You don't realise how personal it is until you look behind the statistics.

[2hd.]

One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

When Cho-Seung-Hui killed 32 people, the first large amounts of messages of condolence weren't in the form of spoken word or phonecall.

In fact, it wasn't a surprise that the large number of teens and adults had registered on myspace.com

If you look at the myspaces below you'll see how personal each of the deaths are. These myspace comments go from people trying to contact victims to messages of condolence.

One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

Jed

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endID=22906768
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...iendid=6266415
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endid=14903990

More can be found at the site www.mydeathspace.com (a spiritual sight, not a pee take)

[RedStratocas]

Ive heard that quote before. Its pretty funny how true it is actually. And everyone thinks of Stalin as one of the most evil people of the last century.

[Plank]

the comments on their myspaces are quite sad to read.

[Wootzeh]

It's sad to read people telling them to ring home because they heard about it on the news and we worried, yet later that day they heard they were dead

[Papershop]

Im quite sad now

[cocaine]

if you read the comments before the incident and then look at the ones after they were killed its really sad.

[PaulMacC]

I find it really sad that their friends are telling them call home call home and then they find there dead.

[-Soph-]

thats really sad...

[le harry]

Tragic

[Shawnstra]

Its saddening that the fact that you know of a person who is dead. Furthermore, her friends and relatives all miss her deeply. And I see all the happy comments before this event, and all the people asking her to call them.

Rest in Peace