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by buginprod 611 days ago
We cant stop! Modern civilization isnt designed that way. The griever stops but the whole team doesn't. The flipside is we have less death than the middle ages because of the technology we have created. Nonetheless no one is immortal. Death is part of the game, without it life would not be possible. (A universe where life is immortal would not have sufficient antifragility to have the evolutionary pressures to make human experience)
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On the other hand, what is the reasonable way of action here? A whole set of acquaintances grieving for days about a person only one of them knew? Next to this being quite detrimental to productivity (and you can argue all day about how bad we have it in this society), it would just lead to us being in a mostly permanent state of grieve, as there will always be someone that had some shocking event in recent times, for any reasonably large set of people.