Have you ever received the news?!
Question: that one of your relative died (someone you haven't seen for 20 years and who was very old) and you felt nothing?
and you felt like a jerk for feeling nothing and wondered what should you do to behave properly? how much of a social custom is to feel bad about something like this and how much is for real?
Answers: that one of your relative died (someone you haven't seen for 20 years and who was very old) and you felt nothing?
and you felt like a jerk for feeling nothing and wondered what should you do to behave properly? how much of a social custom is to feel bad about something like this and how much is for real?
it's more of a social ritual, I think. you'd better express your condolences, but otherwise there's nothing more you can do...
no, i think it's normal. you haven't been around them and you don't know them to miss them. i would be empathetic because someone did die but i wouldn't fall over their grave in tears.