This difficult news hits the hearts of all who hear it...The word 'hear' is a big part of heart and may be part of the process some call 'ascension', wherein our heart center of emotions, intuition, lovingkindness and connection are awakening with 'higher frequencies'.
Check out From Strange but True Stories (I think that's what it was called on youtube) and Eve Wilson's Riding the Wave of Change and many others such as Delores Cannon.
There are ideas that ascending is about remembering that we are immortal, indestructible, spiritual or soulful beings from a 5th dimension who come