D'oh! I realised it was Ki-Adi Mundi when I hit the Post Reply button.
It never seemed so dumb to me, perhaps because in '99 I got into Buddhism and so many of the teachings about attachment I recognised in the PT. If you can't let go of what you fear to lose (to paraphrase that line from ROTS) then you do run a big risk - not that any of us would want to lose those close to us.