"...every man's death diminishes me..."

That includes the poor homeless guy who froze to death, Saddam Hussein, John Lennon, the most recent casualty in Afghanistan, my friend Jack's mother (who died quietly, surrounded by her family, on December 28), and everyone else.

The bell does NOT toll only for the executed, or the victims of AIDS, or those killed in war.

"Every" means "Every."

I need not mourn his passing, but "every man's death diminishes me."