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Celebrity deaths that you actually gave a shit about...

I was butt hurt when Amy Winehouse died. I just related to all her music and I was a drunk when the black album came out. Loved her.
Robin Williams made me more curious than sad. His method was like wtf... choking out? You could pay a sniper with that kind of money and never see it coming. You could pay hookers to shoot you with dope all night til you don't wake up. WHY hanging? I don't get it and I never will.
Dude... James Gandolfini ... Loved him. :/ Not "true love" obviously but man I woulda loved to hang out with those people. I'm not a star fucker I just had a few butt hurts over a few celebs. James Avery ... bummed me out a little.
 
Heath Ledger

Princess Diana

Both times I was driving and heard it as breaking news.

Gave me goosebumps, a wtf moment and two days I'll never forget where I was and what I was doing.

As celebs, or royalty in one case,- I've felt they're untouchable, sure they passed in different ways, but if they're not safe or protected or loved enough or sought help, whattabout us? Maybe all this threads celeb deaths can somehow show us the lessons we need to learn.

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I didn't celebrate them in their life, but I will celebrate them dying. Hollow shells giving back their clay to the earth. Nah.. if I didn't know them personally or through a friend then 99% of the time I will give less than a shit.

The only time I've felt sadness for a celeb was learning about the life of Nikola Tesla. He actually made a real impact on the world and died alone. The modern notion of celebrities are people we're told to worship. Personally I find that grossly offensive.. if someone is a good soul they stand out and I will praise them for their works accordingly.
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He died at 86 when the life expectancy rate was about 65. He chose his work over relationships. Not all that sad.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
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He owned both.. ;)


The death of Matthew Stepanek was very sad, also Aaron Swartz.
 
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For both PSM and--to a much greater extent--Robin Williams, I was more infuriated than sad: Two tremendously talented and respected actors with families who threw it all down the shitter. You can at least say PSM was accidental, but Robin Williams hanging himself...I was in fact furious. If he had been some relatively anonymous millionaire in similar circumstances no one would have thought twice for calling him on the carpet for it, and the fact that he did so while universally admired left a very bad taste in my mouth. The people talking about how depression clouds your thinking don't convince me, not when millions of depressed people around the world struggling though desperate lives manage to squeak from birth to death.

The only two famous people whose deaths truly saddened me were Carl Sagan and Roger Ebert, both people whose work I'd followed for years and considered role models rather "celebs", per se.
 
James Gandolfini and Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Kurt Cobain

They all left young kids, too. Well, Gandolfini's son was around 14, but he was the one who found his dad. Sad, man.
 
Hardest celebrity death for me was definitely the death of Layne Staley. He was so talented and such a sweetheart
 
I'd say Michael Jackson, mostly because my cousin and I were mega into him when we were kids. He was a big childhood theme and to know he died kind of really hit home and reminded me of how impermanent life is.

I don't really worship celebs but they sort of tell time for me in a peripheral way because their images and voices weave in and out of the reality I perceive outside of me. When celebs from my childhood start dying I know that I'm getting older and should really take heed of what I'm doing here on this planet.

I feel the same way when I see a celeb that looks really old. It's kind of shocking. You take for granted sometimes that these icons are just human beings, prone to the same decay and temporal nature as the rest of us.
 
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