Does death make you cry?

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i would say this thread has blown out of the water the idea that aspies are cold hearted. we just bond to people/animals and even things in a way that seems strange to NTs. i don't know what it is, maybe NTs are more conventional?

does anyone else have any opinions?

I like death.

Death makes me feel alive

I'll be crying around a certain date, for a year, solid and than it will taper off. The same thing happened to me, when my Grandpa passed away, last year.

It depends who died and how.

ruveyn

I don't cry, but death makes me feel at peace.

Yes and no. I have cried when Simba's father died or when Jack dawson died or when Veta's friend Thomas James died. But in real life when people die in car crashes or when my grand dad died or my brother's friend, neah. Same as when my cat died, I was sad but I didn't cry. I was expecting it because I saw how weak she was and how faded the color of her fur looked and the sound of her meows and I figured she won't live much longer and she may die within a year. That summer, she died.

I cry everytime a pet dies, but my dog, I had him since the late 80s when I was a little boy and he was 17 in 2003 when he was put to sleep, he was ill and set to get worse. I felt terror when I was told that time was up, but I was told I had to look at it from his point of view - the old saying, "If you love someone, you'll set them free" really rang true for me in this case.

I cry when certain celebrities die, because I really like them and follow their work. Celebrities like Patrick Swayze and Natasha Richardson hit me, it was so cruel how they went, two nice people who never hurt anybody. They deserved better then what they got.

I cried for an extremely long time when my dog died. Looking back, I should've seen it coming, but I honestly believed she was going to get better. It was a shock.

I've shed tears for fictional characters on a few occasions, but only a few.

As for human death... well, my family is kind of small, so I haven't experienced it much. No one truly close to me has died. I feel kind of bad saying that, because both of my grandparents on my dad's side have passed on, but they lived so far away and I rarely saw them. We actually have very little contact with my dad's side of the family. I still consider my dog to be my greatest loss.

I remember in first grade when classmates mentioned people in their family dying I burst into tears over it even though I never knew those people.

I also cried over not getting "100%" on spelling tests in grade school because I was such a perfectionist. I've gotten over that.

I also tend to cry when I read about or reflect on subjects like child labor, sweatshops, wars, and any incidents of people being oppressed. Reflecting enough about anything that isn't fair in our society and that hurts people can bring me to tears, and I'm always reflecting on that because I'm always trying to figure out what we can do to try to fix the world and stop bad things like that from happening.

Thinking about ideas that are really beautiful can sometimes have me tearing up in public and I have to think to constrain myself. Movies can also do that to me if they are too sad or too happy, but usually my eyes will just tear up and I'm able to keep it light enough nobody notices.

No, for some reason it makes me laugh. A couple of years ago when I had to tell my little brother that our grandma died, I nearly pissed myself laughing. Hell, I'm grinning now just thinking about it. I don't know why I find death so amusing. Maybe it's because other people tend to take it so seriously.

What does upset me sometimes is unwarranted violence towards innocent people and animals.

I personally don't see death as anything to get upset over unless the death was of unnatural causes. Like someones life being stolen by another would cause me to be upset, but death by illness or age just seems natural. Also in a sense I don't even see death as an end... so I'm not quite sure what I'd supposed to be crying for honestly. My grandmother passed away from a terrible cancer when I was 12... how could I cry when she no longer had to feel her cancer crushing her lungs and brain? I could have cried had my parents let me see her living in agony though I guess in a way her death should have been celebrated as a release from her prison... I hope I don't sound cold or heartless, but during the funeral while everyone else was brought to tears, under my blank stare I felt a warm feeling of relief that she had passed. I loved her very much. Where I have no real emotions toward every relative of my blood... I've always felt confused knowing that I could since I loved her so much.

When I was in HS, one of my classmates died of leukemia. That made me feel very uncomfortable too, mostly because I knew I was supposed to be crying and sad but I wasn't. I finally did cry over her when my school did a slideshow tribute. I remember telling my friend "Oh, she was so beautiful." So really I was only sad because her beauty had to end so abruptly.

Anyone else cry because of beauty ending?