"It's Tragic That We Don't Seem To Realize What A Tragedy This Is..."

Enough already.

Two weeks after the horrific car crash that killed not only him but the passenger whose life was in his steering hands, Ryan Dunn and his absolutely senseless death are still "home page" news on a number of mainstream websites and/or TV and radio outlets.

In the last day or so, yet another gathering of tribute.

http://www.inquisitr.com/122528/ryan-dunn-tribute-memorial-video/

As in most of these stories, the word "tragic" makes an inevitable appearance.

I don't think anyone can argue against these deaths being tragic.

The fault, dear Brutus, isn't the use of the word.

But it's implied meaning.

Tragic...as in two beautiful young lives snuffed out so far ahead of their time...a talented, vibrant pair of young men snatched away before their lives had actually begun....someone's sons, brothers,cousins,nephews, lovers, friends, buddies, pals coming to a brutal and fiery end so....wait for it...tragically.

Personally, I couldn't agree more passionately that the whole thing is a tragedy.

And there is a valid case to be made that the way people feel about this senseless loss is their own business and none of mine.

Since this loss, though, is still finding its way into my daily reading of headlines, national and world news events and overall happenings in the life, I feel justified in chiming in.

I take no exception to the use of the word tragic.

I do have an issue with the attempt to coat the tragedy in a dark chocolate shell of romance.

As if these two deaths were tragic on a par with the loss of young soldiers protecting our freedoms on foreign soil...or the loss of young people losing a valiant fight against terminal illness...or the loss of any young person sacrificing their life to save another under any circumstances....

Ryan Dunn got staggeringly drunk.

And crashed the car he made the choice to drive away, with himself and another human being aboard, into a tree at one hundred and thirty miles an hour.

There's not a soul on the planet that can deny it's a tragedy.

But there is absolutely nothing romantic about it.

Enough already.