Do you get upset when people die?

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Yes. Family, friends, strangers, animals, the felling of trees etc.

If someone died that I didn't like, like oh any member of the Liberal Party I wouldn't cry but if their family spoke on live TV about them I would probably feel a bit sad. I was kind of that way when Michael Jackson died.

Barely. Varies though. Note this applies to people I know IRL and characters in Anime I watch.

I'm still upset.

My son, Anton, died just over a year ago in a motorcycle accident. Here is part of what I wrote the next day: (I have emphasised a bit for this post).

Yes, if someone I care about dies I'm a blubbering mess, I have always been very sensitive in this way. Although I didn't cry at all when I learnt that my Nan and Grandad on my Fathers side had died but in all honesty I hardly knew them.

My Nan on my Mothers side died of a heart attack when I was only 7 and it was extremely devastating I thought she was the best and nicest person in the world.

Since then I have seen my father In-Law die of cancer and my Brother In-Law die in an accident. They were very sad times, i still get choked up about it now when I think of them. I know that dieing is a part of life but when people go long before there time I think it hurts you the most, just feels like such an injustice.

I do think I'm just very emotionally sensitive though, I cried my eyes out when a wild mouse died in my hands whilst I have seen other people just kill them. I used to try to save all animals that crossed my path.

Well, I do feel bad when someone dies. Like when Billy Mays died, it was unexpected and it did upset me. I don't have any long-lasting depression due to it, however. I've never had someone I see very often die, so I'm not really the most experienced.

I feel nothing regarding animal deaths unless it's something like trying to drive a species extinct. I just feel no attachment at all to them, and in fact despise domesticated pets.

Humans it is totally different. Death is too difficult for me to handle. You can imagine how great military life was... yeah, I'm stupid. But I have never gone to another funeral since the last one I was forced to when I was a teenager. Doesn't matter how close they are to me. It's just too much for me. And the death penalty horrifies me to extreme levels. I could write a whole book on just how horrifying I find the concept. But the worst for me is the death of women and children, I don't have to know them and it doesn't matter the cause (although some are worse than others for me to handle). It's just too much, like I will shut down and usually end up sleeping for long periods. I'm in my 30's and exposure to the horrors of life has not dulled me to it, so instead now I try to insulate myself from it as much as possible. I don't watch the news and I'm picky with my movie watching and am okay with hitting that fast forward button. And I'm not close to anyone, so I can't lose any more people than I already have.

That's how I deal with it

I never cry, including when those closest to me die. I do care about people and can be very upset if they suffer an injustice. When my parents died, I think I was in a sort of shock, but I didn't cry or really feel sad. And I particularly worshipped my dad, who was a saint to me.

I get upset when people die, sometimes even strangers, I get upset everytime I realise people die. Don't laugh at me, I have a serious thanatophobia... It is my worst fear...

I do not cry. Lost my father at 16, grandfather at 35 and uncles and great grandparents too. I feel a sadness deep inside but I'm pretty emotionless on the outside. Everyone mistakes me for the strong one.

Only if it's me.

i do not like people to die if they owe me money

not really, i'm kind of emotionless
i would cry if my husband died, but i think that's all.

Moreso for animals than people unless I am somehow close to them, and even then it is apparently different. But I can get emotional at the death or sacrifice of a character, even animated, strangely enough.


M.

I've never had someone close to me die, so I don't know how I would react. I think I would definitely be very sad, but again, only for someone close to me.

I don't care about the deaths of people I don't know, though I do recognize that if a friend's mother dies it will make them upset, and so then I'll be upset because my friend is acting upset.

When my dog died a couple years ago I wasn't sad because it wasn't a surprise. He was a very old dog who was slowly wasting away for quite a long time, and I was actually relieved when he died, because he wasn't in pain, and I didn't have to change his diaper anymore. It was his time to die.
I do remember that my mother came to wake me up when he died, and cried for a while. She was more attached to him than I was. Even though my mother doesn't think she's on the spectrum, I'm convinced she is, and I think it was very aspie of her to check the clock as the dog died and call out, "Time of death, 8:36 AM." (She's obsessed with medical TV shows hahaha.)

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