people gave them and also all the time the worldy people gave if they have to grive alone.

  I am not trying to be uncarring toward the family in any way as you keyser is indacating but not just the family was affected and to people who helped look for Whitney and who knew her to be shut out of her memorial seems very uncarring. Their money is OK to take from them but to not let them come to the memotial just seens uncarring. The family did not even have to be there if they were in such grif.

  Also Clint the husband had a pay pal account set up where prople could donate money just the Monday after they found her so his griff was not so bad as he was not above accepting money.

  LITS