snood wrote:I am loathe to admit it, but I felt a twinge of sorrow for her, too - not sure why, exactly. Mebbe her relative young age, and the faux-familiarity that was a result of the heavy media coverage she got when she did anything at all...
I still found myself having the passing thought that every soldier that dies in Iraq had peroxide blonde hair and big boobs though, so that maybe their passing from this life could all get this much attention.
I do see what you mean snood, however, just because more attention is given doesn't mean people mourn losing a soldier any less.
Sorrow/sadness for another, like love an happiness, are not finite things.
Because you love or are happy for one person, doesn't mean you have run out of that emotion for another person, animal, etc.
Same as you can feel badly and sad for each soldier dying in a war, but still feel just as badly if you hear of someone elses misfortune, sickness, death.
True, we (I) don't know the name of every soldier, but that doesn't diminish the awareness they had people who loved them, and can empathize with these unknown peoples lose. Same for a bleach blonde celeb.
Me, I don't feel there's any right or wrong way to approach loss, whether you personally knew that person or not. We all feel what we feel, and those emotions are just as valid as someone elses.
