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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Monetizing a tragedy in any form gives me pause.

I don’t understand the rush to establish a foundation or charity, write a book, become a speaker, establish oneself as a paid talking head/expert.

It’s narcissistic.

I get the grief and shock and trauma but question why any funding or outreach or expertise might be used in a less public manner. Establish a scholarship. Contribute towards a well known project or quietly give to local charities that are meaningful and significant to you.

Kind of gross to realize that you can make a full time job out of grief and loss and literally profit from it all.[/quote]

I completely understand why parents would start of foundation aimed at preventing similar deaths of other children.  It's a way to feel that their child did not die in vain or to feel they can take some control in a situation that makes you feel completely powerless and out of control.  I don't think it is necessarily narcissistic.  [/quote]

PP and maybe nuance or distinction here is must a brand new charity/foundation/specific business model be started though and not align yourself with an established cause or foundation?

Was thinking of some domestic abuse charity that Denise Brown started in reaction to her sister Nicole Brown Simpson’s murder. The whole thing fizzled out - I looked. The few locally founded “memorial” fundraisers I know about seem to run only 3 years.

Just saying would be better to join a tried and true 
organization but that circumvents the vanity and attention seeking that is at play here[/quote]

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