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Hate people being so casual about death
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Ok I love games and movies that include mass murder and loads of violence and sh*t but when someone in real life dies everyone seems to be so casual about it and not even care but it effects me deeply, I don't show that it affects me so much. Do people just hide it or do they really not care when someone who they don't know dies?

I'm a guy btw
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Comments (22)
@: HomerS
how true.
@: P00LTOY
true, except about niggers. no. i think the real problem here is bankers running loose like filthy animals.
seems like im arguing with myself here, doesnt it? well, im not going to worry about it. going to bed. later all you wacky IINers.
to the poster. i think a few million people die every day, so if the death of strangers bothers you truly you will never be able to enjoy your life.

at any moment, there are a ton of people dying in agony. and at the moment that YOU die, one day, other people are going to be playing ball or clipping their toe nails. that's the nature of human existence.
Anonymous (Story Author)
@: P00LTOY
"At any moment,there are a ton of people dying in agony" I know that and that does hurt me a lot, I want to do something to help but I also know that there is nothing I can do to help.

I know that people will be doing something trivial when I die and I don't care about that, i don't hold the value of my life above anyone else's in this world so I know there is going to be no big ceremony for my death. I have accepted my death and I don't feel anything for it but the masses of other people that die everyday, thats what affects me the most, especially the ones that died for no reason, like some douche was drinking and driving and drove into someone and they died, that's what affects me the most.
i'm not causal about people dying, if it's someone i dont like i usually throw a party
Poster, you should be named Hamlet!

People are desensitized nowadays. You have to have someone close to you die in order to feel anything over it.
Anonymous (Story Author)
Why hamlet?

I care that people die, like all the time i feel sad because of all the deaths in the world, moreso when its someone i know but i always feel bad because of the ppl that i dont know that die.
people die all the time every second probably i feel unless i knew the person or was connected in some way i have the right not to care because i dont know them and i never will i do however get upset when people die under messed up circumstances such as civillians in war or the holocaust or negligence of a company but i will not grieve for any person i do not know. i dont owe it to them and everyone has to go sometime right.
everybody cares when someone dies it's just human to keep it inside (though it might not be good or healthy) still that's how humans are, you shouldnt think that no one cares because in truth everyone does just before them and help them let it out
its just media's effect on everyone. people SHOULD, NORMALLY care about things like that. but a lot of people are affected by the violence they see so casually on TV. you understand the difference, youre grasping the real effect. since media is RELATIVELY new, its kind of half of society is where you are; the other half feel its the same as on TV. just be proud you still have that bit of morals left (:
People dying is nothing, if you knew them it would feel empty without them.

Some people like me honestly don't give a flying fuck. But I'll still console people like you, I'm a nice guy at heart :-)

But death's nothing, unless they were close.. Even then if you didn't like them or were indifferent about them same thing, nothing.
death is a naturual part of the cycle if your religious then your going to a better place or an aethist like myself, you won't feel anything so it really is no big deal.
Anonymous (Story Author)
I know death is natural that doesn't really make me feel a lot better though.

I am atheist and I think that religion makes death seem way to....good. I think religion makes death seem good and murder justifiable through religion. Think about it, if you murder someone and believe they will go to heaven all you do is give them a better life and make them happier, and if you think they go to hell then they obviously deserved death and then you can justify killing them by saying they deserved it, won't work on the law I know but its a way to justify it to yourself.

As an atheist I am scared shitless of death because of the fact that well theres nothing after it. The whole life is gone and will never come back again, it just scares the shit out of me.
Wow, I have almost the same feelings. I hate it when people talk about death as if they understand it, and have experienced it. Such as when people say things like "I'm gonna kill his ass!" or other stuff like that. [I also don't like it when people (as you said) act causal about it.]
Even though it is sad when people die for some reason I really don't show no emotion waht so ever but I still think it's sad
when someone you dont know dies if the person doesnt show emotion theres a simple reason for this in our world we see so many strangers get killed every day that the efects of it have worn off of us. now if itd a family member thats another story if they dont show emotion they are most likly holding it back.
Join the Army, become a Infantry or any combat arms MOS and then we'll see if death is so casual to you.
Im saying that death is not casual and i could never join the army, no way am I going to risk my life to kill other people.
You simply value life so much, all those efforts to make you life good and then boom death out of nothing and that's sad. I feel the same.
honestly you are too sensitive. death is inevitable, so why should it bother me? death is population control, if we all lived forever the world would be over populated and miserable and would just generally suck. death is necessary, its natural, and should not affect you so much. you may call me insensitive, heartless, a robot or w/e, but im just realistic, and find that whatever happens, happens, my remorse wont change owt.
No offence but people who act casual are the ones who are hurt the most. If somone dies that i know then i feel happy for them. You shouldnt regret ones passing but embrace it. Just think, they dont have to worry about pain, suffering, etc. Thats how i look at it.