I think anyone with a mental illness still should have the right to go to their parent's funeral, after all it's a family member that has passed on...and same for getting anything their loved one may have left for them. I had one thing to remember my mother by, her favorite charm bracelet which she gave to me the last time I got to see her. One of my foster parents took it from me and never told me why. Why would a foster parent do that, to try and break off my love for my own mother?