WHY ARE CERTAIN DEATHS PUBLICLY MOURNED AND NOT OTHERS?

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WHY ARE CERTAIN DEATHS PUBLICLY MOURNED AND NOT OTHERS?

[+] serious ballot by nuckinfutz
ACTIVE Mon Apr 16, 07 - Sat Jan 09, 10
I'm not trying to downplay the tragedy at Virginia Tech. Every one of the 33 deaths there was a tragedy. But so are the deaths of thousands and thousands of people who die every day. Yes, it's a tragedy that their lives ended at such a young age, but it's also a tragedy that nearly 15,000 people in the US under age 25 die every day on average.

We arbitrarily pick the deaths that are most visible.
Depends on what else is in the news that day
Tragedy sells Commercial Airtime which pays for your 'Free' television Broadcasts

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Voted : We arbitrarily pick the deaths that are most visible.
I was wondering this today too, and this choice seems about right.

by himself809 on Mon Apr 16, 07 7:11pm [+]

Voted : We arbitrarily pick the deaths that are most visible.
I had no idea the number was that high. But if the 33 deaths figure for Virginia Tech includes the gunman, I don't think that one was a tragedy. News is always about the unusual, as opposed to the deaths that people are used to.

by skylab on Mon Apr 16, 07 8:24pm [+]

Yeah, I shouldn't have counted the gunman

by nuckinfutz on Mon Apr 16, 07 8:35pm [+]

Voted : We arbitrarily pick the deaths that are most visible.
Number of deaths, celebrity factors, social importance plays a very big role also...

by thesoothsayer on Mon Apr 16, 07 9:24pm [+]

Voted : We arbitrarily pick the deaths that are most visible.
13000 people are killed yearly in crashes involving drunk drivers
Their deaths don’t’ make the news either, when my mother and brother were killed by a drunk driver, it made head lines of local part of our newspaper, briefly mentioned on local news stations.

I suppose because there are so many people killed by drunks and by guns, would never be enough space to cover each story.

My heart goes out to anyone who lost a loved one, those at Virginia Tech and all others killed needlessly.

by larrynelmira on Tue Apr 17, 07 2:56am [+]

Also, as much media attention this is getting, next week it will be forgotton, where as an x playboy bunny who died probably because of her weckless lifestyle, continues receiving news coverage months after her her death.

What does that say about our society?

by larrynelmira on Tue Apr 17, 07 3:16am [+]

^RECKLESS

by larrynelmira on Tue Apr 17, 07 4:10am [+]

This was the nation's worst shooting rampage. School shootings are different, they're unusual. It was a rampage, it wasn't a car accident or a specific kinf of murder.

by Dani_dysfunk on Tue Apr 17, 07 4:32am [+]

Voted : We arbitrarily pick the deaths that are most visible.
The ones that seem more out of the usual will get inevitably get more attention. The event in Virginia Tech was incredibly cruel.

But overall, other things such as car accidents, work place accidents, teen suicide, drug abuse, cancer, and such are widely discussed in the US frequently as well.

by xxxxxxxx on Tue Apr 17, 07 6:27am [+]

I agree with Dani_dysfunk. There is something more chilling and disturbing about the cruelty behind a massacre.

by xxxxxxxx on Tue Apr 17, 07 6:28am [+]

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