Or, do you just mourn the ones you read about in the newspaper or see on tv?
For those who mourn for total strangers, doesn't mourning get a little pointless, tiresome & unproductive after awhile?
2006-10-04 04:33:02 · 19 answers · asked by Left the building 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have lost all my grandparents, my parents and 3 of my 5 brothers.
There is NO way that my sense of loss is anywhere near what I felt when they died.
And, am at a loss to understand how anyone could claim to be mourning anything or anyone with which he has no personal relationship.
2006-10-04 05:07:41 · update #1
I knjow what you're talking about. I have enough anxiety to give a f about these other tragedies.
2006-10-04 04:34:52 · answer #1 · answered by Staceyflourpond 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Well, maybe I'm way off base, or maybe I'm just not getting your point, but I have to disagree.
If nobody but his family mourned the death of Adam Walsh, would we have the National Missing Children's Registry? If only those who had a child die of leukemia researched a cure, wouldn't we be very far behind in finding a cure?
No, I don't know all the people that have died, and I can't possibly mourn them all. But does that make it wrong to mourn the ones I do know about?
Our empathy is what keeps us striving to make the world a better place, don't you think?
2006-10-04 11:50:21 · answer #2 · answered by ♥Mira♥ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure. I really don't think they mourn though. I certainly don't mourn. But I guess they place themselves in the situation they see and wonder how they would feel. They feel sorry for what has happened. But feeling that does, in it's own way, help... it pushes people to DO something about the situations they see... probably hoping that if they act towards it now, hopefully it won't happen to them or someone they do know.
2006-10-04 13:02:11 · answer #3 · answered by Kithy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have a heart, you mourn. I mourn for innocent little Christian girls slaughtered my a mad man who was angry at God. I morn for their families who lost these precious little children. I morn for the murderer's wife, and children who will live with this for the rest of their lives.
Morning is not unproductive. It drives us to our knees, seeking the only One Who can bring peace to broken hearts. It also brings the Christian Community together to hold up each others arms. This was a tragedy for the Amish, and the rest of the Christian Community in Lancaster County. The Morning has brought diverse Christians together to support, and offer comfort. That is a good thing.
2006-10-04 11:50:37 · answer #4 · answered by Minister 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people mourn over total strangers, I guess. Not necessarily the ones that we know nothing about, but yes - the ones we read about in the newspapers, see on tv, etc. Some people may feel some sort of connection with these "strangers". You can nearly know everything about a celebrity and someone famous in your city/town without even meeting them.
2006-10-04 11:40:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think people just pay respect to those that they have heard about. If the whole world mourned the 1000s of people that died every day, no one would do anything but pop anit depressant pills all day long
You WhyNotAskDon are a cold hearted pr*ck
2006-10-04 11:36:57 · answer #6 · answered by ηιgнт ѕтαя 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The loss of compassion for others, could cause the loss of civilization.I pray for all and yes I do mourn the death of a 'stranger', he is only a stranger because I did not know his name.
2006-10-04 11:58:33 · answer #7 · answered by Tinkerbelle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not that they die....we all do. It's the WAY in which they died that affects us.
How could we not grieve for the Amish girls and their families? The horrors they endured, the awful outcome.
Steve Irwin's tragic death was shocking in that it was so sudden and unusual.
I could go on, but I think you see my point.
I grieve for those that I know died sudden, tragic deaths, because for the most part (Steve Irwin excepted) these are not natural deaths. And so they affect us deeply.
I don't consider it pointless to grieve for someone I will never know. I consider it a show of humanity.
2006-10-04 11:44:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I do not mourn anyone I do not know. I might think something tragic and such. I do not think people shot in a school, are more important then someone killed in a mugging that you never hear about. In this society, we love to glamourize, saving the children. More people die in high school football each year, then in school shootings. Neither footbal, nor shootings in schools help the planet. Maybe we should try to rid the world of both?
2006-10-04 11:36:08 · answer #9 · answered by Arcturus R 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
How people mourn or "waste their time" is really up to individual.
Calling it pointless and unproductive is an opinion, not a query.
2006-10-04 11:42:24 · answer #10 · answered by dyke_in_heat 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
300,000 Sri Lankans and Indian died 8 years ago in a typhoon...
and 3 Americans from GA, TX and FL
honoring only some trivializes the rest of life
2006-10-04 11:39:59 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋