But is it simplification? People react more viscerally to a single death than those of millions.Think about how people emote over the disappearance of a person the news happens to fixate on. Now think about how indifferent people are to the other 14,000 murders that occur in the US each year.

Joan of Arc was burned at the stake on May 31, 1431. They burned her not once, but twice. The second time to reduce her body to ashes so it could not be used for a shrine.