Asks self: "Is that an acronym or text speak"

What have you done to us Hermione?

Me either. There shouldn't be a stigma against it either - people express their emotion in different ways.

I agree especially since I'm the same way.

Well, I think we have to take into account which family members passed away first. Like, you wouldn't cry if your mother died? Or is it more for family members that you're not particularly close with?

Either way, I suppose James is right. People deal with things differently.

I didn't cry when my mother passed even though everyone at the funeral was bawling. I have this defense mechanism where I end up laughing during funerals and I was trying to control myself from smiling/laughing but I did have a moment before she passed in her final days when I did break down and cry. It didn't cry when my father passed either. Just not a funerals type of person. So immediate family or distant relatives it doesn't matter. I don't cry at funerals like my other family members. I didn't cry at my uncle's funeral either.

I've read poetry at pretty much every family funeral since I was 10... so yeah, I'm pretty stoic.

Although I gotta be honest, seeing the strongest men I know cry almost breaks me, every time.

I've never had anyone I really know die so I've never tested it, but I'm the same way. Whenever something gets me choked up I get an uncontrollable laugh. It's usually just one laugh, just enough to force down the real emotion I'm feeling.

I cried more when my last dog died than the last person I knew to die. Confession.

I cried more at a funeral for someone I didn't know, than for someone I did.

Mostly because literally my only memory of this person was her body wasting away in a hospital bed and her son trying to comfort her as her soul drifted from her body (if you have ever doubted the existence of the human soul, let me tell you, you KNOW when it's on its way out).

anyway uh

this kid I work with really made me ill today because he passively admitted to relapsing into (unspecified) drug addiction and I don't know, it just made me really sad.

you don't need that in your life, kid.

I think I am capable of murder.

I need several, several, several hours of therapy.