Perhaps the family members are afraid they will break down if they relax too much?
Don.......that was a real good explanation. I never thought about that possibility.
I notice these things because I took care of my mother in the nursing home until she died from her stroke. God, was it hard....every day for three years.
But, on my tombstone, I’d rather have engraved something like “here lies a man who brushed his own feelings aside and cared about others” rather than “here lies a man who DIDN’T give a crap about anybody but himself!”
Mark