death in two lands

My browser opens up to http://apple.netscape.com/apple.adp mainly because I'm too lazy to change it. This morning I was hit by a weird juxtaposition of headlines. First in red print came "CNN - U.S. Blamed as Mosque Mortar Barrage Slaughters 25." Below that headline was this article, flanked by an idyllic cemetery picture complete with sunset: "The Best Places in the U.S. to Die --
When it comes to estate taxes, states can vary greatly. Find out where the tax burden is lower." I dunno. I felt that strange broiling in my gut that means something's off. I guess I couldn't put the two things together in the same world. I couldn't move from the U.S. slaughtering to the U.S. dying peacefully and financially well off. I kept thinking of the unbridgeable schism between the two kinds of death. And that the second death, the daily mundane stuff of keeping our affairs in order, somehow obscures the first death, that as citizens of this country, we each bear responsibility in each individual slaughter. Not sure how to walk through the day with that kind of schism.