EvilChuck

What are the rules when people die? If there are two events involving death happening at one time, are we allowed to feel sadder for the event we feel more emotionally connected with? Or is it simply the sheer number of deaths involved that decide where our grief should go?

I ask this, obviously because of the now closed Amy Winehouse thread. There were people who felt the need on more than one occassion to bring up the fact that there had been attacks in Norway, and how they were more tragic than Amy Winehouse's death purely because of the circumstances around them.

I dont have a problem with people having that opinion, but I DO have a problem with those people voicing this opinion at inappropriate times. Amy Winehouse's death, the attacks in Norway, the Somalian famine, the deaths in the military, all of them are tragic, but all of them are separate issues, that should (in my opinion) be kept separate.

Personally, I find it very disrespectful to both those who passed and those who are grieving for anyone to openly compare death tolls, or compare circumstances of the deaths. In effect, by comparing tragedies you are telling someone that their grief is irrellevant if they dont agree with you.

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