Anyway, I also developed my own sense of righteous indignation toward people who couldn't offer condolences without poking people with daggers in the process.
If you don't have the ability to help, you can still offer condolences without offering assistance.
Ireland's president, Michael D Higgins, has also been criticised for signing the book of condolences in Dublin without mentioning human rights abuses.
It allows users to express condolences for something without actually writing anything thoughtful or sympathetic in a comment This is the closest Facebook has come to a 'dislike' button - an angry smiley with a heavy brow that turns a particularly furious shade of red when animated.
Each one would have heard his own work praised and appreciated without it being obvious that there was any element of condolence involved.
In the other half, US authorities issued "condolence" payments - discretionary payments capped at $2,500 - offered "as an expression of sympathy" but "without reference to fault".
Condolence to the Feliciano family.
A note of condolence, perhaps?
"Let me say in no uncertain terms the U.S. condemns these acts and condemns the failure to condemn them," Biden told reporters, in an implicit criticism of Abbas, who later offered condolences for Force's death without criticizing the attack.
