Much of the English-speaking world went into a strange kind of heart-thumping mourning, the kind of collective mourning our culture has not engaged in for so many other deaths: bad deaths, preventable deaths, premature deaths, tragic deaths.

QUESTION: What determines which deaths merit collective mourning? The author suggests a hierarchy of 'grievable deaths' worth exploring.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 1120