On Mourning

[ann_leckie]

I was going to make this a twitter thread, but while threads are a thing that works (more or less) on Twitter, making them can be kind of awkward. So I figured I’d blog this and link to it on Twitter.

So, I’ve been seeing some tweets and comments around that imply that someone(s) out there has been complaining that publicly mourning celebrities is

Comments

[asakiyume]

No, losing George Michael or David Bowie or Prince or Carrie Fisher probably isn’t even remotely like losing your aunt or your sister or your daughter. But it’s not nothing.

Well said. Lovely essay.

[paulliver]

I do find it strange that some people are so angry that some people are so sad, when they could just scroll on by.

But if you have a social media of 1,000,000,000, then 1% of 1% of people getting angry is still 100,000 and that's a lot of tweeting and FB posting.

[ada_hoffmann]

All of this. Thank you.