Personally, I don't feel too much about Death. If a person who I know or love dies, then I'm upset.
I'll mourn them, usually for quite a while. It's an absence of a person or even an animal. It's a change. A change we don't like. Because we can't see anything that benefits us from the death of our loved ones, we question their deaths and are saddened by it.
Incidentally, you don't feel saddened for a person who has died for reasons that benefit yourself. You wouldn't have been saddened to hear that Adolf Riddler was dead. You'd of been glad. The world is cleansed of an evil man as far as you know. It's in your benefit that he died.
However, that again said, If you're like me, I doubt you mourn much for the men in Military Service who are out in action for your country. When I see the News that another three have died in a foreign country, I am sad. Not because they've died or that they've gone, but more so because of it's purposeless, or rather, how it was easily preventable. Those soilders die and I don't mourn them, just the fact that if we weren't at war, they wouldn't have had to die. As previously mentioned, they didn't die for a benefit towards myself. Surely if they had lived instead of being killed, they would have gone on to do something that benefited me. Killing the enemy, protecting my views, blah blah blah... However I don't feel sad that they didn't die for any reason that benefited myself or my people, so to speak.
When it comes down to cases like 9/11, I wasn't sad. If anything, I was annoyed purely because it was all over the news and Tv for the next week and I couldn't watch my cartoons.
I was about 6. I didn't know what was happening. I didn't understand that people had died. I just saw two buildings covered in smoke, then moved on. It didn't affect me as a child in anyway. Whether that's just because I was a child or because I'm British, I don't know. I just didn't understand what had happened. When I got older and was told about it, what really happened, I still wasn't entirely saddened. That probably sounds like it's just because I'm British, but similarly, when the 7/7 events happened, Bombings on London Underground trains and a Bus, I didn't entirely worry myself over it then. At this age, I sort of understood what was going on but couldn't take in the whole of it, nor could I understand what it meant. I've kept myself like that since then.
Whenever I see of a national charities asking for money to save the poor kids in Africa, I don't fell sorry for them.
I know that no matter how much we donate into there, they won't see a difference. Their governments just waste it away on Guns and pointless stuff not helping their own people. THey're essentially barbarians, scum. I have never directly given money to a charity that goes out to Africa.
Every year in Britain, we do "Comic Relief" where everyone does sponsorships and works up money to donate to Africans. I never give into that. We also have a National annual charity called "Children in Need" It's much similar, but sadly not as promoted as Comic Relief. This one gives all of it's money to charities in the UK, helping people in the UK. I only ever give into this Charity.
Not because I don't feel remorse or sadness for those Africans, but because I don't want to waste my time and money mourning over people who aren't going to get anywhere even with help.
Recently what with the events in Haiti, I don't care for them either. They have allways been just as bad as this before the Earthquake. They've not worked to change themselves. With what they've got, they should atleast aim towards working for themselves. I can't mourn for a country that wont help itself. I will not give into charities for Haiti. They're living better than before with the stuff were sending in. They've been just as bad before and just as bad after.
Death in those two forms, in places where it is going to happen and where they aren't going to help themselves, I don't feel sad for. Partially because they don't affect me, partially because I don't know them. I just can't feel sad for the death of those who can't keep up. It no doubt sounds horrible and wrong in many peoples opinions, but that's the way I feel. Survival of the Fittest, as it's said. I can't hold back and help and feel for those who can't keep up in the first place.
I wrote a fair ammount there, and a lot of it is jumbled, but I hope you understand what I'm getting at. No doubt I'll probably have made a bit of an ass about myself and I'll probably forget to look back on this topic again, but if you have anything majorly against what I've said and wish to tell me it, just send me a PM about it.
