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The Illusion of Scarcity
When someone dies, their presence becomes finite — a limited edition that can never be reproduced. Human nature is wired to value scarcity. We suddenly see what we had taken for granted because loss magnifies appreciation. In death, a person becomes a story, and stories feel safer to love than complicated, living humans. That’s why the living are ignored, but the dead are romanticized.
Guilt and Collective Redemption
Much of what people give after someone’s death — donations, tributes, tears — isn’t pure generosity; it’s guilt management. Death reminds everyone of their silence when the person needed them most. The contribution becomes a way to balance emotional debt. It’s easier to write a check to a memorial fund than to pick up the phone when someone’s struggling in real time.
Social Performance and Public Mourning
Death is also a stage. People want to be seen caring. The funeral becomes a public theater where empathy is performed. Tributes trend, hashtags rise, and people compete in grief — not out of malice, but because collective mourning feels righteous. It’s social validation dressed as compassion.
Fear of Facing the Living
Supporting someone alive requires engagement — their flaws, moods, and messiness. The dead are simpler; they can’t disappoint you. They can’t reject your help or expose your hypocrisy. So it’s safer to honor their memory than to wrestle with their reality.
Emotional Convenience
When people are alive, helping them often feels inconvenient — time, money, energy. But when they’re gone, it’s symbolic, easy, clean. No expectations, no follow-ups. Mourning demands less than sustaining. Death gives closure; life demands continuity.
Turning Point: Valuing the Living
If grief teaches anything, it’s that love must be loud before it’s too late. People should be given flowers while they can still smell them, support while they can still feel it, and attention while they can still respond. Gratitude loses its power when it becomes a eulogy.
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