Grat Resa

Grat Resa was a philosopher who wrote a treatise on mourning stating that acknowledging the passing of a loved one was important to the healing process, and that getting enough rest was also part of the grieving process. By 232 BBY, during the High Republic Era, the scientist Avon Starros became familiar with Resa's treatise.

That year, while among a group stranded on the Outer Rim moon Wevo, Starros informed the Dalnan boy Honesty Weft of a plan the group had come up with while he was sleeping after an attack in which his father had died. When Weft questioned they had made the plan without him, Starros bluntly replied that his father had died, to which Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh told her to be more sensitive. Confused, the scientist quoted Resa's treatise, informing Weft the sleep had been good for his body. Rwoh then countered the scientist by noting science could not replace empathy, and Starros apologized to Weft.

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