Collective mourning is unevenly distributed toward royal deaths over preventable ones.

Evidence

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. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1120

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the article ‘On Sacrifice: The Real Kind, with Corpses’ — both concern which deaths a culture ritually honors and why.