Georgian Silver, how on earth do you cope with life? I could have been close to everyone who died in road accidents (have lost people I knew that way), people who have lost thier lives to natural causes (I can even claim a former classmate who died from an anurism at 18 or maybe the chap who in his final month of life I managed to get Internet access for), I could indirectly claim to know murder - a girl who until last week was working in a pub near to me was recently going through a court case involving the murder of her 19yr old brother and so the list carries on...

To suggest being uncaring is pathetic. All these things have touched me. I want to know:

1. How you might manage to put yourself in every situation that you could relate to anywhere in the world and grieve for every individual involved.

2. Why it seems to me that when a an event gets media attention there is great mourning but lets say if someone just got stabbed to death in Liverpool (or elsewhere) rather than attracting the same obvious emotion countrywide, it would be "one of things" - horrible but such is life...

My own theory is that with many people, life is so shallow that they mourn when told to mourn and the mass hysteria caused by media attention is the real reason. I'd love to be convinced otherwise.