Why should death be sad?

[ciaran]

I've come to think this is a natural reaction from people due to social convention. Whenever someone isn't sad after a death, they're usually looked down upon as inferior and are verbally assaulted. I remember when Steve Jobs died and Michael Jackson, if anyone said it was anything other than sad, they were slandered and I never understood why. Most people who were "sad" didn't even know these people, nor those they were being sad about, all they knew was that one was good at making money, and the other at making music, so why was the media flooded with tears?

I look at it in quite a morbid way, I find that the universe is so large and human's are so small in comparison, that the mark we leave behind is insignificant, at most people will only remember you if you were a war criminal, or the person who stopped that war criminal, or in many cases, you had a lot of money, otherwise, your life will have been forgotten in about 5-10 years max. That's what I find sad, not the death or the loss of the person, but that they will be forgotten soon, and all that crying would have been of no use. The only form of transcendence human's will ever have is in another's memory, so why waste time focusing on the negative and more on the positive, so that person who just died will be remembered, instead of forgotten as a repressed emotion.

My opinion does seem very depressing, but for me it's an unavoidable fact that people should consider. Or maybe I'm just thinking too much...
Going from your responses, it seems to me that it's the actual loss that people find sad, not the death. It's like I said, why are people sad about death, because those who cry about famous people dying, most don't know them, so what exactly are they losing, why are they being sad? It's different on a personal level, but when people hear someone died, they say, "oh that's sad" But why, what makes you think that? It's like a natural response, but also isn't because you aren't born with this.