Silver linings are lightning bolts: When should you celebrate someone's death

Yesterday May 6, 2023, social media motormouth Ibrahim Tusubira a.k.a Ichuli was silenced forever in a loud spray of gunshots. The deceased was returning home when out of the darkness someone reaped a life they did not sow. The incident happened in Kampala suburb Kyanja which has since been labelled death's womb. And when death visits like that, according to some internet realtors, real estate suffers.

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Maybe it's true, maybe it's not. Maybe humour is some people's public coping mechanism with tragedy, creating their own silver linings.

On the other hand, we have the emotional assailants, the living dead. The ones who live in a shadow of revenge and hurt until death strikes and they cease their revenge in remorseless jubilee. Like death is a punishment.

A number of netizens have brought out age-old dirty laundry with the fallen Ichuli in defence of their right to not mourn the deceased. The deceased who, according to them, shattered their self-esteem, who stood for what he believed in with reckless abandon, and who was, apparently, as remorseless as them.

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Without any public outcry for them to mourn, they bring out the evidence they couldn't confront the deceased about during their lifetime but now use to morally rise above the deceased and those who mourn. They wield a lightning bolt like a silver lining, obscuring the real offender, the unknown murderer, by fighting over the spotlight for their festering wounds.

Police and various public authorities have ordered an investigation, which is underway, into the murder. Perhaps the painter of this gruesome darkness will come to light and all the silver linings will fade. Perhaps death is a purge for intertwined lives in a short-lived moment of grief and hurt.

So when should you celebrate someone's death? When you recognise that it is simultaneously a celebration of your cowardice, defeat, and looting of the dead.