[discostu]

This is the part of American society that makes me sick. This compulsive mourning. 99% of these people never met this kid and never heard of her until she was kidnapped. It's sad but people need to get a grip. A couple hundred kids have been abducted since this one disappeared, where are all their rent-a-mourners?

If you wanna feel sad, cool. Pray for the kid, sure. Cry, yeah but keep it private where crying belongs. But when people come from all over the place to dump flowers on where the body was found, that's sick and the people that do it need help, very expensive psychological help. There's plenty of sad things in life without joining some TV tragedy. You wanna buy flowers and share someone's pain, go to your nearest cancer ward, you might actually be able to HELP them.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I agree. It's pretty sick for a bunch of strangers to go to a murder site with teddy bears and flowers.

Take your stuffed animals and flowers to the Children's Hospital. Hug a child, take them to the zoo, but don't hang out at a murder site. Sick, sick, sick.

[PresbyRev]

Amen!

[Ole Okie]

This is the part of American society that makes me sick. This compulsive mourning.

I completely agree with you. I was sickened by the excess of the saccharine Princess Di "mourning".

Mourning is best done privately. Personally, I find it difficult to "mourn" someone I don't know. I can feel sad at this little girl's death, but "mourn" (as one would for a loved one) is a misnomer.

[It's me]

If you wanna feel sad, cool. Pray for the kid, sure. Cry, yeah but keep it private where crying belongs. But when people come from all over the place to dump flowers on where the body was found, that's sick and the people that do it need help, very expensive psychological help. There's plenty of sad things in life without joining some TV tragedy. You wanna buy flowers and share someone's pain, go to your nearest cancer ward, you might actually be able to HELP them.

I could NOT have said it better myself. The only thing I could add is that I think it is gruesome to go where the body was found.

[capitan_refugio]

Perhaps this excerpt from John Donne's (1572-1631) "Meditation, Expostulation, Prayer, No. XVII" will help ...

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the maine; if a clode be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind, so therefore, send not to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

[Greg Weston]

Just don't talk to those people in the cancer ward about what they might do for a living Stu. If it's not up to your standards you could end up making them feel worse.