Why do people get so upset over people they never knew!? (Celebrity deaths: Why do they affect us?)

Member Name: stephbond89

Product:	Celebrity deaths: Why do they affect us?
Date:	01/08/09 (25 review reads)
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They don't affect me at all....I know that possibly sounds harsh, but they don't affect me.

Lets think of the people who have died recently in the media, the main two I can think of are Jade Goody and Michael Jackson, now Jade Goody when she was alive, I couldn't stand her, I hated her, if she was on TV I would turn it off, if she was in a magazine I'd flick past the article, I didn't like her, I thought she was a thick imbosile who really should have learned to keep her mouth shut if she had something to say which might offend...!

Now when I read (which I couldn't do anything but seeing as it was everywhere...) that she had cancer, I felt very sorry for her and her family, Cancer is not something which I would wish on my worst enemy, it's a horrible illness. But, I wasn't devastated by the fact she had it, it didn't upset me, it didn't affect my everyday life as it would if someone I personally knew had gotten cancer.

Then as it got worse and worse, and she was on the front page of the newspaper every single day, I just started getting very annoyed, the fact she said "I am doing it to make money for my kids"....1...life insurance which she more than likely would ahve had on herself would keep them going for a good few years...PLUS their dad, is Jeff Brazier, someone who makes more money than she did, will keep them perfectly fine. Now if it had been someone like me, and I had two kids, they would have to get by on what was left from any life insurance, and I wouldn't get media attention daily to make money, I'd get by without all of that, like hundreds of women with cervical cancer were when Goody was dying...!!

Now I am not saying it wasn't a sad affair, I'm not saying it's not sad that she got such a horrible illness, and that she left behind 2 young boys and a husband, but she is not the first person to ever get cervical cancer, she most certainly won't be the last, and i think the whole spectacle was ridiculous, at that private time, she should have kept herself out of the limelight and spent quality time with her children and family.

It didn't make me sad, I had never liked her, she was never someone I "Looked upto", and I wasn't going to be one of the people who pretended they;d loved her the whole tiem she was alive when they hadn't!!!

Next onto Jackson, I loved his music, was amazing, but what everyone now is forgetting is the stuff that was in the papers a good few years ago about the children..........why all of a sudden are those who hated him when he was alive now mourn hiM!?!?!?!



All in all, death of celebrities doesn't affect me, I didn't know them personally, they were not my friend, not my family, and I think their families and friedns should be left to grieve without public attention.

Summary: Leave their families alone to grieve for themselves!