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Originally Posted by maleficent
uber cynical mode here:
She's getting attention because she was married to a celebrity... There are people who take care of their loved ones every single day, and 'fight the good fight' every single day... while working full time jobs because they don't have millions in the bank... Good people die every single day... they don't get front page news on CNN when they do die... I'm sure her family is sad that she's dead... and I'm sure her family is proud of her accomplishments... but her do-gooding doesn't make her any better or any more deserving of sympathy than anyone else who died...
I'd much rather read about that unknown guy down the street that worked his butt off to provide for his family... than a celebrity.
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Exactly maleficent, exactly.
I'm mostly immune to the cult of celebrity, in fact I don't understand it beyond an intellectual level. How people get so wrapped up in the lives of others who don't know them personally I'll never know. Are their lives so devoid of interest that they need to live vicariously through others, or is it just a search for a common link with their fellow man in that they can gossip about the same people. I don’t' know your friends, you don’t' know my friends but we can both be sad/mad/happy for about someone who died that didn’t' know us but we read about in People(tm).
On 9/11 when people were all talking about what CEO or what author died, it annoyed me that no one was asking who were the people who jumped hand in hand to their deaths.