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A Frustrated Rant

Most people have been hurt by the death of a loved one. However, observing death from the stability of your own home or behind a screen is a different experience. Especially, if it is a person you did not know in your day-to-day life.        Empathy is huge when hearing about the experiences of others. To be able to hear their story and understand their emotions and reactions. As well as this, the ability to not downplay or undermine their feelings toward an event is important.        Re-examining the concept of death: many understand that, after someone passes away, grief affects people differently because death isn’t just “they’re dead” and moving on. It is realizing that you will be continuing your life without this person. Whatever role they played in your life is now empty and unfilled. And, if they were important to you, you will want to make sure their memory is preserved in a way that lines up with who they were as a human being.        Now, I’m sure you have someone in mind. Let’s take that person and imagine that they were taken away from you by someone who shouldn’t have even been interacting with them. Now, you are faced with the challenge of getting their killer held accountable. After months and months of trying- and even gaining media attention in the process- their killer is not charged.        What would you do? Would you be satisfied with the lack of justice? Or would you keep fighting, so people know that what happened to your loved one is unacceptable? You would pick the second one because you know that no one should have to experience the same feeling of loss and frustration as you.        If you think that the scenario above is about a single circumstance, this has happened to so many people. And that is horrible. It is devastating to see people siding with killers over and over again. Understand that the things you see on social media are things that are affecting real people.        Stop undermining the pain of others. Quit turning other people’s pain into the butt of a joke. Be kind. Be empathetic. And get people the justice they deserve.