Why we cry when someone dies?

When we know him/her then we cry because we will no more see him or have him around us. But I wonder why do we cry on someone who we never know before? Even if you were passing by in a street and saw a man dead, even a normal death not in an accidents or sickness! There is a reason... Behind that affection we have?!

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We cry because of the tragedy that occured.

So you cry because your knowledge that it is a tragedy? I think this is not an answer, that is an extension of the question not an answer for it.

I never cried when people died, many people explain that I wasn't close to the person who died, or didn't care about them. Its funny how crying is taken as a scale of how much you care about the dead person.
Why do people cry when others die? Because they're not seeing them again, because they will miss them, and the sadness and sorrow resulted from that is released and expressed most of the time by crying.
Crying when people die is a normal thing in human beings, similar to when someone is leaving for good and u know u wont meet them again!

But not all people cry when a relative dies.

If it's a close family member or friend, I cry because I am going to miss them, I won't see them ever, and also because there's a big big big chance they are suffering in their graves!!

I never cry if it's someone I don't know, but I saw a dead person in front of me, killed or just sudden, my knees freeze and I think about it all day! He/She is forgotten the next day after a good night sleep!

Why we cry when someone dies?

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It is psychological spontaneous reaction of your subconscious mind.
a) You are never get back with whom you had lot of emotional attachment was there.
b) When you cry by seen others not related to you , may be in the case of dead, natural disaster, manmade disaster , means you have soft heart, beautiful kind heart , for sure you unconsciously love people.
c) Some time fear, that remained you, may be your turn is not far away. Many other reasons are there.

Because thats human nature.

Because thats human nature.

^Thats the answer.

Even elephants mourn..

But of course, I doubt the "question" in haroun's post is actually a question. It's more like a test. He has the answer already, and unless you write what he has in his mind, your answer is not quite sufficient.

Isn't that right haroun..? :)

Why not cut to the chase and just say what you're going to say anyways?

hah.. posted it 3 minutes too late. But goes to show I was right after all. :p

I see crying, screaming and laughter as defense mechanism...Against fear.
We cry when someone is deceased because we are scared inside of the fact that we're not seeing them again and we're scared of death itself and its seeming cruelty. It's a very stupid thing to consider crying the 'demonstration' of love for a deceased one...The heart mourns much more intensely than the eyes.
We scream in hopes that we will scare whatever scares us.
And we laugh to cover up our fear because we're scared of being thought weak or scared.

That is my simplistic view of course.

I haven't experienced mourning as such.. yet. Am sure I will in future.. but the only feeling I get is the realisation of how vulnerable life really is.

I can imagine the loss of someone dear to really hurt. There's only two people I can think of who would reduce me to a screaming mess... and that's because I expect them to bury ME and not vice versa.. and I would scream out of frustration at the situation.. because death, especially brought on my accident, is hardly something you have much control over.

And that scares me.

Amen. May God protect you from such a day...

I haven't ever been through the experience of someone close I know dying, but I frown upon crying.

maybe coz it hurts?

:bored:

"I" cry on someone I never know because it reminds me of my own tragedy of my father's loss. I also cry because I have this thought that most of people are not going to heaven, and they will experience torturing in the grave as soon as they get buried.

I knowI have Pessimistic thought.

Cause it reminds us that one day we will end up just like him/her and he didnt know that he will pass away . We cry anf pray for mercy .. hey some cry when they run over a stray cat . I know a lady who cried over a goldfish !!!!!

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Maybe because that human is no longer around for his/her family, relatives, friends, and they will gona miss it ! and maybe also we think what if this happened to ourselves !

V. intersting Topic/question!
Not all ppl cry when they r in funeral or when they see some1 dead. Some do that.
and I am nt one of them,I alwayz was wondering y I dnt cry in such situation.Is it bcoz
I have heart of stone!!
However,I easily get touched when I see some1 crying in T.V. I wud feel like tears want
to roll dwn n I will hold so none will laugh at me! so lame I no.
So y realy we cry I think bcoz we have feelings,n we r emotional. does this answer the Q?!

To me, I cry because when I see someone dying or dies I feel afraid and know that life is short and have the fear of someone close to me dying...
So at times I cry when I get that in my head when I see or hear someone died...

Everyone has different reasons...

human nature...

and maybe becaue u see urself in thier place ...

Nice thread Haroundb. I really like some of the replies in this thread, and I guess anything that could be said about the reasons behind one's mourning or crying after a persons death has already been mentioned. So I'll save myself the effort of typing another couple of lines and quote the following:

It is psychological spontaneous reaction of your subconscious mind.

We cry when someone is deceased because we are scared inside of the fact that we're not seeing them again and we're scared of death itself and its seeming cruelty. It's a very stupid thing to consider crying the 'demonstration' of love for a deceased one...The heart mourns much more intensely than the eyes.

I also reckon crying over someones death (a close person), is nothing but a normal everyday emotion that we probably experience in our everyday lives except in this situation it's a heightened and amplified feeling of sadness and sorrow.

It could obviously be considered as a tragic loss. A person would sense a feeling of sadness and/or be disturbed at the event of losing anything materialistic, so I find it very natural for that same feeling to be heightened and amplified when one finds that they have lost a person whom they have shared immense feelings and a bunch of unforgettable memories with.

Screaming and beating yourself isn't a normal reaction.

passion, feelings, rage, anger, love, affection, ALL
can be summarized into the word...Human!

Screaming and beating yourself isn't a normal reaction.
Are you adding that to the topic? Because I don't think that's what Haroundb had discussed? :rolleyes:

We cry because we miss that person a lot, espicilly if was special.

I don't think men should cry, maybe tearing only?

^^
Men can cry! :bored:
They are no different....