- Jay Ashworth Well played, sir.
Well played. - Robert Luis Rabello May you find peace in his passing. May your family find comfort in their time of grief.
- Sally McLennan Really well done
- Frances Braswell well said Alan Petrillo
- Elissa Malcohn Well said.
- Susan Lewis Paciga Well said, Alan. I'm sorry. I also lost a very difficult father, and that fact that he was difficult didn't make it any easier or make me miss him any less. Hugs.
- Roxie Emery Carpenter Well said my friend. He was fortunate to have had a son like you.
- Adam Athan sounds like what I heard and my fathers funeral-respect Alan Petrillo
- Gregg Ryan Alan... I am sorry for your loss.
Let’s
be real here: Dad was a difficult man to live with. When he died there
were people who would have danced on his grave. Some of his own
children are among them.
But I’m not going to stand up here and enumerate the many faults of a man who is no longer around to defend himself.
This
ceremony is called a “celebration of life”. It is for us, the living,
to find something to celebrate. We can celebrate ourselves. We
survived. We’re here. We aren’t here for Henry Joseph Petrillo, who is
now beyond caring. We are here for each other.
It is for us,
the living, to remember, and to choose what we remember best. There
were good times. Let us remember them. There were bad times. While we
cannot forget them, let their memories grow dim with time.
But
we should also find something about anyone’s life which can be
celebrated. Whatever you may think of our father, the one thing we can
all agree on is that he was an excellent doctor. As a pain manager he
was without equal. He took the complicated cases that other pain
managers had given up on and found solutions for them. Whatever you may
think of him as a person, as a parent, as a business partner, nobody
can deny that he was a great doctor. Let us celebrate that. Let that
be his legacy.
Let us, the living, continue on.
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