Fear of guilt by association suppresses public mourning at mafia funerals.

Evidence

The lamentations, the wails, the grief-stricken faces, and the contortions of the body have today practically disappeared. The classic mourning tears are hardly any longer to be found in Algeria. All this began in 1955 when the French troops, for the fun of it, or in the course of a repression, would overrun a locality and machinegun five or ten men. These collective deaths, without warning, without a previous illness that had been treated and fought, abandoned in the ditch on the edge of the road, cannot set into motion emotional mechanisms that are homogeneous to a society. Lamentations and grief-stricken faces are part of a patterned, stable world. One does not weep, one does not do as before when one is faced with multiple murders. One grits one’s teeth and one prays in silence. One further step, and it is cries of joy that salute the death of a moudjahid who has fallen on the field of honor. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 389 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Mourning is work. It is not simply being sad. It is naming your pain. It is witnessing the sorrow of others, drawing out the shape of loss. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 298 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

I think funerals and graveyards seek to mend these fences and bridge these gaps between our fears and fond feelings, between the sickness and the sadness it variously awakens in us, between the weeping and dancing we are driven to at the news of someone’s dying. — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 367 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Collective political murder suppresses traditional mourning in favor of silent gritting — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 389; Public mourning is active psychological work rather than passive sadness — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 298; Graveyards serve to bridge gaps between fear and fondness. — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 367

Related

• Collective political murder suppresses traditional mourning in favor of silent gritting (similarity 0.87)
• Public mourning is active psychological work rather than passive sadness (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Collective political murder suppresses traditional mourning in favor of silent gritting #contradicts (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 389
• Public mourning is active psychological work rather than passive sadness #contradicts (0.78) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 298
• Graveyards serve to bridge gaps between fear and fondness. #complicates (0.72) — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 367