That Funeral Thing....

[EnsignHarper]

This may or may not be appropriate on this particular page...but....after Leonard Nimoy passed away. a lot of people, both here and other places were critical of William Shatner not attending Mr. Nimoy's memorial service due to his commitment to a charity event in Florida. Well....today I came upon this blog, which has a very good reason why Shatner did NOT appear. http://www.newsfromme.com/page/5/ (about halfway down).

After reading this, my appreciation of Mr. Shatner went up quite few notches, for the exact reason the blogger stated in HIS appreciations.

I hope some of us here will have the same feelings...Shatner gave up quite a bit for the Nimoy family's privacy...

 

[Poltargyst]

This may or may not be appropriate on this particular page...but....after Leonard Nimoy passed away. a lot of people, both here and other places were critical of William Shatner not attending Mr. Nimoy's memorial service due to his commitment to a charity event in Florida. Well....today I came upon this blog, which has a very good reason why Shatner did NOT appear. http://www.newsfromme.com/page/5/ (about halfway down).

After reading this, my appreciation of Mr. Shatner went up quite few notches, for the exact reason the blogger stated in HIS appreciations.

I hope some of us here will have the same feelings...Shatner gave up quite a bit for the Nimoy family's privacy...

Good for Bill, although I didn't criticize him in the first place.

Can I just take a moment and say what a bunch of bastards these Westboro idiots are? Picketing the funerals of gays, servicemen while their loved ones are grieving. They picketed the funeral of Mr. Rogers for crying out loud and they were planning to picket Leonards's? Screw the lot of you.

 

[Hatshepsut]

Failure to attend a funeral need not connote lack of respect and the TMZ-type starshooter peanut gallery should just butt out. It's none of their business.

...what a bunch of bastards these Westboro idiots are?

I'm given to understand Westboro Baptist's activities have been curbed lately. They can't be kept off the main public street, but they're no longer allowed to enter cemeteries or go within 100 feet of the property of funeral homes. They've also showed up less often since Fred Phelps died.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

This may or may not be appropriate on this particular page...but....after Leonard Nimoy passed away. a lot of people, both here and other places were critical of William Shatner not attending Mr. Nimoy's memorial service due to his commitment to a charity event in Florida. Well....today I came upon this blog, which has a very good reason why Shatner did NOT appear. http://www.newsfromme.com/page/5/ (about halfway down).

After reading this, my appreciation of Mr. Shatner went up quite few notches, for the exact reason the blogger stated in HIS appreciations.

I hope some of us here will have the same feelings...Shatner gave up quite a bit for the Nimoy family's privacy...

I did a search on the page you linked to, and neither Shatner nor Nimoy turned up. Funeral and charity don't show up either. Where is the passage you're referring to?

 

[WHF]

I did a search on the page you linked to, and neither Shatner nor Nimoy turned up. Funeral and charity don't show up either. Where is the passage you're referring to?

http://www.newsfromme.com/2015/03/20/about-that-funeral-thing/

 

[KTJ]

I had no idea Westboro had intended to show up. Thank you for this.

 

[Richard Baker]

I'm given to understand Westboro Baptist's activities have been curbed lately. They can't be kept off the main public street, but they're no longer allowed to enter cemeteries or go within 100 feet of the property of funeral homes. They've also showed up less often since Fred Phelps died.

I wonder if anybody protested at Phelps' funeral?
"God hates self aggrandizing small minded bigots who try to whore the cameras no matter how many innocent people they hurt in their time of grief"
Never mind- that would never fit on a sign

 

[Hatshepsut]

Shatner is a millionaire who need not give his critics the time of day. I doubt the affair damaged his reputation with his fans. You get too old for this kind of sniping; once over 80 you don't have too much time left.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

http://www.newsfromme.com/2015/03/20/about-that-funeral-thing/

Thanks. I could have told people without looking that Shatner wouldn't simply blow off Nimoy's memorial. It was obvious that, for some reason, he had no choice.

 

[bbailey861]

Thanks for linking that. It was a good read. I'm certainly glad the Westboro plans were thwarted. Idiots.

 

[Hatshepsut]

I could have told people without looking that Shatner wouldn't simply blow off Nimoy's memorial.

Besides that he has almost certainly kept in touch with Nimoy's survivors, and will stand by them long after the glitz parade forgets about it.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Mark Evanier's blog is one of my favorites. I try to visit it every day, and he made an excellent point about the Nimoy funeral. My respect for Mr. Shatner has definitely gone up a few notches. It's too bad that this story wasn't as widely disseminated as all the ones bashing him for not going.

 

[Hatshepsut]

Mark Evanier's blog is one of my favorites...

He did a lot of the writing for Scooby Doo on Hannah-Barbera and was editor-in-chief in that firm's comic book division. Thanks for alerting me to the existence of his blog; I somehow didn't expect it from an old-schooler with a heavy schedule.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Mark Evanier's blog is one of my favorites...

He did a lot of the writing for Scooby Doo on Hannah-Barbera and was editor-in-chief in that firm's comic book division. Thanks for alerting me to the existence of his blog; I somehow didn't expect it from an old-schooler with a heavy schedule.

He's written a lot of great comic books, too. Groo and Crossfire are two of my favorites, and I actually own a Doug Wildey page from his run on Blackhawk.

 

[HaplessCrewman]

At the end of the day, it's Shatner's decision and his alone.

But consider this...

If you were in charge of the charity event that had Mr. Shatner scheduled, would you deny a request from him to attend the funeral of his life-long friend?

Are there no valid grounds for cancellation - ever? Must we honor our commitments, keep our words, at all costs? The knowledge that Nimoy would probably prefer Shatner keep his obligations is heartbreaking.

A wise man once said "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."

 

[Ithekro]

"The needs of the many outweight the needs of the few". Charity events help many. Funerals help few. The one being honored most is dead afterall.

 

[Maurice]

Frankly, it's none of our goddamned business how people mourn or don't mourn. I've lost both my parents and let me tell you that anyone who would have been so impudent as to tell me how I was supposed to act or react would have earned a bloody nose as their well-deserved reply.

 

[HaplessCrewman]

"The needs of the many outweight the needs of the few". Charity events help many. Funerals help few. The one being honored most is dead afterall.

True. I would not presume to debate you.

Later, Kirk did choose to sacrifice everything for the sake of friendship. But that was a mere fiction, no?

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Frankly, it's none of our goddamned business how people mourn or don't mourn. I've lost both my parents and let me tell you that anyone who would have been so impudent as to tell me how I was supposed to act or react would have earned a bloody nose as their well-deserved reply.

Exactly.

 

[EnsignHarper]

Just a little FYI - My mom is from Kansas. so I have a lot of relatives out there, including a cousin in Topeka, where the actual Westboro Church is. So when visiting there a couple of years back, she took us to the neighborhood. The church, of course, is as fortified as a prison these days, but directly across from it, someone bought a house and they have done this:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Equality-House/427599210663452

so they get an eyeful everyday leaving the place!