Min isuqha? Il-mejjet?

Bil crane

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People die every day, so why not attend all the funerals? Why should they differentiate between a person who dies blown up in a fireworks factory explosion or in a car accident, or the workplace or of heart failure, or of cancer?

The president’s and other VIPs’ presence at these two funerals has diminished the value of their attendance at any other funeral. Their presence at funerals should be exclusive to people of a certain degree of importance to the country.

@HP
“This gene pool must be terminated.”
Norman Lowell can deal with that.

No. I refuse to give my sympathy and solidarity, and I’ll tell you why.

Sympathy means understanding someone’s feelings. I can never understand someone who, completely ignorant of the processes involved, dabbles in dangerous stuff and shrugs off accidents as the will of god.

As for solidarity, I have nothing in common with the fireworks groupies, except my Maltese passport. And it’s not that I’m being a snob. They’re the snobs. If I were to approach them with my warning about studying chemistry and my blunt declaration about them not being professionals, I’d be chased out of the village with shotguns.

The good book is stupid if it identifies only two states: laughing and crying (and how very conveniently Maltese). I have a heart, and my heart bleeds for the good sense and rationality that is all but extinct in this nation of ours.

What scandalises me is the sheer backwardness of it all: from the firework enthusiasts, to their families, to the chemical importers, to the priests with their inanities about how life is precious (is it? then grow some balls and tell them to give up fireworks), to the prime minister who attended the funeral, to The Times who goes along with the charade, placing adverts for slick, modern and thoroughly European business, finance and insurance whatnot right next to the most platitudinous provincial nonsense you can imagine.

Therefore, in a nutshell, I am no more sorry for the victims than I am for the characters in “Jackass” when they injure themselves.

For the TV stations to film the proceedings they have to get the permission of (A) the family (B) the parish priest and (C) the funeral director.

Having got all these permissions, there was nothing to stop the media stations to broadcast the funeral of a tragic happening which occurred on the quiet island of Gozo.

Why should it not be so? All people of goodwill grieved for these victims. Some of them may have been responsible themselves for their tragic end but still they are victims and were human beings like you and me.

They deserve our utmost sympathy and solidarity. At least for their own families. Any one has a heart for all this? Or does this scandalise you? The good book says there is a period of crying and a period of joy, So cry with those who cry and laugh with those who laugh.

U nimmagina li d-dahka baqghet fuq wiccu wkoll, ta’ l-inqas fejn jarawh in-nies.

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