[color=cc9900]My thoughts on this are that society has never really cared for the death of others, because it can't. Nothing else would ever happen, you'd always be at some poor sod's funeral weeping and saying "I never knew him" in the more literal sense.
Take most instances in history. Death counts these days are relatively low compared to historically recent times. If you lived in a middle-ages village people would practically die on your doorstep and you wouldn't notice. If anything, we're beginning to care more now that it's more infrequent (not to say it isn't frequent, just a lot less so). I do agree however that media is doing its part in edging us away from caring, in the same way it usually edges us away from most things 'good'. It can't be helped even if you watch a 24-hour news channel, too much stuff happens in the world to show it all on equal terms.[/color]
