Quote Originally Posted by lizbud View Post
If I were a mean spirited person, I would probably say something about
Karma & it's eventual effects, but I'm not ,so I won't.
You may not like him, but his friend just died and he's having a bad week. In this instance, if you can't say something nice, then say nothing at all.

From Webster's:
Empathy is the capacity to recognize or understand another's state of mind or emotion. It is often characterized as the ability to "put oneself into another's shoes", or to in some way experience the outlook or emotions of another being within oneself.