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[pitofsky]

So we were in the Rivermill last night; and this guy had a seizure, or an overdose, or a heart attack, or something; and he died. Of course, everyone became very somber for awhile. Which is fine. Death is pretty intense, and being in proximity to it is sobering. But then people over do it. This always happens. People start acting more upset than it

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[splifford]

some people freak out because they are shocked or weirded out by someone dying in their vicinity, regardless of whether they knew that person or not. other people might freak out because it shoves their own mortality in their faces, and some folk aren't good at dealing with that. and some people might cry and wring their hands and wail because that's what they think they're supposed to do. also, sharing grief in public (with friends or strangers) has become a big thing these last few years. i'm not saying i agree with that, but just that it happens more and more these days.

it doesn't make you a bad person because you didn't mourn the death of someone you didn't know. it doesn't make good people out of the mourners, either. everyone deals with death differently. everyone mourns differently. chalk it up to the strange and wearisome thing called humanity.