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Does the UK suffer from mourning sickness?
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Maybe we're too soft, or maybe it's good that we can express emotion so freely.
some people indulge in it ...others are obsessed with it.
it's the thing to aspire to! why ...?
i pressume it demeans the worshipper at the foot of their gods and godesses. the worshipper feels that good is going to come from their act. no good comes from it whatsoever yet ...the worshipper goes away feeling fulfilled ...yet some how cheated?
'it's a mad world ...'
It's like when a girl committed suicide because Take That split up, it's pathetic. And anyone obsessed by any celebrity is pathetic.
Ditto Queen Mother...
Very briefly.
If it takes something like that, then society has huge problems...
It also caused divisions. I was castigated at the time for not wanting to watch the funeral, for wanting to carry on that day as normal...
Only if you are pathetic enough to mourn someone who you don't know and have never even met.
I was sad she died, but no sadder that I was for the umpteen other mothers of teenage children killed in car crashes.
And did ALLLL those flowers that were layed by people when Diana died actually do any good?
People in society do things to feed their egos and make themselves feel good.......... without ACTUALLY doing any good!
All of this "recreational grief" seems to be taking over from things like giving to charity.
Maybe it's that they feel genuinly sad, when someone in the public eye that they have come to feel like they know and respect, dies.
Maybe it's that people are genuinly shocked and distraught by tragedies like the soham murders.
Maybe society doesnt perform helpful actions, but they maybe are feeling ones.
Maybe.
Just a thought.