Chris and I were talking about weddings and marriages and I had an interesting question, or, perhaps thought-stream would be more accurate.

Let’s take the D& D realms and have a posit:

1) Assume that there is an Elvish Catholic Orthodox church.
2) Elves can’t be resurrected.

Now we get to the real interesting thing: In catholic wedding ceremonies, there is a “till death do us part” clause (looking at it from the POV of a contract. If one of the two dies, the other is effectively ‘released’ from the contract.

Now, let’s just say that two humans(Sam and Suzie) convert to this religion, and are married. Sam stays home, and Suzie dies fighting a grumpy troll. She is later resurrected. Meanwhile, Sam, trying to cope with Suzie’s untimely demise has sought the comfort of Arwen, a comely elven lass. Suzie returns and finds Sam locked in some unforseen pose with Arwen and a feather duster, and is incredibly mad. She attempts to ‘divorce’ him and take him for all his inherited wealth, citing grounds of adultery.

Sam countermands with the fact that once Suzie died, they were no longer married, and he was free to seek out any companionship that he desired.

Now throw in the fact that Arwen is really a money grubbing floozabel who has no desire to be with Sam, and in fact has her eyes on Elhand the Half-Elf gardner from next door.

Does the fact that Suzie died nullify the marriage, or does the ressurection constitute grounds on which the marriage is still legal?

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COMMENT
AUTHOR: Jason [Visitor]
DATE: 04/07/2006 12:59:13 PM
I’m pretty sure that when the death trigger was invoked the marriage was set to NULL and when the resurrect human callback subsequently occurred trying to access the marriage caused this exception. I recommend a reboot to clear memory.
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COMMENT
AUTHOR: dworst [Visitor]
URL: http://dworst.blogspot.com
DATE: 04/04/2006 07:22:20 AM
Before I can make my final opinion, I need to know what color was the feather duster?

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