/lit/ - Literature

My dog started dying a week ago and he's coming to the end of a drawn out intestinal infection now. He's been a good companion for the past decade through my major formative years.
The news about the train aspy burning over 30 of the KyoAni people to death puts things pleasantly in perspective for me however. Is this a form of catharsis? Dozens of individuals brutally perish, some are left with horrific burns, hundreds of family members and friends are thrown in to grief - all because an autist was enflamed against them for popularizing his favourite trainspotting location. And how many dogs have lived and died decade by decade since mankind vassalized them?
This is all stoic cope though, I'm sad.