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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I disagree that this isn't a traumatizing story. Obviously levels of trauma vary significantly and many many people are able to read (and even laugh :( ) about it without feeling any personal impact. But this is really tough to know about for "deep feeling" people, and it absolutely has a negative collective impact on mental health.

I hope these people are found and rescued, and that with their billions they will pay back the costs of being rescued from what I agree was entirely a vanity project at now great financial and emotional cost to the public. It's horrifying and I hope they are able to be saved. I can't imagine what their families are going through.[/quote]

This is the best post and I agree 100%

Some people here should be ashamed of themselves.

The teen on board is especially upsetting.[/quote]

Ok, but question for you two - how do you manage to get out of bed much less function on a daily basis with the amount of suffering and death that occurs every second around the world? I can think of many, many situations that are far worse for people (especially because they didn't put themselves in those situations!), that break my heart more than this. Yes, this is sad, it's sad when (almost anyone) dies, especially in a manner like this. But it's not remotely as sad as children dying of starvation, children being sold off into sex slavery, migrants dying trying to cross a body of water. I could go on and on. So if THIS is what you want to categorize as traumatizing, how do you handle everything else that's going on?[/quote]

I’m the poster who originally posited that this is a potentially traumatic incident for many millions of people. Recent decades of research in psychology and neuroscience has clearly established that our brains are impacted by vicarious trauma, folks who work in fields where they are witness to traumatic experiences are clearly affected. Some people are affected more than others - there is now growing consensus that some people, perhaps ~30%, are highly sensitive people upon whom trauma had greater impact than others.

I actually *do* struggle every day with how to cope with psychological anguish I feel considering the suffering of others I have never met - victims of the war in Ukraine, starving children in the Sudan, girls and women raped and murdered all over the world as a weapon of war and/or misogyny.

In this case I am not traumatized so much by the loss of these five people but rather by the manner of the deaths - as the whole world contemplates whether they were blown to bits in a sudden depressurization or whether they are experiencing the hellish agony of a long slow descent into madness and suffocation.[/quote]

They didn’t do this TO you. If only there was a way for you to not click on a website or watch this on the tv. I believe HGTV has no coverage of this at all. [/quote]

PP, what an inveterate a$$hole you are. There are those among us who are unable or unwilling to ignore the suffering of others. Your lack of empathy is disgusting.[/quote]

Ok, so you don't ignore ANY of the suffering that goes on around the world? You must then give all your money to charities to fight world hunger, you must spend all your time researching ways to make the world a better place. You don't? Why not?

Also, these people CHOSE to do this. Sure it's sad that they died (I'm going to go ahead and assume that has happened by this point), but it pales in comparison to so many other things going on. What do you do when a friend has a late-term miscarriage? When someone's spouse or child dies young? How on earth do you handle real tragedy that's in your face?[/quote]

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