This brings to mind the Gemara in Yoma 23a - a story about two Kohanim in the Mikdash who were competing to reach the top of the alter, and one stabbed the other.

The father of the one who was stabbed found his son still convulsing and declared: “May my sons death be an atonement for you, but he is still not yet dead so the knife is pure.”

On that, the Gemara continues, criticizing that reaction: “from this we see, that the purity of the Temple's vessels was more important to them than human life.”

Tonight, while a teenage boy breathed his last, frum people were still singing, dancing, screaming and lighting fires in the street, all l'sheym shamayim of course. For Taharas HaKodesh!

Maybe it's time to stop focusing on the “Tahara” of our youth and start focusing a bit more on their well-being.

But hey, נמות ולא נתגייס, no?