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Why do people mourn?
When someone dies, friends, relatives, even enemies and unknowns mourn the persons death.
Take a look at Ronald Reagans funeral.
Or Stalin's if you want a larger picture.

When I say mourn, let's be straight on the very definition of mourning.
A feeling of sorrow.
Sometimes accompanied with pointed blame (right or wrong, self or others)
Sadness, a feeling of "missing" the person, a want of the person back.

But why?
For all you religious people, death is the ultimate awesome.
Unless you think the guy was a total a*****e, your concious and subconcious are telling you that guy was a good person. Whether you are subconciously thinking that because you don't want to think of the dead as in Hell isn't the point, the point is usually it is thought that "OMFG! HE'SHE IS IN HEAVEN!"
Now if we want the dead back from Heaven, wouldn't that be wanting them back from the most content feeling you could ever have, back to pain and suffering?

Which ties in with you non-religious folk.
The world is full of pain and suffering, of evils and things so inhumane that I cannot even speak of them without bile rising to my throat.
Isn't death good?

Ah what a depressing topic to start my time at this fine guild, but it was just on my mind.

I guess people mourn because it's the only thing they can do at a time like that. If you think about it when you lose somebody close to you in the world there is nothing you an do to bring them back. You are uncapable of doing anything, therefor you are left to have the weight on your shoulders. So the only thing you can do is mourn, I guess. I don't know, that's just what I think. Good question though.

why do people mourn? good question. in my opinion people dont mourn because there selfish. They mourn because someone near and dear to them died. Do we want that person to come back to life? we probably do but its better to leave the dead alone. Is death good? i wouldnt know the answer to that question since i havent died yet. some people are afraid to die. why dont they want to embrace death? maybe its because they have seen people die in front of them or do they not know much about death or is it that they are happy being alive? i will not know the answer to that question either because it all depends on the person. what about those who want to die? why do they want to die? is it because they dont appreciate the life that was given to them even though there are lives being born every day that dont even get the chance to even exeprience one second of life.
and what happens if we die?
is there a such thing as heaven and hell? is there such thing as an afterlife? is there such a thing as recarnation? is there even a God? And when we die what if we all find out that none of these are true that when we died we just lie buried in the ground decaying? I do not know the answer to that. It all depends on how much faith a person has.

Yes there are horrible things about the world we live in.
But there are good things about the world too. Think of the family and friends you have doesnt that make you happy? If you dont have friends or family but arent you grateful to be even alive? You were given a chance at life. You create your own destiny. You choose to mourn. You choose to be happy. You choose to be angry. You choose to be whoever you want to turn out to be. If your not happy about the horrible things happening in the world why are you just sitting there complaining stand up and do something and dont let the world be a horrible place

Hmmm...

I guess they mourn because they'll never see that person again, like most of the above people have said. I don't know. I've never lost anybody close to me, so I wouldn't know. I've lost my grandpa, but I didn't care. We never held a conversation while he lived.

it doesn't necessarily have to be a person if you think about it.People can mourn because of deforestation or animals dying.People can even mourn if something happens in a TV show that they didn't want to happen.
I don't know much about mourning but that's just my say in the matter