# TubaDiva Memorial Fund (for her family) is finally up **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 22, 2020, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-memorial-fund-for-her-family-is-finally-up/918709 "2020-08-22T03:22:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-memorial-fund-for-her-family-is-finally-up/918709/21 "2020-08-24T01:46:00Z")
Done for both. I agree that the Zotti organised funds should not be diverted. ---
**Author:** ![basslinemz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@basslinemz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/basslinemz)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-memorial-fund-for-her-family-is-finally-up/918709/22 "2020-08-24T01:48:47Z")
Please don’t feel any pressure to do so - I mentioned a while ago that there’d be some effort like this separate from the one Ed started, and it just wouldn’t be right to mess with that after the fact. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-memorial-fund-for-her-family-is-finally-up/918709/23 "2020-08-24T04:37:31Z")
I heard back from Ed, and the answer is what I expected it to be. Moving funds from one to the other is not possible, which renders the discussion about whether it should happen or not irrelevant. It can’t be done. Those who wish to contribute to the family fund are of course welcome to do so. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-memorial-fund-for-her-family-is-finally-up/918709/24 "2020-08-24T14:22:33Z")
Perfectly okay. 👍🏼 Worth asking. ---
**Author:** ![basslinemz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@basslinemz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/basslinemz)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-memorial-fund-for-her-family-is-finally-up/918709/25 "2020-08-27T01:10:09Z")
$1121 so far - a good start! ---
**Author:** ![basslinemz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@basslinemz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/basslinemz)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-memorial-fund-for-her-family-is-finally-up/918709/26 "2020-09-20T01:36:19Z")
Apparently I’m really bad at this. Only four donations since the last update… Many thanks to those who donated. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-memorial-fund-for-her-family-is-finally-up/918709/27 "2020-09-23T04:19:07Z")
I suspect that many would only want to give once in Tuba’s name. But that’s ok, everyone who wanted to will have donated, and you probably picked up some who saw that other fund had well and truly exceeded its goal and held off. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-memorial-fund-for-her-family-is-finally-up/918709/28 "2020-09-23T21:40:17Z")
The other issue is that the OP really hasn’t made the case that the family need the money. ---
**Author:** ![basslinemz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@basslinemz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/basslinemz)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-memorial-fund-for-her-family-is-finally-up/918709/29 "2020-09-26T01:14:42Z")
I’m usually a fairly cynical person, but that’s a low I refuse to stoop to. If you don’t want to or cannot take part, that’s fine - we’ve all got our own stories, and our own problems. But don’t sit there and demand a means test for a voluntary expression of basic human decency ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-memorial-fund-for-her-family-is-finally-up/918709/30 "2020-09-26T01:29:39Z")
In the original TubaDiva passing thread, it was brought up several times by a couple different people who knew her that her mother needed help. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-memorial-fund-for-her-family-is-finally-up/918709.md?page=1)