Yeah, you got your reasons and I think the "court" will give you pass, but oddly, you might have to appear in person.
My friend's service is this Friday @ 9:00 am PDT. I'll sit quiet in her memory and bid her farewell and a good voyage in the next realms. She did a lot of good and we had a terrific rapport.
A living friend is working on producing some type of event on grief. I'm too committed to other things to do more than attend a few of their planning meetings. I had to drop back as soon I thought I might diplomatically.
Just completed (I hope) some paperwork on an Exxon explosion & fire from 1993! Its for my dead father, we might get something out of the class action, but he'll get none of it.
Capitalist justice at its finest. r