Dear Rbzs,
The part of the Chasam Sofer you posted, does not say that. I am interested in the rest, and hope to take a look at it today. Thanks.
I still very much doubt your point about tragedy occuring on the basis of averting a larger destruction. If you please source that one a bit better, that would be great!
To me, calling the departed a korbon, focuses on their last moments, instead of their life. When the public is also mourning, it could overtake the whole aftermath, and the mourners sort of lose connection with their loved ones’ life story. Magnifying the end, could minimize everything that came before it. Same feeling I have when I go to a shiva house, and hear a medical roundtable on some disease. Or a discussion of every instance of a demise similar to what had occurred in this family. I realize that there is a place for that also, but it seems off when it dominates the whole time. Also, Shiva houses, can get numb when they are forced to entertain for hours straight. I have seen great people go to comfort by sitting quietly until discussion becomes uncomfortable, to great effect. Okay, enough lecturing.
What really bothers me with calling a tragedy a korbon, is that is not the idea of korbonos. Should we all be granted the opportunity to bring a Todah, would we be thinking of these terrible events? Of course not! This sense of korbon, seems a bit pagan to me. As in Michah 6.