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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was a kid, I missed my great-grandmother's 100th birthday for a sports tournament. I don't know why my mother let me do that at 16. Decades later, I was looking at the video and photos with family. I wished that I had been at the birthday party and spent that important milestone with family. As you may have guessed, the tournament has yielded zero levels of importance in my life.

Skip the tournament. No one will care or notice, and there will be thousands more just like it in the life of a travel sports family[/quote]

My relative missed a grandparent's funeral due to a middle school academic competition out of state (they didn't even tell the child about the death until it was over). Only grandchild out of 23 who was not there. It remains a bit of a sore spot for that individual 50 years later. [/quote]

I would have had my kid miss it too.   The relative had already passed, going to the funeral doesn't change that.   Be there for the important people in your lives while they are still living, not after they are dead.[/quote]

Everyone grieving the honored loved one is who you go to a funeral for.  Funerals are not for the dead.  They are for gathering the family with live, strengthening the family bond.  I would be livid to be left out when my 23 other cousins were part of it.

When my granny died, my first cousins from all over the world came.  Many of us didn’t k so each other as kids and that weekend was a huge bonding weekend.  We still talk about it 30 years later.  Funerals are for the living.  [/quote]

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