Why It Is Important to Treat Our Fallen Heroes With Dignity? One more hero that I admired has bitten the dust. I was shattered to hear Lance Armstrong admit to doping on the Oprah Winfrey show. But unlike others who started abusing and cursing him for keeping everyone in the dark my heart went out to him and his family. Why do we get angry when the heroes that we admire make mistakes? Are they not human? We all make mistakes and yet we forgive ourselves repeatedly. However when our heroes fail or make mistakes we tend to be unforgiving and our anger often turns to hatred. Most of the time we consider our heroes to be super humans who cannot do anything wrong and when they commit mistakes and prove to be as human as we are we curse and abuse them. Is it right? Are we justified in behaving in this manner? Let us not forget that Lance Armstrong was a great athlete but somewhere down his career maybe he forgot that he was naturally talented and started relying on performance e