User blog comment:ForeverDesperate/RIP Kathryn Joosten/@comment-392210-20120603034150

It wasn't insensitive, don't worry. Marc Cherry asked Kathryn Joosten to use that story twice, and she allowed him to both times, and finally paid it some justice in the final season. Kathryn wanted to show that story to the world, and she was able to. God bless her soul, she was both a person and an actor to look up to.