[he shifts a little, glancing to the front of the stage.] Precisely. Most can't move past the notion that it isn't natural and grow distressed when in reality, they aren't dealing with a true and final death. A mockery of it, certainly, but something that barely possesses a shadow of its true finality.

[it's not that he doesn't understand why a death in Mayfield can be troubling; the exact opposite is true, which is why he's taken up this stance.]