Definition: Given a real-life anecdote of a complex ethical situation, generate a suitable title that describes the main event/root cause of the situation. Imagine that the given text is a social media post, and you have to write the title of the post, so the users can decide to read the main text or not.
Input: This happened a few years back when I was fresh out of high school and was half way through my second semester of college. My grandfather was very old and suffered from a multitude of health problems, everyone in the family knew he didn’t have much time left so they tried to visit him as much as possible. I tried to do the same but couldn’t very offer due to my heavy school and work schedule and him living six hours away. 

At this time I was suffering from severe depression bordering on suicidal. My then girlfriend at the time broke things off to pursue a much more attractive man as well as near this same time one of my childhood friends had just killed himself. Safe to say with everything going on I was not doing well. 

So when i got the news that my grandfather has passed I was crushed. I had a great relationship with him since I was little and on Christmas he would always buy me a baseball cap with something funny, in that cheesy grandpa humor kind of way. My father told me the date of the funeral and to be there. 

I made up an excuse that I was busy, I don’t know why I lied but at the time I didn’t want to say that I couldn’t handle anymore in my life. 

My father was furious and called me a terrible person. I get terrible but I still didn’t go. Cut to afterwards. I was uninvited from all extended family get togethers as well as being ignored or pushed away whenever I made contact. At one point when I was home my dad had been drinking and called me a terrible son that never loved my grandfather. 

It’s been a few years now and things are slowly getting back to normal but this has been eating at me for a long time whether or not I was in the wrong. 

not going to my great grandfathers funeral