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There is something wrong with the world when you have nine homicide victims, seven of whom are children, in Fresno, California, just a day after a 23-pound teenager with cerebral palsy is found dead in Crystal Lake and more than 200 are killed in a Madrid train bombing. I can be crass and rude at times, but these and other recent news stories are just disturbing. From the CNN.com post:

Several of the police officers who discovered the bodies were so distraught they were placed on paid administrative leave, Dyer said. “Anytime you have multiple victims of a homicide it’s a horrific scene,” Dyer said. “The fact that you have children involved and they’re helpless is something that none of us could predict. “It is horrific,” he said, “something that you hope you would never see in your career, something that you face here, and we’re trying to do the best we can with a horrible situation.”

And this from the Daily Herald post at Yahoo!:

The body of Seamus M. Leonard was found lying on a floor amid feces, cat litter and debris so thick rescuers had trouble moving through the home, authorities said. “The condition of this victim was like a body out of the Holocaust,” McHenry County State’s Attorney Gary Pack said. “This was worse than a bludgeoned body, a mutilated body,” Pack said. “The condition of the body would bring anyone to tears.”

I am finding death and morbid issues affecting me more and more as the years pass. Ten years ago, I would have thought it disturbing that all these people were dying, but it never touched me. I could always separate myself from the horrific events in the news. Now, it seems almost impossible to separate myself from the fact that so many people in the world are dying, and so many of them for no reason. Since the passing of my dad, death has become very much a reality to me. I wish it didn’t have to be that way for just one day.