My Tragedy is Better than Your Tragedy

Grief Shaming: Because there is no sport in compassion

Nathaniel Mueller
4 min readJun 4, 2020

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Grief and tragedy were never meant to be digested like professional sports. We don’t have tragedy brackets on ESPN where Unarmed Black Man Shot was beat out by Murdered Cop. We don’t have sports commentators debating the underdog value of advancing Military Hero Dies In Combat to the Final Four Bracket…

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Nathaniel Mueller

If anyone ever questions my purpose or intentions they are simple. I want to do interesting, compelling and meaningful things ALL the time.