Is there any circumstance it is ok to be happy someone died?

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The grim reaper is knocking on the door of my next door neighbor.


She is an awful person, disliked by most.

I will be glad to see her go.

My question is, how wrong is it to have these type of feelings?

Responding to emlion below, I certainly wouldn't voice my true feelings about her passing.

I just want to know if it would be wrong even to feel happy.

Last edited by KevinLA on 01 Mar 2011, 3:19 pm, edited 2 times in total.

hmm.
i think it's seen wrong to voice these opinions.

I don't think you can help what you feel.

Sadly some people do make themselves more of a hindrance than a help on this earth.

I feel sorry for her. I hope her next round is easier.

Last edited by Moog on 01 Mar 2011, 3:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.

If it is wrong, I want to correct how I feel.

To understand why I feel some way that I should not.

Who says you shouldn't?

I think a lot of people feel that way about someone. Like emlion says, they wouldn't necessarily share those feelings.

Awareness and acceptance of the feelings is the important thing. It's one thing to feel something, and another to act upon them.

We can't always get on with everyone.

Different people will have different opinions on if it's right or wrong, from a personal point of view there are some people that I would probably be happy if they died. Without knowing exactly what your neighbour has done to earn the dislike of people around her I can't really comment on whether I'd agree/disagree with the sentiment.

Probably not the answer you're looking for, but looking at it really this isn't a right/wrong situation, it's just how you feel.

For anyone who has bullied in my childhood I could care less what happens to them. Why should I feel any sadness for people who hurt me? They deserve to feel pain. The pain they gave to me won't ever go away. But when they get the pain back especially when it's much worse than what they did to me, all the better.

So long as you don't turn up outside her house while their on the death bed singing "ding dong the witch is dead" and make a big song and dance about it its not like you have a moral obligation to this person in the time of their demise.

WOW that is so funny. Thanks for the laugh. I totally would do it but probably keep it private. This evil neighbor may have tons of friends.

Feelings are not right or wrong. Only acts can be. If you think that feelings have the capacity to be wrong, you will put yourself under mindcontrol.

I also was happy when a neighbor kicked the bucket because this person attempted to sexually harrass me (at >80 years). However, I did not express these feelings to anyone but my plushies.

Your feelings are just that, your feelings; they are not wrong or right they are just yours.

My grandmother died in the summer and I was glad to see her go, not becuase she was horiible but becuase she was in a lot of pain and distress. I still miss her a great deal but am glad shes not suffering anymore.

I don't think people, with a v few execptions, are born nasty, life makes them that way. Your neighbour has obviously had something bad happen to het to make her the way she is. So death for her will be be a realse, wheather it be from mental, pyhical or emontionally pain so feel happy for het in that respect.

Just my view on things.

When i listen news on television and see people in distress or cry i laugh hard

Feelings are something that you can't control.

Both of my grandmothers were well-loved by many people, yet their respective deaths also made it possible for some other people to then just get on with life and be themselves ... and I was glad for those people who would no longer be foolishly stifling themselves in ways *they* thought might best please "Grandma" when she had really demanded nothing in the first place. So while neither of my grandmothers was a "horrible person", I was still glad to "see them go" for other reasons.

I think a lot of people feel like this.
It is understandable, not necessarily wrong.
I still think you should keep these opinions to yourself.

That may be true, but make sure your hate towards them is not hurting you. Holding on to hate for someone may hurt you.