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Celebrity deaths and you

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Inky_Wretch, Jun 26, 2009.

  1. azom

    azom Member

    It's hard to get teary-eyed over someone you've never met, no matter if you think you "know" them through their work. I save my grieving for the people that would appreciate it.

    I've also written several stories about people that were dead or dying, and those were always tougher than dealing with any celebrity deaths. I've just never been that into celeb-worship, because generally it's set up for failure -- they won't love you back.

    That said, certain celebrity deaths were enough to at least make me pause. George Carlin tops that list. I was just getting into Mitch Hedberg when he died, and that sucked. Dale Earnhardt, even though I have no interest in NASCAR. MJ is now on that list, too. No tears, but a pause.
     
  2. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    It does make me feel better when dead people appreciate my grieving.

    And if you don't think celebs would appreciate being mourned, well...
     
  3. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    Hank Gathers dropping dead on a basketball court really shook me up.
     
  4. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    I'd say Payne Stewart affected me somewhat, I liked him but also his plane crash was so darned haunting. Re-read a lot of stuff about his life and death last week with the 10-year anniversary of his U.S. Open win.
     
  5. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Oh yeah, Payne got me too. Long story, but that was the one day I actually felt a spiritual connection. I've since turned my back on it and remained a horrible person.


    On the positive side, Art Modell's death will be celebrated like Mardi Gras at Casa de IJAG.
     
  6. azom

    azom Member

    Grieving for someone you don't know just doesn't make that much sense to me. That's all. I don't see myself joining a candlelight vigil for Michael Jackson -- or for any other celebrity. Just how I handle it.

    And to add one more I just thought of. Living in Wyoming when Matthew Shepard was murdered definitely caused me and a lot of my friends to hit the pause button.
     
  7. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Yup. I was pretty young at the time -- what was that, 91? -- but I still remember it being all over the news.
     
  8. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    '90...I remember the next day's edition of The National being hard to find.
     
  9. Wenders

    Wenders Well-Known Member

    I will bawl when Garth Brooks dies. He's been my favorite artist for 15 years and I know he'll continue to be one of my favorites.
     
  10. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Is it just me or did it seem like that movie about Gathers was out about five minutes after his death?
     
  11. sg86

    sg86 Member

    I can't think of anyone off the top of my head, but not being a pedophile is a really good way of at least making me feel bad.
     
  12. Beef03

    Beef03 Active Member

    He's the only one I could really think of that would really sadden me. Not sure if I would cry, but I would be bummed for a while. It was his music I grew up listening to, and as someone put it on another thread regarding the deaths of Elvis and Jacko, formed the soundtrack to much of my life growing up (I grew up in rural Alberta, didn't have a local rock station until after I graduated high school).
     
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