I once interviewed an American lawyer who had helped prosecute Nazis at Nuremberg, and he had watched them hang, and when I asked him to describe the experience, he said, “Harrowing,” not because he had any misgivings about Nazis being punished for their crimes, but because we were talking about life and death, and it felt monumental. This is how normal people think. They don’t celebrate death — even the death of someone who didn’t vote the way they would have preferred he voted. They’re certainly not “overjoyed” by it. They may come to the conclusion that it’s necessary and just, as in the case of the American lawyer at Nuremberg, but they are also cognizant of the gravity, the finality, of death. They are not Bolsheviks or savages about it.