When bad people die?

Is it wrong to feel happy about it?

 

no, that happy feeling is the feeling of the world coming back into balance.

 

Schadenfreude isn't a particularly pleasant emotion.

 

Not if it makes you feel happy.

 

I dunno, I feel pretty good about it.

Suck on death Ted Stevens.

 

Though with that reasoning when someone good dies it would seem that they also face the same proverbial punishment as "suck on death." When we die we all experience the same thing, regardless of what our human experience was like. So for him to "suck on death," would mean that those you love and care for will also, "suck on death," when their time comes.

 

I throw parties.

 

Yes. When the people I love die they too will suck on death.

My solution is trying not to form close bonds.

 

Is it weird to show up dressed like the dead?

 

lol. I don't think death is anything to suck on. I think whoever Ted Stevens is, he is a luckier man than you. Death is absolution from all that is human; pain, suffering, longing, hatred, sorrow, saddness. Death is freedom.

 

Pft, says the living.

Life isn't so bad.

 

"When somebody dies one needs grounds of consolation most of all not so much to assuage one's grief as to provide an excuse for the fact that one is so easily consoled."

 

I can understand people feeling relief when some miserable person who has inflicted harm on them dies. Relief in that it can not happen again or there is closure. I think though that is a very short lived emotion.

I can understand even when someone we feel is a good person dies the feeling of relief in many circumstances. In this case it is usually an emotion that is a comfort.

I am not sure happy is a word I would use.

There are people that I would feel relieved to have no longer on the earth because of the harm they have done to others but I am also realistic enough to know it will not undue or mitigate the harm that was done. Things or issues that are unresolved tend to stay that way and have a ripple in peoples lives.

Some people have no remorse about what they have done nor do they feel any twinge of guilt about the damage they do. I am sure they will not be missed by the majority of those they hurt but I am also certain they will be missed by someone. Oddly enough they are often missed by those they also hurt.

 

Yes, human emotion regarding death is very complicated regardless of who has died. When my dad died I mourned and was terribly sad, but at the same time about 20 minutes after he passed away I felt great warmth and comfort in the fact that he wasn't going to experience human suffering anymore. He was in a lot of pain and a great state of distress. So althought I lost my father, I was glad to see him go and happy for that fact after it happened. Happy that neither one of us would any longer have to experience pain and suffering on his behalf.

 

God i love crankirish sig..

 

I have a friend who I grew up with and her father had to be the meanest, nastiest person to ever breathe. She was abused for decades by this man and when he passed she said "finally the bastard is dead".

He was not dead to her and still is not as what happened still very much influences her and her life. He still holds power, sadly. No amount of time or professional help will erase that. Makes it bearable at best.

Life and death are so entwined in all of us. We take patterns from the grave as well as from the living.

 

Yes. And unfortunately your friend will probably never have closure because she never made any with her father.

My father wasn't mean or anything, he was a great person. I was just sharing that experience to show the varying, seemingly odd, emotions that can come with death.

 

Great answer- but I differ with the premise that the world was in balance prior to their incarnation.

Since death is an inevitable end to life I prefer to see it as the successful graduation from this stage in a greater spiritual journey so happiness tempered with a little sadness isn't entirely inappropriate in any case. Associating negative feelings with something we all are going to face just deepens the fear of it.

 

You should be happy that they had lived

not sad that they have died

 

If it feels good, do it.

I've never felt bad about the emotions I have. If i did, it would cancel them out, and I am certainly not sad that a certain child molester died.

Of course not, zombies are a totally awesome party addition.