I thought it was just me.
There's nothing wrong with expressing condolences and support, but surely it can be done without some of the over-emotive gushing, poetry spouting and emotional diahorrea we've started to see?
Or is it just a symptom of the creeping 'emotionalisation' of wider society, in which we festoon the roadsides with posies after accidents and heap flowers on the makeshift shrines that spring up at the scenes of tragedies, crying and emoting about people we didn't know?