JUNE 2017
Topic: Have we become an emotionally crippled society?
What happened to resilience and getting on with the job?
Aspects of the impact of social media on bereavement were
discussed particularly the apparent ease with which some people
on the peripheral of others lives are able to make inappropriate and
untimely comments relating to sickness and death.
The subject of memorial sites with floral tributes brought up the
general feeling that this enabled people to be connected and
empathize in a way they might not otherwise be able to do. Good
example of this was Lady Diana’s passing. Her untimely death was
in fact when floral tributes were reinstated as the norm apparently
having their origin in the 19th century when such public outpourings
of sympathy and grief were common place.
Much was discussed with many aspects involving resilience but the
general consensus was that we are not less resilient perhaps we
simply have a different way of going about our daily challenges.
3