Rebecca was emotionally strong because she didn't fall apart and lose her mind. She felt bad for Max and Jonah and also for Dina so she tried to be helpful. She picked both Nina and Adam up from the airport. That was very nice of her to make her self available for errands and chores so Max's parents could concentrate on him. At least they didn't have to worry about minor details like transportation for out of town relatives.
Very nice post, freespeech, and a good reminder of how Rebecca SHOULD be remembered-- helping Max's parents deal with the myriad details of a crisis right up until her very suspicious death. There are so many things a lesser person might have done-- stayed a day or so, then left town so as not to be in the way, etc. But Rebecca didn't just go thru the motions-- she was busting her tail to help whereever she could.
She was banned from the bedside in ICU (either by Dina's edict or by Rebecca's own sensitivity to the sitution), and instead, was knocking herself out shuttling Jonah's ex- SIL and her son from the airport, shuttling Jonah's friend to the airport, delivering Nina's luggage, etc. AND getting her own sister taken care of and back home and out of the way of the crisis. What I see is a woman committed to helping these people,
EVEN helping the ex-wife who hated her
before the accident, and the ex-wife's sister-- who presumably wasn't Rebecca's best friend.
She didn't disappear. She didn't turn off her phone and become unavailable. She was THERE, present, and accounted for every minute until her tragic and very suspicious death. She was IN the hospital at the restaurant. The police could have found her in person
at any moment if they had wanted to, so I'm just not buying the story that Rebecca was somehow "ducking" the investigator's phone call. I call complete BS on that. No investigator tries once and gives up. If it was necessary or imperative to speak with her (either LE or the doctors), they would have shown up with lights and sirens.
IMO, Rebecca acted with
incredible grace and poise under pressure during the first day of Max's hospitalization, and the last days of her life. She was MORE than kind to the family of a woman who hated her
before the accident happened. She demonstrated a lot more class, and a lot more humanity and kindness in her actions after the accident toward Dina and her sister, than Dina and her sister have shown since Rebecca's death toward her. And THAT tells me a lot about Rebecca's character and integrity, compared to what I can see of Dina and Nina's character and integrity. Rebecca acted with class and integrity. IMO, their public comments about Rebecca have been tasteless, uncouth, and vindictive in a very immature and low class way. And if the public comments are this immature and tasteless, how much worse might their private comments be? Think about that for a minute.
I hope Rebecca is remembered for those acts of kindness, and her helpfulness, loyalty, and integrity in the days before she died, rather than for the hate and nastiness spewed in the media about her from these 2 women after she died. Even a year later, Dina continues to spew hateful and tasteless comments about dead Rebecca in interviews and TV appearances. Even if she did commit suicide, that is just so trashy. Think about that-- smearing a woman who may have killed herself in a monent of true mental crisis. Either way-- murdered or suicide, it is incredibly trashy to speak ill of the dead in this manner in public interviews. None of those comments had anything to do with Max's death, or reopening an investigation into Max's death-- just pure trash for the sake of saying something nasty. That just tells me so much about a person. And none of it is good, IMO. Then again, money can't always buy class.[/quote]
Thank you - very well said. I believe Rebecca went the whole 9 yards to be helpful to everyone. I can only hope I would be that big of a person in a similar situation.
