RE: Is it wrong?
January 11, 2016 at 1:56 pm
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2016 at 2:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 11, 2016 at 3:44 am)Kitan Wrote: Is it wrong that I am not moved by death?
I feel nothing when I learn about the death of another.
I'd hesitate to make that statement, as you don't know how binding it would be going forward. I've seen many people die, I've been the direct cause some of it. I felt no remorse, no pity, and I have no regrets -about my action specifically or their deaths-. So..if my entire experience of death were limited to my experience in that regard..I'd probably say the same thing. That it did not and does not move me.
However, I bawled like a baby when my step-father died....despite not having seen the man in 15 years, and having a mutually frigid relationship with him when we last spoke. I handled his end of life expenses and arrangements...as his family sneered at me. Perhaps, and obviously I hope to lay this in the kindest possible manner...the right people haven't died..in your life, yet. I wouldn't call you strange (or wrong) for failing to emotionally invest in the deaths of those to which you are not emotionally invested. Do you have a mother, brothers...sisters...a father? Consider those eventualities and decide whether or not your current statements would hold.
But maybe I'm talking out of my ass in your case, what do you think?
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