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2/3/2013 6:53:36 PM
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Death
Death is usually something I am completely apathetic towards because most scenarios I imagine my self dying in are completely out of my control. And there are many preventable deaths I see on the news that most people would find to be somber but I take it in as every day life. I feel that in the event that there is a preventable death, not everyone will take the precautions to prevent them later on in the future, and I can't control what other people do, so I don't worry about it.
And when there is a death maybe near me, that I am unaffected by simply because I don't know the person, it is sad to know someone has died but I forget easily and soon.
If you're still reading I have a friend who I was talking with last night and she told me that someone's car crashed into a tree in front of her friend's neighborhood. And the texts she sent me pretty much implied she was really depressed by it. I asked her if she was affiliated with the person who died, she told me no. I asked her if she witnessed the accident and was traumatized from it, she told me no. So beyond those two reasons for being depressed about the death, I don't understand at all.
Help me understand. Have any of you ever had to psychologically deal with a death that was almost completely unrelated to you?
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Aw :)
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Eh, death has struck near me...two times before, if I remember correctly. First my grandfather on my dad's side, which I cried over, but only because I was just a kid and kinda looked up to the old guy. I don't feel anything towards it now, though. And the second was when my grandmother on my mom's side died about two years ago. The funny thing, I felt nothing about it when the news broke, and this woman had watched over me since birth pretty much, and was around even in the times just before she died. With those things in mind, the death of someone i'm not emotionally attached to carries no weight for me. It's for that reason i'm never really bothered by any or all of the murders and tragedies you hear about on the news today.
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4 RepliesLet me elaborate a little bit more though. I have never been just utterly devastated by the death of someone I never knew. I still get sad every time I see videos of 9/11, but that doesn't mean that I'm psychologically disturbed by it like some of the people who were first hand witnesses of it. I've never really been that sad about anyone's death, mostly because I haven't really had anyone very close to me die. A kid at my school drove into a tree and died last year. Sure I felt very sad but I didn't know him so I got over it quickly.
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It's the female feelings they make no sense.
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4 RepliesI got extremely depressed over the Sandy Hook ordeal. Anyone who didn't even feel a little nudge of sadness have no souls.
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Maybe she has experienced the death of someone extremely close to her? I've gotten emotional over deaths of people I have never met before but I consider myself extremely empathetic and dealing with death, multiple times and deaths that had huge impacts on my life, probably plays a role in that.
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2 Replies[quote]Have any of you ever had to psychologically deal with a death that was almost completely unrelated to you?[/quote] You mean, have I ever felt sad that somebody I didn't know died? Yes, I have.
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2 Repliessounds like you're justifying your own beliefs to yourself and we're just the audience
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Edited by Magical Robot: 2/3/2013 7:22:25 PMTo people like myself, life is precious, and when a life ends, something of irreplaceable value has been lost. Sometimes it needs to happen, but is still sad.
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Nobody experiences death
