News stories that stay with you and upset you

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I've been reading the updates around the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy tonight, and my God it's horrible. A comment I saw on Reddit described it as "Stephen King level of horrifying" and it really is, I can't stop thinking about it. Such a great actor, gets to a grand age of 95 and then... Alzheimer's takes his mind and he ends up living in the house with his wife's body for a week? and unable to feed/save their dog too? Unimaginable.

I've also been reading the court reports from the Kyle Clifford trial, the evil feral thing who murdered John Hunt's wife and daughters. That is evil beyond all belief.

These stories have rooted in my brain and I can't seem to distract myself. Has this happened to you, with news events? How do you cope with it?

Don’t be ridiculous, saying she’s got a sick mind. It’s a fact he was a wealthy man and with that amount of wealth comes luxury and privilege that millions could only dream of. He was also lucky to be alive until 95. Old age is a privilege.

Yes it’s sad what happened to him in his last weeks for life, but millions of people suffer in the last few weeks of their life. Most people aren’t lucky enough to just fall asleep and die peacefully. That’s the reason there is such a debate about assisted dying as it can be absolutely brutal and peope don’t want to see their loved ones suffer.

Most of the stories above involve kids and young adults and the brutality of what’s happened to them and their lives that have been robbed. There is nothing normal about what happened in all these horrific cases involving killings and murders and it’s not standard.

Looks like you have too much time on your hands (and a big nose)

Looks like you’re about 10 with that come back!

Got the point across though, obviously!

You certainly did.

Yes it's almost like a film starring
um, Gene Hackman.
I bet some TV exec is buying the rights now and it'll be on Channel5 next year...

Result!

Yes I agree Daniel Pelka.

I thought a lot about children who might have been living like Daniel in lockdown.

There are plenty of other stories, but Daniel sticks with me.

Oh my god. I'll have the pretend that didn't happen... that is absolutely horrific.

I thought this only happened with me. The story for me is 13 y.o Dylan redwine whose father mark was featured on Dr. Phil. Dylan went missing when he was at his dad’s (Mark) for the weekend. Divorced parents. I was divorced and my son was a bit younger than Dylan but he watched the episode. It clearly impacted him as he asked me months later about it. Dr. Phil tried very very hard to get Mark to tell him Dylan’s whereabouts. They even showed them after the taping sitting in two leather chairs with Phil saying….”listen if you have him hid some where at most you are facing non compliance with parenting/ custody order. Let me help you tell me where Dylan is” Later not sure of how much time had passed Dylan’s body was found in a dry well I believe on his father’s remote primitive property. Divorced parents mom had voiced concerns didn’t want Dylan to go and Mark hated his ex wife. Dylan is not forgotten and I really noted and appreciated Dr. Phil’s earnest empathetic response to try to find Dylan when he may still have been alive.

Amber Gibson. Utterly tragic story. The poor girl suffered so much in life and again in death.

Oh my god. What an awful decision to have to make.

😘

You're smarter than me - I've read the whole thread up until your post. I'll stop reading now.

A lot of people began putting food in low cupboards just in case after this was reported

I think the reason the individual cases hang on when the genocide doesn't is because your mind can't comprehend hundreds and thousands of children dead? one child with their face in the news is a tragedy 100 children? Your mind cuts out its impossible to comprehend

This has made me very sad too. I hope he wasn't too terrified in that week. Such a tragic story all round.

I often think of Corrie McKeague and Harry Dunn.

Thir parents have fought so hard for answers and justice. I am in awe of their strength.

When I was a teenager I was very upset about the horrific murders of Bosniak Muslim families by their Serb & Croat neighbours, people they had gone to school with, during the conflict in the old Yugoslavia.
One of my sister's friends Jodie was a young soldier in the peacekeeping forces. She told us that she walked into a bar one day to find it full of dead bodies.

Sadly my grandfather apparently fought in Yugoslavia during World War Two & as a child my Dad found he'd kept horrific photos of atrocities carried out on the local Serb and anti fascist population by the Croatian Militia.
My Dad never forgot those images.

The children left alone in the house by their mother, and then died in a house fire. They were found under their beds.

And I heard a woman on woman's hour a while ago talking about her sons. She had tried to prevent her ex husband from having contact because she said he was a danger, but hadn't been able to. He took the boys, took them into the attic, and set fire to the house. One of the boys and the dad died in the fire, the other boy died a few days later in hospital after saying to the firefighter "my dad did this and he did it on purpose".

I wasn't really aware of it at the time, but I was horrified reading about Eric Clapton's son's death when my own kids were a similar age.

This.

I’m not condoning what he did.
I just found the graphic report of his death by firing squad very upsetting.
Which was the point of the OP starting this thread.

I've read about six posts and wondering about the merit in this thread tbh.

I often think about the toddler who was left for 6 days by her mother who was out celebrating her birthday and died. The poor little girl.

It was in a block of flats apparently the toddler didn’t even cry out any more as she’d been left previously and no-one came.