Callous as it might sound at a moment like this, just as many people die on the roads of France every fortnight as perished in Paris last Friday. Bee stings kill as many Britons each year as do terrorist attacks. I lost a close friend in the Bali bombings of 2002. I have also lost friends and family members to botched operations, to breast cancer, to drug overdoses and to suicide. I mourn each of them, but they are all equally dead, as one day we will all be.