I'd be scared to say this out loud, but on a course recently one of the guys talked about "grief-surfing" and "emotional snot" and I think those terms well cover the distaste I feel at some of the outpourings of grief over the deaths of strangers.

We see it here after accidents, when people who have not known the victim, turn up with flowers and wail publicly.

I'd always just assumed that I was too repressed, but I think the guy on the course summed it up well, and I think your attitude is the healthy one.