# UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in Manhattan \[breaking news: 2024-12-04\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** breaking-news\ **Created:** [December 4, 2024, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unitedhealthcare-ceo-fatally-shot-in-manhattan-breaking-news-2024-12-04/1011159 "2024-12-04T16:11:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 172
**Author:** ![Pedro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@Pedro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pedro)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unitedhealthcare-ceo-fatally-shot-in-manhattan-breaking-news-2024-12-04/1011159/172 "2024-12-05T14:42:19Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > As for grief? I’m not going to dance on the grave, because I’m just not much of a grave-dancer. But around 170,000 people died yesterday. We’re not hearing about this death because he was a good guy, but because he was rich and because he died dramatically. I’ll mourn his death, but he’s got to get in a line of 170,000 deaths to mourn, and he’ll be near the back. Nobody grieves for random strangers. That’s not a thing that exists. But according to you being ambushed and assassinated on the streets of NYC for being the CEO of a company who may have denied an insurance claim is completely unremarkable and not very different to the tens of thousands of people who died peacefully in their sleep of old age yesterday? No word of condemnation, sympathy for the family, nothing? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unitedhealthcare-ceo-fatally-shot-in-manhattan-breaking-news-2024-12-04/1011159)._