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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand. In my world you don't go on business trips and you reschedule non-life threatening surgery to go to your parent's funeral.

I imagine I would feel the same way about whatever the siblings have going on.

There's no date that's, "Sorry, I can't make it" unless you are in the hospital or physically unable to be there for some reason.[/quote]

I thought all that was weird too but maybe these children don't like this parent so much?[/quote]

This.  Even world leaders reschedule meetings for family funerals.
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The rest of the world is totally different than us in this regard.  Imagine if the sibling announced at this important meeting that his parent's funeral was going on and he missed it for the meeting.  I guarantee no one in the room would understand his presence at the meeting and not at the funeral.

I am more sympathetic to the surgery having had to schedule one for my child.  Outside of the ER, everything is considered elective because you pick the date.  We're talking brain surgery, Heart surgery.  So it could be important but not considered an "emergency" by the hospital.  For that one, I'd ask: would the grandparent be okay with having their grandchild's surgery moved for the grandparent's funeral.  Many GP would want the surgery to go on as scheduled.[/quote]

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