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A massive public outpouring of grief when a person you don't know and you've never met dies? For example a celebrity.
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A massive public outpouring of grief when a person you don't know and you've never met dies? For example a celebrity.
What I don't understand is why some people go beyond showing respect and attack anyone tooth and claw who they deem to have not displayed enough sympathy. It's like starting a fight at a funeral.
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I've been to two funerals where the deceased could have been a better person.
But they also had their good points and could be a good friend or loved or give love. No-one slagged them off for their bad points at the Wakes afterwards, although there was some mild ribbing over funny stories. Lots of laughter and some tears of course. Never speak ill of the newly dead (until safe to do so at a later date, and even then you have to be careful) |
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I've been to two funerals where the deceased could have been a better person.
But they also had their good points and could be a good friend or loved or give love. No-one slagged them off for their bad points at the Wakes afterwards, although there was some mild ribbing over funny stories. Lots of laughter and some tears of course. Never speak ill of the newly dead (until safe to do so at a later date, and even then you have to be careful)
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Thatcher is an exception
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I didn't even cry at the funerals of my beloved relatives so the death of a celebrity is hardly likely to reduce me to floods of tears.
I will never forget when Diana passed, hundreds of grown men blubbering in the street over someone they had never even met - how embarrassing. That was simply mass hysteria. Mind you that reaction was mostly down South - in Hull the news was received in a far more reasonable manner. However Freddie, Ali, Christopher Lee and to some extent Bowie did make me think for a while - but that's all. |
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It really doesn't bother me someone i don't know dying!
Ok, so it's a shock to hear the news and perhaps it is playing on your mind for a few hours, but .....Unless it is someone I know REALLY well, personally, it leaves me totally bewildered how people react to such news. I remember the way the public reacted to the death of Princess Diana - total mass hysteria. Taking small children to lay flowers and wreaths for someone who meant absolutely nothing to these little ones, to me, seemed very wrong. |
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I didn't even cry at the funerals of my beloved relatives so the death of a celebrity is hardly likely to reduce me to floods of tears.
I will never forget when Diana passed, hundreds of grown men blubbering in the street over someone they had never even met - how embarrassing. That was simply mass hysteria. Mind you that reaction was mostly down South - in Hull the news was received in a far more reasonable manner. However Freddie, Ali, Christopher Lee and to some extent Bowie did make me think for a while - but that's all. I don't cry when a famous person dies, I might feel a bit sad and that's all. But I don't judge other people if they cry or not, it's not at all embarrassing to show emotion. |
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I might sound a bit hypocritical saying this, considering how sad I feel about George, and I admit I did cry.
When Princess Diana died, I was sad, but I thought some of the outpouring of grief was OTT. People outstretching their arms, wailing, just completely inconsolable. My neighbours at the time, even put a picture of Diana in their front window and made their young children stay in to 'grieve' with them. |
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That's you though, not everyone is wired to be emotionless.
I don't cry when a famous person dies, I might feel a bit sad and that's all. But I don't judge other people if they cry or not, it's not at all embarrassing to show emotion. It would be a lot easier. But funerals in particular leave me stone-cold (especially religious ones). The person has gone - what's left is a shell. I do all my mourning in private. Usually the only ones in floods of tears at a service are the long lost friends or grasping relatives who did not give a shit about the person whilst they were still alive. As for celebrity deaths - you have not met the person so it is hard to understand why some people are so utterly devastated when an idol passes. |
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I tend to be shocked or taken aback when a celebrity I don't know apart from their fame dies. Especially if its someone who was youngish or shows no sign of illness. As with Princess Diana.
Upset, not really. |
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I am not emotionless far from it - in fact I am far too sensitive and emotional for a bloke and I deeply wish that I was not sometimes.
It would be a lot easier. But funerals in particular leave me stone-cold (especially religious ones). The person has gone - what's left is a shell. I do all my mourning in private. Usually the only ones in floods of tears at a service are the long lost friends or grasping relatives who did not give a shit about the person whilst they were still alive. As for celebrity deaths - you have not met the person so it is hard to understand why some people are so utterly devastated when an idol passes. That's an unfair thing to say and simply not true. I cried a lot at the funerals of my granddad and my dad and I most definitely did "give a shit" about them when they were alive. |
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IAs for celebrity deaths - you have not met the person so it is hard to understand why some people are so utterly devastated when an idol passes.
You don't have to meet a person to be upset when they pass away, if you grow up watching/following an actor or musician then you feel like you know them. Like for an example I grew up watching Robin Williams films, got happy memories of watching them with the family, and they've got me through hard times when I felt down and sad, so when he died I was upset because I was a big fan and liked him as a person. |
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That's an unfair thing to say and simply not true.
I cried a lot at the funerals of my granddad and my dad and I most definitely did "give a shit" about them when they were alive.
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Happy to admit I'm borderline sociopath and really feel zero empathy/sympathy for celebs and their passing. The only time I may be agrieved is with a selfish reaction of 'damn, they won't be able to play X anymore, and I liked that show/film whatever'. But no, I place public grieving for celebs I don't know from a hole in the ground in the same category as the chumps that grieve over the passing of some soap character or other. Just incomprehensible silliness. And don't get me started on deliberate tear-jerkers where cynical emotional manipulation is going on simply to grab cash from twerps who need to be told when they're supposed to feel sad and run to it like sheep to a slaughterhouse.
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It's like starting a fight at a funeral.
Ok, so it's a shock to hear the news and perhaps it is playing on your mind for a few hours, but .....