Just to place some perspective on the fuss over celebrity deaths lately.
On average, 150,000 people die every day.
I figure they deserve their own thread too.
I kind of agree with what you are saying, but...
Many people identify with certain celebrities and there are those feel as if they know the celebrity, after all, some appear in their sitting room/lounge every evening on TV. A memorable film also has the same effect on people, they seem to think that film and reality are the same things.
i hear what stevej is saying about people identifying with celebrities or feeling like they know them or have a very special memory/attachment to their movies, and certainly loss of a good life is worth mourning, any life.
i hear what stevej is saying about people identifying with celebrities or feeling like they know them or have a very special memory/attachment to their movies, and certainly loss of a good life is worth mourning, any life.
Thanks:) I have to admit when Freddie Mercury died, it did affect me. Also, other musicians have had that same effect, mainly because I grew older listening to their music. I still shudder thinking about the passing of Hendrix and Jim Morrison. Why?? I didn't know any of them!
i hear what stevej is saying about people identifying with celebrities or feeling like they know them or have a very special memory/attachment to their movies, and certainly loss of a good life is worth mourning, any life.
Thanks:) I have to admit when Freddie Mercury died, it did affect me. Also, other musicians have had that same effect, mainly because I grew older listening to their music. I still shudder thinking about the passing of Hendrix and Jim Morrison. Why?? I didn't know any of them!
Phil Ochs, John Lennon, George Harrison. And Gandhi, King, and the Kennedys. What they did/produced had meaning to us, often a positive effect on us, and the their deaths means facing the fact that there will be no new works, that whatever potential they may have had will go unrealized ...
Note that there have been more than one "In Memorium" threads posted here about people who were not necessarily celebrities even within the DPC Community ...
Uhm, I googled "funnet død" (Norwegian: "found dead"), and one of the first one to come up was: "Parents admitting hiding the body of their 8 year old daughter in concrete."
I don't she had a role in Dirty Dancing, though....
I lost a friend of mine whom I met in recovery last week.
She was a lovely, kind, and gentle young woman whose smile would light up a room, and when she was full of hope and gratitude, was one of the most stunning personalities I'd ever met.
But she would never let herself be okay with what she had become in the depths of her addiction, and if you were at all perceptive of people, it was plain to see.
I watched her deteriorate over the last four years, swinging wildly between happiness and hope, and the pits of despair, knowing there wasn't a damn thing I could do for her other than pray for her.
It's pretty awful watching someone kill themselves over time.
She finally lost her battle when the Hepatitus C she contracted during her usage, and the consequent pneumonia took her out.....the ventilator was unplugged last Thursday.
R.I.P. Samantha......your pain is finally over.
I dunno about the other 149,999 people that day, but my heart was certainly broken that this one is gone.
I dunno about the other 149,999 people that day, but my heart was certainly broken that this one is gone.
Sorry fo your loss.
Every life that ends should be celebrated and missed once its gone.
I remember when I was about 4 years old one of my Grandmothers friends died and I asked why she hadnt been on the news as thats where you heard about people dieing, the reality that only famous deaths were reported on the news baffled me for a while!
