Does celebrating one particular life, and death, diminish the many others? I really don't know. You could build the argument that building empathy for one trag

Does celebrating one particular life, and death, diminish the many others? I really don't know. You could build the argument that building empathy for one tragic death exercises the muscle for empathizing with the countless statistics of death. Decentering the experience of human life from riches and visible success to intimately personal experience seems like it would emphasize, hey, maybe poor people's lives have value too. I don't know if I buy that argument. I do know, though, that empathizing with Sheryl Sandberg doesn't make me feel guilty. I still find the intolerable death rate of children, and women, and men in many developing countries horrific. My heart ends up breaking for everyone who loses loved ones.