Cairns stabbing: Eight children murdered

We seem to be a little memorial mad here in Australia to be honest. What happened is tragic and horrible don't get me wrong, but this morbid obsession we have of constantly reminding ourselves of tragedy by building memorials is to me a little disturbing. That is just me though, everyone deals with things differently.

 

What kind of connection are you waiting for?

It is a news story. In Australia. A tragedy such as this one reverberates on our society and politics. To some extent it may also reshape it in some way. This tragedy may possibly change how we implement family assistance / or intervene more.

Overall, though, I am posting a tragic news story that broke my heart. Not the connection you were looking for, I know.

 

In another article I read, it seemed almost more to be about the fact that they couldn't allow the house to stand any more. That it had to be knocked down.

The memorial may help others to honour and reflect on the children.

 

Like I said Gwen, everyone deals with things differently. Sure the house must go, who would live there ??? I was generalising a little about our morbid obsession with building memorials to constantly remind us of tragedies. It seems to me to be a thing that has grown over the last couple of decades. I know we have our war memorials and such, but to memorialise crime scenes to me is a bit overly morbid. I would hate to own the houses that abutted this sorry house.

 

On Mornington Is as you come out of the airport there are some white pillars with flowers at the base. There was a crash there 15 years ago that took the lives of five elders, In the tradition of the people living there nothing can be said of those who died - not the names, not the deeds nothing, Often for indigenous people, because of this cultural inhibition, memorials are more important

 

I agree totally. Some people have a morbid obsession & sick fascination with building memorials to remind others of tragedies, and then in another breath they tell us to try and forget and move on - now what's wrong with that picture. How the hell are you suppose to try and forget and move on with a memorial constantly reminding you all the time

 

Memorials remind us how bad something was and to raise the concern that it is far from being acceptable or right and remember those that suffered during that tragedy. I've seen the "sweeping under the carpet " mentality bite people in the arse on many levels so many times!

 

How does a scab ever heal, when you keep picking it?

 

Who would want to buy or rent a house knowing eight children have lost their lives there?

 

If you continue to run on the same slippery floor, you will continue to scrape your knee. Prevention is better than a cure!

 

Who would want to live in the same neighbourhood or next-door to where 8 kids were killed is a better question.

Australians have a morbid sick fascination in memorialising death of any kind.

Who the hell would seriously want a big glamorous memorial in a suburban neighbourhood advertising where 8 young kids were murdered, for other sick fuc*ks to drive around and gawk at.

Aussies are turning into being a bunch of seriously sick fuc*kers.

Even with accidents on the roads, the Aussie sicko's slow down the traffic to a snails pace, and have their fat faces pressed up against the windows so they can have a gawk at someone who is injured or dead.

 

This is a universal thing. Happens everywhere. Human nature I guess wanting to see the carnage.

 

Several politicians flew in today to get a selfie!
Wouldn't have even known they were alive, but when dead, politicians immediately want to be their friends.

 

have you stopped to think the illness lead to the lifestyle choice?

 

What a load of crap. Every time some wacko murders someone, they, or some do-gooder faction tries to blame everything or everyone for that individuals behaviour and actions except the person responsible and accountable. I'm sorry, but inanimate objects like a "lifestyle" don't make a person choose a lifestyle, a living person chooses their own lifestyle.

An inanimate lifestyle doesn't tap someone on the shoulder a say: choose me - choose me, the person makes the lifestyle choice.

 

It's pretty simple to understand. I guess some people have to some how find a way to pull their own head out of their own arse first before understanding many things. For some people it would be shoved in pretty tight.

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It's pretty simple to understand. I guess some people have to some how find a way to pull their own head out of their own arse first before understanding many things. For some people it would be shoved in pretty tight.

 

What a load of rubbish. Its like a group of teenages experimenting for the first time with cigarettes, alcohol or pot. They all make an independent conscious decision to partake in the activity, because they themselves want to experiment, or want to become part of that group. To suggest that every teenage partakes in an activity because of their lifestyle or becuase they ALL have a mental illness is simply a nonsense.

The same can be said for adults who constanly blame mental illness and lifestyles on the bad decisions and choices they themselves independently make. Everyone has a choice, and to always blame an inanimate object or inanimate condition on an individual personal choice, is just facilitating and excusing their bad inappropriate behaviour.

Its time individuals were held accountable and responsible for their own decisions and behaviour without always trying to blame something else or someone else for it.

The majority of individuals over the age of 10 know good & bad, and right and wrong, and should be held accountable and responsible for their actions regarding THEIR decision making process.

Treating adults like 2 year olds who don't know the difference between right & wrong - good and bad is ridiculous. If adults are as mentally deficient as a 2 year old, then they should be locked up, and away from society forever.