Comment by spankibalt

> "As jchallis used the idiomatic term in the latter, more literal sense, I can understand people getting confused."

Well... one cannot choose family for one is always bound to them by biology. Does that matter? No. One's life is more than that. One can leave family in the dust, a choice many of Adam's targets had to make to continue living, while others never even got to make that choice. Either way, equating (and let's be frank: most often elevating) yesterday's "hero" to family status certainly is a choice.

In this spirit: "Here's a nickel kid, buy yourself a better eulogy."