Well, a friend of mine is having a memorial service for her recently deceased father. I never knew her father or mother, but I am friends with her and she made a point of sending me an invite (albeit an informal invite).
I am not good with these things because I never know how to act or what to say. As some of you know, I am kind of a coarse person with some lack in the social graces.
I don't know if this is an ethical question or not, but I am not sure how to frame it. Bottom line do I go or not?
I like her and want to be a good friend, but feel like I would be doing her a better by not going. As I said I am never good at these things so I don't know what to do.


I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe