The death of which famous person upset you most?

bbam wrote: »

Why would the death of anyone famous upset people.
Really. They're not family or even a friend.

I've seen people get upset at the death of Mandella or Michael Jackson, I think WTF, you never met this person, they never knew you existed, they're just people you've heard off. It makes me think these people have no lives of their own.
Actually I think this of people who follow the whole celeb culture. Get a life of your own and stop living through these public idiots.

In writing this I am pretty much rewriting my previous post on here but maybe I can express myself better this time:

Just because you don't know someone doesn't mean that they can't have had a major impact on your life. As someone who grew up in Southern Africa (Botswana to be exact) Mandela had a major impact in my life. He was a national hero and someone that I always followed and admired. His achievements created a new life for many and they worshipped him for it. He was considered to be a grandfather figure for Africans so when he died it was as if their own grandfather had died.

The circumstances of a death can also matter. The sudden death of Ayrton Senna impacted on many because it was just so unexpected and violent too. Or in my case the death of Adam Yauch, who I never knew much of in life, really upset me because he died of the same cancer that I had previously had. It was a rare one so I had never heard of someone dying of it before.

Yes celebrity culture can be ridiculous, following people's every move because you can, but it doesn't mean that some people can't matter to you for whatever personal reason that you may have (unless you're stalking them, then it's creepy) and it doesn't mean that a people are not allowed to be upset over a person's death.