I might not be the only person who is trying to find the right way to think about this, so perhaps some discussion is in order.

The easiest kind of public funerals to understand are those for people who have, in their own right, led notable lives or committed acts of heroism. Someone like John Lewis or even Officer Brian Sicknick.

The hardest public funerals to understand are those for people who became public figures because of the way they died. Because they were victims of violence at the hands of a Poice Officer or some similar situation.

In the first example, you are honoring people for a life of service.

In the second, it feels more complicated. These are people who, if they had passed away from natural causes or from an accident, something more commonplace, would have only been known to their families and immediate community.

How would you frame this? How should people think about this and understand it?