Website Hope, Intent, & Shortcomings

A Celebration of Life is different than a funeral. Funerals serve the bereaved ones, the ones left behind. Linda did not want a funeral or service. Accordingly, the best response from those who knew and loved her may be to acknowledge her passing, yes, but to more recognize her life and what it meant to those who loved her, and to the world.

That is the intent of this website: a celebration of Linda’s life, to memorialize her accomplishments and her most elevated self.

The Eulogy, the Timeline, and the Themes pages attempt to do that in the best way possible.

Beyond what a Memorial traditionally addresses, aspects of Linda’s life become more biographical. Additional detail and reflections from her life partner can enrich appreciation of what Linda accomplished yet may feel irrelevant or even controversial to others. “Subjective” can be interpreted as “self-centered”. Despite every effort to keep the focus on Linda, various accounts inevitably include very personal reflections and opinions. To keep the primary focus on what matters most, therefore, additional detail is as much as possible reserved for password-protected pages readers can access only if they wish.

Please respect that any subjective and in-depth descriptions inadvertently left on the main webpages were intended to illustrate deeper and perhaps the most admirable aspects of Linda’s humanity, and as part of bereavement and healing.

Life is all of that. Life and death are certainly all of that.

After all is said and written, this website hopes simply to gloriously display Linda’s life as an example of what it means to be an embodied soul, a human being. That is what to celebrate, to remember, to hold dear in our hearts as we carry on with the rest of our lives.