Author Topic: Why Does Death Make Us Sad? (Read 7384 times)

Niliscro · January 18, 2010, 05:21:55 PM

I think the only time I would feel bad about a person dying that I never met was if I was the one who killed them.

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Choneis · January 18, 2010, 05:22:57 PM

Quote from: Niliscro on January 18, 2010, 01:45:15 PM

This I cannot. Are you saying you would be sad that you can no longer enjoy the company of someone you have never met? Someone who hasn't even minutely affected you?

Not that I can no longer enjoy their company, its the fact I never will. Its not oversenseativity, it's a high respect for human life.

DrMobius · January 18, 2010, 05:44:20 PM

Touchy subject. The sadness part of it partially has to do with not knowing what you have until it's gone. That said, you can't really know what the death of someone close is like unless you've experienced it firsthand. Religious or not, you know that you will never see them again except in memories. Those memories bring back the old joy. but the pain returns as well. It hangs over you for, as far as I know, the rest of your life.

Niliscro · January 18, 2010, 05:46:06 PM

Quote from: DrMobius on January 18, 2010, 05:44:20 PM

Touchy subject. The sadness part of it partially has to do with not knowing what you have until it's gone.

So, according to this, only ungrateful people would feel sad?

IsaacKronenFaust · January 18, 2010, 06:02:45 PM

I thought the title said "Why does Darth Malak is sad?"

Nightmare-Duckie · January 18, 2010, 06:12:19 PM

To your second point, I kind of think that its a bandwaggon scheme. As in, one person that's really attached to someone that has died in say, the Haiti disaster, goes to a friend for sympathy, the friend will react in being equally sad to make the first person feel like she/he's not alone in the situation. Then friends of the friend will join in being equally, more, or less sad which will then spread on bringing other people to the conclusion of a nation under mourning. This could spread quickly with a situation like Haiti because many people are affected over a dead friend or relative and will go to others for comfort, many that are already on this bandwaggon. However this is only a theory and it would be great if you guys could add to it or share your opinions on it.

Also...

Quote from: Jellypuddle on January 18, 2010, 01:48:56 PM

@OP

This isn't 4chan... get out

DrMobius · January 18, 2010, 06:50:17 PM

Quote from: Niliscro on January 18, 2010, 05:46:06 PM

So, according to this, only ungrateful people would feel sad?

We all take for granted our loved ones. You don't ever really think that they will disappear and are probably not prepared for a world without them. As I also said, "partially." I know what I'm talking about so don't try to argue this with me.

Niliscro · January 18, 2010, 06:53:20 PM

Quote from: Nightmare-Duckie on January 18, 2010, 06:12:19 PM

To your second point, I kind of think that its a bandwaggon scheme. As in, one person that's really attached to someone that has died in say, the Haiti disaster, goes to a friend for sympathy, the friend will react in being equally sad to make the first person feel like she/he's not alone in the situation. Then friends of the friend will join in being equally, more, or less sad which will then spread on bringing other people to the conclusion of a nation under mourning. This could spread quickly with a situation like Haiti because many people are affected over a dead friend or relative and will go to others for comfort, many that are already on this bandwaggon. However this is only a theory and it would be great if you guys could add to it or share your opinions on it.

Also...This isn't 4chan... get out

1)
Yes, that is pretty much how it works for little kids. They're sad because they're "supposed" to be

and 2)
@OP isn't just 4chan. That's like saying "lol" is only AIM or MSN or wherever it originated.

kanew2000 · January 18, 2010, 10:05:06 PM

Quote from: Riot on January 18, 2010, 01:45:22 PM

Death isn't normal, we were not made to die. There is just no gene information that tells the body to get old and die, death is cellular decay. Basically death is a sickness everyone gets, in a way that we cant understand yet.

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I blame adam and eve.