The third spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, shows Scrooge a Christmas Day in the future. ... When Scrooge asks to see tenderness connected with any death, the ghost shows him Bob Cratchit and his family mourning the death of Tiny Tim.
The appropriate response is repression. It is the mental endeavor made by a person to direct one's own particular yearnings and motivations toward pleasurable impulses by barring the longing from one's cognizance and holding or quelling it in the oblivious.
