Why do some people not show emotion or feel emotion when dealing with death/dead people?
I’m surprised no one else brought this up: Shock. When people are in shock their emotional system shuts down and they don’t feel much of anything. I’ve had this happen to me a few times in my life. It takes time for the mind to recover and eventually let the emotions out. Sometimes the emotion just isn’t there. I’m not the sort who displays phony emotions so if I don’t feel it, I don’t fake it. I have found it harder to take the death of one of my cats than any of my relatives.
