Ask HN: What is the real value of a “Day of mourning”?
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It does help. Giving people time to be sad, angry, and then accepting means they won't carry all those unprocessed emotions forward with them.
I came in here expecting to see a joke about the day in Alaska that is almost 24 hours.
>On June 21, Anchorage gets 22 hours of functional daylight.
https://www.anchorage.net/plan-your-trip/hours-of-daylight/
>On June 21, Anchorage gets 22 hours of functional daylight.
https://www.anchorage.net/plan-your-trip/hours-of-daylight/
This helped me get closer to understanding: https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/12/funeral.html
Morning or mourning?
My question is does somber reflection result in any benifit other than enabling the spin doctors to come up with a concensus as to the lies that will be told?