THIS shattered my heart into pieces and made me feel all kinds of despair.

"silenced. we both know that after a
certain number of deaths, it becomes
a statistic, the mind glosses over it,"

I know this feel all too well. The fact that when a big number of people die in a battle/pandemic/natural disaster, the value of each one of those people is lost and they're just statistics on TV channels. They're no longer PEOPLE, they're now a number.
Incredibly moving.

Mark, this has killed me too. Especially that last line, it gave me goosebumps.