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But we don't know the whole story there, do we? The comments under that article/clickbait sum up some possible concerns quite nicely:
1) Jewish funerals (like Nimoy's) are quick...none of this "Keeping your body on ice for a few days" jazz. You're dead, you stick around a few minutes while your family sets up the wake, then you go right into the ground. Shatner would thus be receiving word of the funeral arrangements on very short notice.
2) Shatner's 83 years old. He might not have the vigor to drop everything he's doing and rush to catch a Concord from Florida to California.
3) You do not want to break a contract with the Red Cross. Ever.
4) We don't know what's going through Shatner's mind. Maybe he is just being a self-important ass. Or maybe he's afraid that his own presence will drown the solemnity of Nimoy's funeral. Or maybe he doesn't want to confront his friend's death (which would be tantamount to confronting his own looming mortality) and would rather hold an online candlelight vigil and honor Nimoy in his own way.
5) [Insert other unforeseen circumstance here.] Remember: In 1924, the people of early Communist Russia roundly berated Leon Trotsky for missing Vladimir Lenin's funeral. None of them knew that the only reason why Trotsky missed Lenin's funeral was because Josef Stalin lied to Trotsky about the funeral's date (as part of Stalin's plot to steal the Communist Party's leadership from Trotsky; unfortunately for Trotsky, the plot succeeded). There could be another reason for Shatner to miss Nimoy's funeral, one which no one's thinking about or talking about (yes, perhaps even a meddler working behind the scenes).
...or, for all we know, Shatner might surprise us and make it to the funeral after all. Let's just wait and see how things play out before we start throwing the tomatoes, shall we?
1) Jewish funerals (like Nimoy's) are quick...none of this "Keeping your body on ice for a few days" jazz. You're dead, you stick around a few minutes while your family sets up the wake, then you go right into the ground. Shatner would thus be receiving word of the funeral arrangements on very short notice.
2) Shatner's 83 years old. He might not have the vigor to drop everything he's doing and rush to catch a Concord from Florida to California.
3) You do not want to break a contract with the Red Cross. Ever.
4) We don't know what's going through Shatner's mind. Maybe he is just being a self-important ass. Or maybe he's afraid that his own presence will drown the solemnity of Nimoy's funeral. Or maybe he doesn't want to confront his friend's death (which would be tantamount to confronting his own looming mortality) and would rather hold an online candlelight vigil and honor Nimoy in his own way.
5) [Insert other unforeseen circumstance here.] Remember: In 1924, the people of early Communist Russia roundly berated Leon Trotsky for missing Vladimir Lenin's funeral. None of them knew that the only reason why Trotsky missed Lenin's funeral was because Josef Stalin lied to Trotsky about the funeral's date (as part of Stalin's plot to steal the Communist Party's leadership from Trotsky; unfortunately for Trotsky, the plot succeeded). There could be another reason for Shatner to miss Nimoy's funeral, one which no one's thinking about or talking about (yes, perhaps even a meddler working behind the scenes).
...or, for all we know, Shatner might surprise us and make it to the funeral after all. Let's just wait and see how things play out before we start throwing the tomatoes, shall we?
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Wyren Caul-of-Amber, alchemist
Tirah Het-Nanu, courtesan