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Are you intentionally being obtuse? The difference is not the value of their life, but the cause and manner of their death. I said that already.

Grandma didn’t die doing something reckless that could’ve killed other people as well as herself.

You’re the only one who has suggested that society assigns less value to this person’s life. No one else has said anything of the sort.

This person died doing something reckless and, naturally, that causes other people to feel less sympathy. Some deaths are viewed as being more tragic than others, but that doesn’t mean their life was any less valuable. You don’t feel as bad when someone says their 95 year old grandma died peacefully in her sleep as when someone says their 5 year old accidentally drowned in a pool. That has nothing to do with how much their lives were valued, but rather the cause and manner of their deaths.

It’s not that their lives are any less valuable. It’s that they make decisions that not only endanger themselves, but everyone else within their vicinity.

This person’s death is tragic, but it was also entirely avoidable. Death is a difficult topic, so some people make callous jokes in order to process nuanced tragedies that didn’t need to happen. Some people cry. Some get angry. Some shut down. There’s no right or wrong way to grapple with needless deaths.