[3117] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: Walden from hell
amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jun 15 01:23:04 1992
When my first `best friend' dies at age 17, I was depressed for a long
while because I never grieved for him. I felt -- well, uneasy, I guess,
realizing that it was a turn of fate that made Ronald ill and all that,
but I never felt *sad* that he died so young.
I think one witnessing a stranger die -- and I pray I never do -- would
be an unusually sensitiv person to be able to grieve. To feel horror,
fear, and even sorrow, perhaps, but I don't think death itself touches
us as much as the resultant loss of a loved one does.
I'm sorry that your sendoff for Libby was so scrod. :-(
