To think the haste that some posters show to create a thread regarding the death of a celebrity is distasteful?

I've just read again and seen we're talking about slightly different things. I agree though but my main issue is how many posters create threads talking about one death (3 or more "Liam Payne has died" for example when they could simply search and see there's already a thread to add to).

It makes me wish mnhq can merge threads talking about the same thing into one - with the earliest one as the main OP/thread, like they do on another site. It would stop all the desperate wannabe-OPs from bothering with their own thread about someone's death.

@Seventeenth17
Oh how i rushed in here! I was going to make a thread on exactly this topic this morning but just cba to create one. I've hidden about 4 to 6 Liam Payne threads since yesterday or today - all saying the same thing.

This happens all the time - someone dies and everyone and their dog wants to create their own thread to be the OP of a famous person's death thread. They obviously don't care to search first because they'd clearly see that a thread has already been created, and contribute to it.

It's the attention-seeking "grief vultures" I think. They love a good front seat hand wringing over the news of the death of someone they don't know.

All this performative grief business for someone you have never met started when Diana died.

For one thing is a sad story when celebrities and other well known faces (politicians etc) die.

Hate it when people respond to comments with "who?". If you have never heard of the person, don't waste your energy with your ignorance.

I also think it's disgusting that newspapers print it do quick. He has a 7 year old. How was Cheryl supposed to handle telling him that knowing it would be snowballing. No wonder Queen Elizabeth took William and Harry to Scotland and hid them from the world when their mum died. I can't begin to imagine what Liam's family are going through

Most of them are grief vampires.

People are so morbid aren't they. Gross.

I usually see it on MN before I get the notification from a news site. It doesn't bother me though.

Mmmmmmmmm, it's the posters who, when commenting on a celebrity death, or misfortune, always have to post a disclaimer first about whether they like them or not, that annoy me.

I mean, who cares. It was especially annoying in the Trump getting shot threads. Just say you are shocked, if you have to, it doesn't need any more, you're not going to look bad. Jeez.

Who decides what a respectful amount of time should be before starting a thread?
If it's in SM it's on here. That's just how it is.

Ha! Probably wasn't meant in jest but this made me laugh.

I'm not sure if this is place for it, but I can't think of anywhere better, so in a somewhat realted moan:

I always hate it when the news say someone has "broken their silence" on something like this. I've just seen a headline "Liam Payne's 'devastated' family break silence" What do you mean break silence? It's litteraly not even been 12 hours and they don't owe anyone a comment.

I'm sure soon there will be reports that Harry Styles has "broken his slience" as his first reaction wasn't to jump straight on twitter when he found out!

Of all the awful things about Mumsnet - posters bullying one another, kicking them when they're down, making them feel bad, and so on - this is probably the least bad thing. It's human nature to want to chat about shocking things and honestly this is a forum for chatting about things. YABU.

This! When Alex Salmond died a few days ago, and the news was breaking on BBC News (they didn't even have much details yet) I went on to his Wikipedia page to check his age. Someone had already updated his date of death. I remember thinking jeez, I bet they raced to Wikipedia to be the first to update - why??

Not keen on the term 'sleb death' which seems utterly disrespectful to me.,

The celebrities who try and use the death for personal publicity are also distasteful.

I like to hope that the people who play competitive grieving are doing it because they don’t have family and friends to discuss their memories of the celebrity with but sadly I think many like to be the one to break that kind of news.

Yes I was just thinking along those lines

Yes it’s weird,these posters are the ones who would sit knitting at the foot of the guillotine.

Yeah the typo in the title annoyed me too.

@Funkyslippers I wonder if there's a widespread need to be seen to be honouring the dead at any (casual) opportunity? Maybe it's a kind of narcissism.

@Seventeenth17

I couldn't agree more - it's SO distasteful!

If a famous person has died, you can bet your bottom dollar that my brother will be the first to tell me, followed up soon after by a particular Facebook friend posting a link saying how tragic it is, no matter who the celebrity is. I find it a bit weird personally

Yes it astonished me how rapidly people were rushing to create posts yesterday.

I understand wishing to talk about it but I don't understand the race to be the one who shares the news.

Same with the people who rush to share these things on Facebook. I think a little less of them and I can't even quite put my finger on why. It just seems a weird first instinct to want to be the one to break the news.

I agree with this. It's news. Which we are allowed to discuss.