Measuring death

This is an old post I wrote on facebook back on the 13th of August, 2014.

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Always trying to understand why people try and measure death, as if in some cases it could be better or worse.

I'm Palestinian, and what's going on in Gaza is heart-breaking, it really is. But, what's happening in Gaza doesn't erase the fact that in Syria, people are dying too. In Egypt, Libya, even Poland and America. What I mean to say is that death is everywhere, and the fact that a mass murder is happening in Gaza won't change that others are grieving for their loved ones too; Loved ones that were not killed in Gaza, but were maybe killed in a fight with cancer, or an unexpected car crash.

We should acknowledge, support, and cry for our brothers and sisters in Gaza, without forgetting our brothers and sisters in the rest of the world.

And if an actor whom many people loved and laughed because of dies, who's to say people can't grieve for him too? Is his death any less than a death in Gaza, Syria, Egypt? I'm not in the business of naming who should grieve for Gaza and who should grieve for Syria and who should grieve for Robbin Williams, but at the end of the day, I'm also not in the business of pointing fingers and telling people that they should not grieve for a favoured actor solely because people are dying in the arab world.

People are dying everywhere - Never forget that.