on death

i seem to be facing a lot of deaths recently.. in the news at least..

everyday there will bound to be some deaths in road accidents and what not.. latest being that fallen trees killed people.

well i guess we can still sometimes joke about it, like no deaths means not serious, means we don't need to do follow-up and dun need to report.

but when death occurs, means we have a story. it's really saddening but that's what news is about. and so far i have not been given the task to speak to the relatives/friends of the deceased but i do believe it's hard. more than hard, it's probably excruciating. knowing the kind of grief they are going through and yet we need to get them to talk, to tell us the story, to provide us with the sound bite. i don't know if it has anything to do with being unethical but at least it's not really compassionate. or rather i won't say we are not compassionate but we just need to get the job done. so the hope is that there will be less of such cases.

back to the fallen tree. all i can say is life is unpredictable. imagine you are trying to keep a healthy lifestyle so you can live longer, hence you go out and have morning jog everyday BUT you get hit by a fallen tree and just lose your life. how ironic.

i guess this is life.