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Originally Posted by Flabbibulin
I also think it has to do with the fear people have with their own mortality- being able to place blame brings people comfort, as it suggests that the person brought the death on themselves and therefore eliminates the randomness of it all... ie. "that could never happen to me"
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I'd fully agree with that.
I've done it before, you read about a 26 or 32 year old dying and you think "oh my, how horrible" but then rationalize a bit once you found out how it happened and measure against your own mortality risk. I find the occurrences of dropping dead of a heart failure that sometimes inexplicably kills young people scares the crap out of me. Then when you find out later it was because they were a junkie and injected steroids/booze/cocaine directly into their heart I feel a little better about my own mortality.