Family

"Family is them as treats you that way"

Deathe always held to that adage.  Most of my friends in Olathe I met through Deathe.  His college friends and roommates gamed together and I joined games and got to know the people.  We became something of a family. They all married, most started having kids but we managed to get a large pool of people working together and have stayed pretty close.  Even now they are family to Deathe.  When we needed someone to walk with Deathe one evening everyone came out or was were willing to help out in any way possible.  Some went to comfort Bella.  Some came to walk with Deathe.  Others offered to bring food and diet coke and to provide logistics.  Deathe has a support system for him built up because he treated his good friends as family and they treat him as family.  

Deathe has his biological siblings.  He has his parents who have always been supportive and helpful.  I think that Deathe's life is richer than most in that he has gotten to choose more of his family than just his spouse.  His close friends are his brothers and sisters in deed.  He has an extended family that isn't cousins, uncles and aunts but the people he associates with.  

And this ethic has extended to his children.  Whether biological children or not he has loved his children all the same and equally.  This is an exceedingly rare trait in a man.  Family meant more to Deathe than it does for most people.  You could measure Deathe's concern for family by the time he spent with his children interested and involved in their lives.  He amazed teachers and medical workers dealing with his family for his involvement and knowledge of the children and their needs and concerns.

His open house, his open family and his ability to extend true paternal or fraternal love to those around him marks Deathe as a man with attributes that many may not associate with Deathe.  Because of how he communicated or how he socially interacted it may not be obvious that Deathe is a man with a great capacity to love and a great concern for those around him.  Those that know him best cannot escape noticing this from him.  I think the single greatest qualities I can say about Deathe is that he loved.  He is a great father.  He is a great spouse.  He is a great brother.  Those blessed to be part of his family know of his straightforward, simple love.