Sorry If I'm digging up old news but "Celebrity" status just pisses me off

I was just checking out one my old favourite blog sites that I haven't been to in a while because it became shyte and came accross something on Katy French and one of the comments just pissed me off for some reason. Some guy complained about the attention she was getting after someone commented that they cried when they heard about her death and was called below human nearly when the author of the blog said he couldn't "imagine the level of darkness you exist in." to the guy. Then another guy pipes in and asks what the complainer would be saying if she had died in a climbing accident. This guy even used the sentence "it betrays an ambivalence and an anger than is not worth understanding." which I think is just a load of boolocks. This series of four comments somehow hit a nerve with me and before I knew it I had written this

"She did not die in a climbing accident she died from taking drugs (I know it's they're not fully sure yet). She does not deserve the praise she has gotten. She was simply good looking that's all. Definitely not a role model for Irish girls. It's a very bad indication of the quality of Ireland and especially Ireland's media that she has been put up on such a high pedastle. People deserve to be honoured for what they actually did when they die. They should not be built up to something they are not. Who would have called her a role model for young Irish girls before she died. I'd say she might have herself but only if it got her name in the paper. Did the two young guys in waterford get any praise in the papers or did they get 11 pages devoted to them in any paper. I suppose people will say "What did they do to deserve it?" or who knew them. Why is that important? Why does she deserve 11 pages? What has she done? Would anyone know her only for the fact that she looked good on camera? The responses I have seen before have been along the lines of "But she has done all that work for charity!". Did she then tell the papers all about this work she was doing for charity. All models and famous people do work for charities because their PR people tell them to because it makes them look good. Sorry I'll change what I said above. She was a media whore first and then a good looking girl. That's it. I suppose you could call her a drug adict as well or am I not allowed say that because she is dead? This was the opinion I had of the girl before she died. Why should I change it because she is dead? To compare it to someone else who is actually famous but not having a good time in the media today, what would people say if Britney Spears died today from the same kind of incident? Would everyone say how great she was and all nice things about her? Would she deserve them? Would a crazy "trailer-trash" pop-star deserve praise just because she is dead? I don't think so. Do you?"

I know this is very old news but I am getting sick of the way celebrities and "famous" people are looked at these days. What have they done that they deserve to be seen as better than you or me. I know the young girl died and all that but I just can't see where all the fuss came from. People younger than her die every day in much more tragic surcumstances! Do they get 11 pages written about them in their local paper by Jimbo Kelly bacuase he knew her and thought she was great. No.
I know people talk about the great things people have done when they died but I think it is an insult to them that the things they have done be exagerated or given greater significance than they deserve. When my Grandfather died I was told a story by a man he was in the army with. He told me that my grandfather had been told by his superior to discipline a soldier who had not really done anything wrong and was only being disciplined because the superior officer and the soldier didn't get on and he wanted make his life hell. My grandfather refused to do this and as a result was detained in the brig himself for the weekend as punishment. He knew this would happen to him but he did it anyway. I thought this to be a very noble thing to do. The man told me this wasn't the end of the story. He went on to tell me that my grandmother who was then only my grandfather girlfriend was to travel over from Ireland to England that weekend to see my Grandfather. As a result of not punishing this man my Grandfather knew he would not get to see my Grandmother who he had not seen for months. The old man expressed how important and rare visits for my Grandmother were to my Grandfather at the time as they were not rich. My Grandfather never told me this story but my Grandmother confirmed this story for me when I asked. She also said she wasn't to happy about it at the time.
I was amazed at this and thought it a great sacrifice my Grandfather made to stand up for what he believed in. Was this story ever told in the media? Was he ever called a role model for this or did he ever tell his Grandchildren this story to show his grandkids what a great man he was. No. I know it may seem ironic for me to tell this story after what I have said and I may be ruining my point by telling it. What I have been trying to say over the course of this "essay" (Thanks for reading if you have gotten this far) is that celebrities are not more important than you or me. They should not get the coverage they recieve unless it is the celebrity section (and TV3 news should not it put a models death as their main story) and that I think it was a sad indication of our country today that this young girl's (she may have been the most wonderful girl ever for all I know) life and death was given so much attention simply because her picture was used for advertising purposes.
I'd like to hear what people think about this. Am I alone in thinking this or what?