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 ?

Daniel Pelka, that poor child 💔💔💔 I've often thought of him and shed a tear 💔

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-22786765.amp

Keith Blakelock

@EvenRosesHaveThorns

Last year, I found a man hanging in my local woods. He was in his 20s, depressed by lockdowns and state of the planet. Can't imagine how his family feel

That could have been my friend. I've often thought of, and felt terribly sorry for, whoever found him, and others like him. How you get over that I don't know.

Recently came across Tiffany wright and read the story of her abuse , she was the same age as my daughter is now and I was in tears, really so much evil in the world.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2010/feb/06/child-neglect-adrian-levy-cathy-scott-clark

Oh yes a lot of these
And
Sarah Payne
Hungerford Massacre
And Surfside building collapse

YY to Keith Blakelock. There is also a verse which goes along the lines "everyone in your life will have a last day with you, and you don't even know when it
will be"

James Bulger was the first thought that came into my head. I can't bear to think about it. And 9/11.

Grenfell Tower

Thank you, your reply has really touched me. It was terrible, but there was yet something oddly peaceful about the scene & the dignity shown by the responders, despite the tragedy, and I wish I had had the chance to tell his family that, perhaps as a crumb of comfort for them

Aberfan.

All child murders.

Thinking of April Jones really breaks my heart 😢

Many of the things mentioned already. But also, George Michael. I sort of forget he's no longer with us til I hear his music. Such a beautiful talented soul and yet so sad somehow.

I googled Alfredino and it brought a tear to my eye.

Nazanin having been held in Iran for over 5 and a half years. Richard now on day 6 of hunger strike still battling for our government to act.

The Buncranna tragedy. It just horrifies me, every time I think of it. In fact I think of it everytime I visit a harbour and see a slip way.

Awful beyond words. I hope the Mum and daughter are finding some joy in life now.

When they lobotomise Jack Nicholson in one flew over the cuckoos nest. And the realisation that this happened to so many people with mental illnesses not that long ago.

Similar to the baby orphaned elephant , there was ( I think Blue Planet) one programme years ago. A herd of elephants in a duststorm. A calf got split up from his mum then caught her scent and went cantering along the trail in the opposite direction to the herd
I don't know how far he strayed .

The "staggering under the weight of more than he should carry" working donkeys . The images they show are grim but this is their life . DH and I went to Egypt years ago , it is heartbreaking .

The news stories that are constant ( and we probably only see a tiny % making headline news) of children abused and murdered by those who should protect and cherish them.

People just being so bloody intolerant . If the elderly man in front of you is a bit slow , give him space , give him time .
If the woman in front of you chats to the cashier , don;t get the hump , it might be the only person she'll speak to today .
The AgeUk advert where the man on the phone explains he's a bit lost since his wife died ....
And yes I know people can be cantankerous in older age , maybe they were in younger years (I work with older people )

And knowing that all my animals (cat then guinea-pigs now more cats) which were all rescues didn't have great beginnings .
Not cruelty thankfully . Unwanted or dumped . But sad they had to live this .

Baby P.

Dunblane.

Having to tell my 5 and 7 year olds their lovely daddy had died.

He is missing so much, and so are we.

@BlameItOnTheBlackStar

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 . But that wee baby was just so, so sad.

Yes! I remember that. Shook me up, too.

Hannah Cornelius. What that poor, poor girl and then her family went through. Followed the story and it has always stayed with me.

tunnocks I’m so sorry.

@antoniawhite

tunnocks I’m so sorry.

Thank you. Btw I love Frost in May

So many things, but one that sticks out, a little girl that was taken from a tent in her uncles back garden where she was having a sleep over with cousins, and then very badly raped/buggered and murdered by a homeless man known in the area. The thought of what that child went through before she was killed cuts me to pieces.

tunnocks Me too! I’ve been badgering the BBC to rerun the dramatisation they did of it in the 80s, but no luck yet!