I’ve not cried when anyone I’ve known died. I was terribly sad when each one of my pets died but I still did not cry. I wonder what the make up of a person is who is like that. Is it that they lack something or is it that they are ahead of the game. Merely wondering.
I think people should just (not) feel what they (don’t) feel. There’s no right or wrong as such, IMO. Some people are more demonstrative and some are more withheld or, to borrow a Dutch term, “verklempt”. To me it is worse to fake some sort of performative sadness than to not be sad about something that perhaps “most” people would be sad about.
I read an interesting article, I think in The Atlantic, about some guy doing research on what it was like to have various experiences hundreds of years ago. He thinks it’s a mistake to assume that some 15th century artisan accidentally pounding his thumb with a hammer had the exact same response your I would. I think he overthinks it because taken to the extreme, you would question whether the concept of empathy is even valid. But … he does rightly point out that for example hundreds of years ago in most cultures both men and women wept openly in public much more readily and tended to see weeping as a response to divine revelation, not strictly or even mostly a response to sadness.
It all boils down to humanity having a lot more diversity of experience and perception that most of us are conditioned to be open to. My son was neurodivergent, and so is my stepson, so I’ve gotten somewhat “loosened up” around these concepts. Many, maybe even most, neurodivergent people, particularly on the autism spectrum, do not want to be “fixed”, they just want understanding and reasonable accommodations.
I doubt you want a magic pill to enable you to cry more, too 
It is just who you are, and it’s fine.
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