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A 9 yr old child died today of swine flu .. equally important and far more tragic and saddening as far as i’m concerned
With Jackson, and others such as Jade, most people can’t help but to have some kind of emotional attachment, because of The Media, and their work.. They were brought and put into people’s lives. Like other stars, Jacksons life has been shared with us over the years, we hear about them, read about them, and like Pete pointed out, a Nine Year Old girl has died with The Swine Flu Disease. She had her whole life ahead of her, and then to be taken like that, it’s just so wrong! But, where’s the sympathy there?.. Can’t people, even those who are parents understand what her parents must be going through?.. She hasn’t been producing records, nor has she been in the media for years, therefore we can’t form an emotional attachment.
Maybe its me but i dont think i’d cry over the death of someone in the media no matter how big a fan i was.. I dont get it .. sad yeah but not tears
Ok thinking about it i remember a tear when i watched actual footage of troops landing on a beach in the S Pacific and just falling before they’d got even a few yds up the beach and i didnt know them… but that was truly tragic
Over the years I’ve often wondered about this public grief thing in which people indulge themselves.
I, like many others, find it really difficult if not impossible to get myself all worked up into a lather of wailing, howling and grieving over the death of someone I didn’t actually “know”.
I understand that some people really do cry, weep & wail for hours and light candles at their little shrines to the departed and display all the emotions associated with grieving for a lost loved one. But I also suspect that many don’t really do this stuff – they just say they do, because it is somehow expected of them to appear to publicly grieve – especially over a famous person that has died. The mass public hysteria over Princess Diana is a good example of this.
Maybe they are even driven by “peer pressure” to go along with all this ‘ersatz’ grieving. Just imagine the howls of outrage that would be directed at someone who dared to post on a social networking community of some sort or other, that they didn’t really give a stuff that a famous ‘icon’ had died.
Jeez, the’y probably have to change their user name or something equally drastic.
@forumhostpb wrote:
Over the years I’ve often wondered about this public grief thing in which people indulge themselves.
I, like many others, find it really difficult if not impossible to get myself all worked up into a lather of wailing, howling and grieving over the death of someone I didn’t actually “know”.
I understand that some people really do cry, weep & wail for hours and light candles at their little shrines to the departed and display all the emotions associated with grieving for a lost loved one. But I also suspect that many don’t really do this stuff – they just say they do, because it is somehow expected of them to appear to publicly grieve – especially over a famous person that has died. The mass public hysteria over Princess Diana is a good example of this.
Maybe they are even driven by “peer pressure” to go along with all this ‘ersatz’ grieving. Just imagine the howls of outrage that would be directed at someone who dared to post on a social networking community of some sort or other, that they didn’t really give a stuff that a famous ‘icon’ had died.
Jeez, the’y probably have to change their user name or something equally drastic.
Howl away, I don’t really give a stuff, not like he was family.
@forumhostpb wrote:
Jeez, the’y probably have to change their user name or something equally drastic.
Nope, I refuse to change my name again! [-(
Last night myself and another chatter were accused of being disrespectful of the dead because we dared to not join in. The other chatter said that she didn’t like his music when he was alive, she’s not going to like it any more now he’s dead and it’s being rammed down her throat. My comment was that I liked his music but I didn’t think his death warranted the amount of attention that it’s getting. Nothing contentious from either of us, simply expressing our opinions, but suddenly there are threatening pm’s from people I’ve never spoken to in my years of chatting here. After 5 minutes I had to block pm’s.
For heavens sake people, get a sense of balance and perspective, a good singer and showman has died but it’s not the end of the world as we know it. Someone expressing an alternative opinion to yours is NOT disrespecting the dead – if you want to see that in action, then you should see some of the “jokes” doing the rounds by text.
On Sunday I was at the local Race for Life, several of my group were walking in memory of a dear friend who died last November at 48 leaving 2 young children behind. All around us were people with signs on their backs saying who they were running for. There were pictures of children who had died of cancer, and children (the youngest was 6) who were walking in memory of their mothers. There were people with 6 or 7 names on their signs, all family members. Now THAT is tragic.
The world is a crazy place….. :-
(wonders….what could be equally as drastic as changing your user name? :shock: :lol: )
I so agree with what your saying Jen.
At the moment it seems you can’t listen to the radio without every other song played being a Michael Jackson hit, or not. Getting a little sick of it to be honest.
As for you being dis-respectful, just the regular morons I expect talking out their arses again :wink:
I think, Jen_Jen, that you have very successfully proved the point that I was (badly) trying to make. The peer pressure to “mourn” or “grieve” for so-called celebs when they have snuffed it is pretty intense.
Anyway I haven’t had sufficient abusive PMs as yet so here goes for some more:
I think that poofy little paedophile Jackson’s music is total and utter crap!!! If he didn’t abuse himself daily with enough drugs to stun a horse, he would be as much use on stage as a chocolate fireguard.
ooooooh now you’re gonna get it (pulls up a chair, grabs the popcorn and gets ready to watch)
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