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To: ChildOfThe60s

What a terrible thing to say, especially since you do not know how she died.


42 posted on 04/07/2014 12:25:54 PM PDT by Bizzy Bugz
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To: Bizzy Bugz
What a terrible thing to say, especially since you do not know how she died.

Read the 3rd line of my post again. It is sad. But why are "celebrity" deaths any sadder or more noteworthy than those of thousands of good people that die everyday?

My point is simply that our pop culture has elevated the status of celebrity deaths to a level that signifies entertainment a lot more than sympathy or empathy for the human tragedy. I don't wail and rend my garments over the death of someone I never met, and never met anyone that did know her. It is sad for her family and friends. The manner of her passing may indeed make it even more sad...or less as the case may be.

If you have a complaint about anything it ought to be about the media, the fans, the pop culture that worship fragile humans for no logical reason and eventually (in many cases) crushing them. The girl's passing is sad. That's all.

67 posted on 04/07/2014 5:59:23 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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