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Poll: Your opinion on Jake's silence
MilAn:
--- Quote ---And really, would Heath want or expect anything more from him?
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I honestly don't know since i did not (in Heath's case)/don't know both men personally!
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on April 02, 2008, 02:37:08 pm ---
Really, even if every other person who has ever remotely known Heath has paid some sort of public tribute to him, it doesn't mean Jake is required to, also.
And really, would Heath want or expect anything more from him?
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Right. But, it does make Jake's omission from the list of tribute-makers glaring since these two were so associated with each other as public figures.
And, like Milan said, it's truly hard to know how to speculate about Heath's wishes in this regard. It is also hard to speculate what the situation would be like if the circumstances were reversed (this hypothetical has also come up before in this long-running discussion).
ednbarby:
True. But most people who really cared about someone who has died generally try to do what they think that person would have wanted, no?
Of course I can't truly know this in Jake's case, but it's the general truth, isn't it? Doesn't it stand to reason that if Heath had been the kind of person who would have expected all his closest friends and colleagues to eulogize him, Jake would have done that just out of respect for him?
I'm not trying to get those of you who are disappointed in Jake where this is concerned to change your feelings on the matter. They are what they are. I'm just trying to explain where I'm coming from. You see it as a glaring omission and conspicuous absense. I understand that, but I don't see it that way. That's all.
MilAn:
I can just speak for myself, but if i died (hopefully not anytime soon), i certainly wouldn't have anything against if my family, friends and colleagues payed tribute and shared nice words about me.
If all the people who payed tribute to Heath chose not to do it instead, all we would have are those tabloid stories (i think which are mostly untrue anyway), those tributes provide a great counterpart and i'm very grateful to the people who did this, it certainly wasn't easy for a lot of them either, but i think they felt a kind of a responsibility to do it. And i respect that!
That's how i see it!
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: MilAn on April 02, 2008, 04:31:51 pm ---If all the people who payed tribute to Heath chose not to do it instead, all we would have are those tabloid stories (i think which are mostly untrue anyway), those tributes provide a great counterpart and i'm very grateful to the people who did this, it certainly wasn't easy for a lot of them either, but i think they felt a kind of a responsibility to do it. And i respect that!
That's how i see it!
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I think this is a good point.
This is all such an difficult issue to work through. :( I don't know why I keep finding myself worrying about this subject. Some days I think I've gotten passed it, but then other days... like today... it weighs on me a lot.
I really don't know why it's so hard for me to let this go. :(
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