What makes you sad every time you think about it ?

[Imaybeacat]

There’s been a lot of sharing story threads so i’d like to start one - to start such a sad one
What story or fact about somebody/something etc makes you sad whenever it crosses your mind ?
For me it’s a late singer named Tiny Tim… I watched a video about him a few days ago and it’s been bloody depressing me . Whenever he pops into my head I have to go take a break and do something distracting!! Poor guy.
Need to feel better. Am I alone in this ?

Aberfan. The episode of the Crown that portrays it was so well done, I sobbed so hard and my DH had to ask if we should turn it off

@bloodywhitecat What an amazing person you are .

Manchester Arena victims
Especially those who could have lived if there had been a decent emergency service

I saw a documentary about 15 years ago where a herd of elephants shunned an orphaned baby, and it followed the herd around desperate for food until it passed away.

I broke my heart over it, I cried so much I couldn't eat or anything, DH was confused. But that wee baby was just so, so sad.

This kind of thing makes me angry. They would have a less memorable documentary if they said "If left to it, this baby elephant would starve to death. But as we are not soulless monsters we have taken this baby to a sanctuary where he will be cared for." That doesn't win awards though...

Same thing for My Octopus Teacher. "Here I am, invading this creature's space every day for months, putting her at risk when she flees from me, gradually gaining her trust, now she's happy to be out in the open and not hiding and camouflaged because she has a big protector. Remember those nearby sharks I mentioned earlier in the doc> Here comes one right now! Well, I must not interfere with the natural way of things. Here she is struggling to get back to her den after the attack, so sad, poor thing. Wonder how many awards I'll get for this..."

I hate this exploitative bullshit.

Grenfell. I was really affected by it. Devastated for all those poor people, both those who died and the survivors, and absolutely livid that it was allowed to happen.

The fact that my lovely dad died a few years ago and I will never see him again. Even typing that is making me cry.

Jamie Bulger, so sad. My DH worked with a retired police officer from that case. All he would say was that the public would never know the true extent as to what that poor child had suffered.
They should both have been hung.

I worked with a guy who had previously worked at the high security youth place they were detained in. He said he had vomited for nearly 3 days solid after finding out what had actually happened to him. He said the bits they've told the public are nothing compared to the truth of what actually happened. He said one of them was pure evil - the other one just a silly easily led boy.

Utterly heartbreaking.

The tiny body of the refugee boy washed up on a beach.

Don’t know why I’m reading or adding to this thread, it’s breaking my heart.

Testament of Youth.

9/11
James Bulger
Daniel Pelka
The Soham murders
The Chillenden murders
Hillsborough
So many to mention, can't stand children (or adults) suffering or dying, or anything to do with animals being hurt or abused. Life can be very cruel at times to some

@NotMyDayJob

Aberfan. The episode of the Crown that portrays it was so well done, I sobbed so hard and my DH had to ask if we should turn it off

I recall coming home from school and my mother sitting on the sofa sobbing about Aberfan. The Crown made some very overt criticisms about the Queen's response but the last thing they needed that weekend was a dignatory like HM turning up, she went later when sadly nothing more could be done. In a lighter vein, I've just seen the newest Bond film and am still stunned.

Racism

Little Boy Blue when the hospital orderly put Everton bedding where Reeces body lay in the morgue so his mum could pretend he was just sleeping 😢

The images from an old documentary about Romanian Orphanages. 8/9/10 years old in cots they are in day in day out. Toddlers in filthy clothing and little to no care- really harrowing.

Images of emaciated women in Aushwitz on the bunk/multi level beds. Knowing they had to put the strongest on the top level and the weakest towards the bottom especially if they were very close to death or had a contagious illness.

Dunblane, listening to the story unfold on the radio that day at work was so distressing

I read recently a really sad thought provoking thing.

At some point in your life, your parents pick you up, then put you down for the last time.

Made me really thankful I can pick my little girl up still

@PinkMoon22

The little girl Asiah who was left for 6 days when her mum went out drinking. I can't bare to think what that little girl went through

Yes , I thought of this straight away when I saw this thread. Not sure if it’s because it’s fairly recent , or it was in the news shortly after my DS was born but I often think about it and it makes me cry. That poor poor girl

@NebbiaZanzare

Alfredino

It’s an Italian news story. They filmed the whole event as it played out and stuck it on the telly. I had only recently arrived in Italy, knew nothing about what had happened to that poor little boy, so my defences were down and the floodgate just collapsed behind my eyes.

Just the name brings tears to my eyes. His poor mum.

I also had just arrived in Italy - it was heartbreaking

@Whinge

Something I read on here year and years ago. I have no idea what the thread was about, but a poster mentioned a child's funeral. The child was 6 when they died and the parent's read this read out as part of the service

But now I am six,
I'm as clever as clever.
So I think I'll be six now
for ever and ever.

I can't hear the poem now without thinking about that poster and the poor child.

One of the Dunblane children has that on his tombstone. It is unbearable.

I can't remember which country it was but there was a line of refugees fleeing from conflict in a country in Africa. They were ill and starving. A little two year old boy was with his parents who died on the roadside. He toddled along with the crowd until they reached safety, with no parents and no family. It breaks my heart every time I think about it. I often wonder what happened to him.

I saw it on the news when I was about 14.

I follow a Spanish dog rescue page on FB, and sometimes they pick up a dog from the streets and they are riddled with cancer, but still so full of life.
The rescue takes them out for their best last day ever and feed them all the bad food. They get PTS surrounded by love they never knew before, and it just breaks me every time.
I can think about it out in public and end up in tears.

Inequality for girls and women - the disgusting violence that happens day in and day out.
Luckily I am in a job that delivers justice

Naya Rivera
I’ve never watched glee so I didn’t know who she was, but the thought of her getting her son back on the boat and then drowning, she must have died so scared that he’d end up back in the water. And her son sitting on that boat alone and waiting for his mum to come.
I don’t know why this story specifically but it always makes me tearful.

@Corroboree why will you never have sex?

Holding my beautiful perfect full term baby in my arms.
I howled like a wolf.
Anything and everything makes me sad when it’s women or children being abused or killed.
The memory of meeting my only living (seriously disabled) daughter for the first time (tears of joy and disappointment) - I realised she was much more disabled than we’d expected- on the plus side she is also fantastic

Sorry stillborn full term daughter

My own mother had a very similar story. We have no connection to Wales, other than my family is from a different part of the UK with a strong mining tradition. But after we spoke about the episode my DM told me about her own mother crying.

And yes, I also cried at the new Bond!