When young people die other young people view that death as a window into their own mortality which is something that unless they are in war or have been sick they usually are blissfully lacking self awareness of....as they should be...there is time to be self aware of time running out when you are old like most of us here.
Young people should enjoy life and all that energy
When a peer dies young folks kind of glom it as a life changing event....which frankly it is if you’re close to the deceased. Two of my four best high school pals were dead by 30 and I saw several others die needlessly and to this day it’s something I always view as pivotal.
As well as huge funeral processions when young people die....a well known high school kid and you’ve got a big almost parade of cars to the graveyard
We had a couple of 16 year olds die in separate car wrecks in HS, back in early 70’s. And then I had a friend and his wife die in a wreck when I was 19. It does change your outlook on life as a teenager.............
“young people view that death as a window into their own mortality which is something that unless they are in war or have been sick they usually are blissfully lacking self awareness of”
At age 10 I developed a rare kidney disease. By the time the docs realized what it was they told my family that I would most likely die within a day or two. They obviously missed that bet and I’m written up in a medical journal somewhere. I still have a vivid memory of an hallucinatory dream that I experienced the first days in the hospital, that otherwise I don’t remember at all. It’s pretty much one of those dreams where you are kicked out of the afterlife because you’re told it’s not your time to go. Anyway maybe that’s a reason for my curious indifference. Suffering and sorrow moves me, but death not so much.