d_henderson1810
Mid-Card Championship Winner
Picture this: Martha Hart is given a choice.
She can have her husband back, and all the luxuries of his pro-wrestling career are taken away. It will be as if he was a veterinarian for his whole life and they live as a family on a meager income, possibly ostracized from the greater Hart family for not following in the pro-wrestling tradition.
Or, she can keep the luxuries of what we fans have given her and remain a grieving widow who was married to a human being of Owen Hart's quality.
Owen Hart had a choice, too.
He could have said "No" to the angle. What would have been the worst that would have happened? He gets fired.
I don't know how educated Owen was, but there are other jobs around. He could have started a wrestling school (similar to the Dungeon), retired (and he had saved a lot of money, so didn't need to work). He could have joined Bret in WCW. Owen had options. He had name-value, especially in Canada. You don't think that someone wouldn't offer him another job?
Owen shouldn't have done it, and should have refused to do it. I heard that Vince secretly respects those who stand up to him.
This way, Martha would be happy, because Owen is out of that "evil" company, and Owen would be alive today.
Also, her brother-in-law Bret Hart is a cautionary tale. Once, his biggest problem in life was being screwed over in Montreal was his biggest problem. But then a dud run in WCW, his career ending in a screwed-up move, two strokes, divorce, a motorcycle accident, and deaths to his brother, Owen, both his parents, and friend Chris Benoit, who he had dinner with him, Nancy and Daniel, gave Bret a massive reality check and taught him, that things could always be worse than the current problem you are dwelling on. Martha should learn that, as bad as Owen's death is, she still has her kids and other good things in her life.