The Commonplace Shock

This week's been too strange to be true, and yet it happened: every single day bringing about more shock, forget about readjusting!
Monday's email read:

Astazi dimineata (27 oct), colegul si prietenul nostru Stefan Paun a incetat din viata datorita unui cancer la colon; nu a mai putut fi salvat in ciuda celor 3 interventii chirurgicale.

Dumnezeu sa-l ierte !

Inmormantarea va avea loc joi, la Botosani. Sa-i fie tarana usoara!

it left me muttering some Can-you-believe-that's to myself and a strange bitter taste surrounding the day.
Afterwards, I just stopped trying to keep track of it, whilst the BBC headlines kept going:

...'Human catastrophe' grips Congo...

...India explosions death toll rises...

...300 feared dead in Pakistan quake...

...Cleric held over Somali car bombs...

...West Africa slavery still widespread...

...Car bomb targets Spain university...

And they just keep coming, no room for breathing out of this, no time to give it a thought, almost no reactions spurred.
Well, I find it horrifying.
Truly so, too 'ordinary' to believe it any longer, and still happening Every Single Day.
The fact that "everything's possible these days" stopped being a novetly long ago, and still...
I'd like to wake up to a day without Shocking News, would that please be possible?