To be creeped out by people who make a huge deal out of celebrity deaths?

I hope that they were denied sick leave and made to take annual leave. Absolutely pathetic.

I remember when Diana died I went to Florida for two weeks just after the funeral. Got back and one of my colleagues who had been on holiday at the time had come back from annual leave, and the first thing she said was “it’s just so terrible what’s happened isn’t it.” I genuinely thought something awful had happened, either in her life or to someone at work so I asked what she meant, and she said “you know, with Diana dying.”

I think it was on here where someone told of how they were on an underground train just after Diana died, and there was a woman lying on the floor literally howling over the death of Diana.

These people should be embarrassed.

I think it’s strange to be that upset when a celebrity dies.

Bowie is the one that springs to mind. I couldn’t understand why anyone would get so upset about someone they don’t know. Teenagers, I get, but grown adults…. It’s weird

I had a boss years ago who took several days off work to grieve when Jon Bon Jovi got married. Her fiancé also apparently was devastated (I could not get my head around that).

Utterly ridiculous, performative drama seeking.

Some artists are part of your life. Their music or acting or whatever means a lot to you. I still get upset that Prince is no longer with us as I have been a huge fan of his music for decades. If you can't understand that fair enough, but don't dismiss other people's feelings.

I find the ones who go on and on and on to everyone about how upset they are to be annoyingly attention seeking.

I agree. I’ve thought it sad when a celebrity has died, but I can’t imagine me crying over anyone famous dying.

I was very upset when David Bowie died but I didn't make it performative. I am going to extremely sad when mick jagger eventually leaves us. Maybe these performative grievers are the same people who live their relationships on social media and post tributes to dead family members for years after the loss.

I always think they must be quite shallow and struggle to connect with real emotions and relationships. As a PP pointed out, it is the same phenomena as those who obsess about the minutaie of a famous person's life. Just go on to the Royal Family board to witness the thinking of the vapid and obsessed. It is quite the window into some people's strange wee worlds.

I felt really sorry for Amy Winehouse’s neighbours. I understand that the ghouls holding vigils were a real nuisance.

Completely agree..but then when I see threads on here sometimes with intense speculation about some aspect of a celeb's life with posters arguing the toss about their actions, feelings, thoughts like they could possibly have the vaguest clue about any of it, I do think it's to be expected. I don't know why people do it but i suppose it makes sense that if you're that invested in them you'd feel the death was actually relevant to you in sone way. I get an intellectual, what a shame response...Terry Pratchett is a good example, but it's not something I would cry over or be "devastated" by.

I agree with you OP. Grief Vampires prone to overdramatics and hysteria.

It depends on what that person meant to you. I was really sad about Angie Stone’s recent death as her music was a big part of my childhood and I’ve always wanted to see her perform. Chadwick Boseman’s death brought me to actual tears because watching what he’d done with Black Panther and seeing so many black boys have such a great superhero to look up to was amazing, so to realise he’d done all that while being so unwell and knowing he was going to die was touching.

On the other hand, I didn’t have much of a reaction when Prince died (beyond “that’s sad”) because I have no emotional ties to his work.

Imknow people like this

is this a post Diana phenomenon?

I think It all comes down to emotional connections and the way our brains form attachments. People, places, landmarks, and even celebrities become symbols of personal memories and experiences, A singer or movie star who was a near constant during a period of our lives, especially during our teenage years can become part of our identities associated with that time.It is similar to the way we mourn a building or tree being torn down that was a constant in our lives. Shared cultural experiences and nostalgia are powerful emotions. I don't think what we mourn is our relationship with that person, but what they represented in our story, and that's a very individual thing. Doesn't mean you have to rend your clothes and throw ashes on yourself and take 40 days off, but some tears can be normal.

I feel a bit sad when they die terry pratchett was one I couldn't face reading his last book in case I was disappointed (I was a little especially reading the one scene which he had said he wanted to work more on) reading his books now it feels like so much unfinished work

The Queen was the only one to "upset" me she had been around my entire life basically saw her every day on money stamps tv etc seeing a "Charlie face note" isn't the same at all!

And people leaving apples outside Apple shops when Steve Jobs died.

Jesus wept 😂

It makes me cringe....it was unbearable when Amy Winehouse died and people were leaving packets of fag's and bottles of vodka outside her house.. 🤢
Just why?!
A lot of it seems very performative, like who can be the saddest.
I can't listen to candle in the wind because I'd never stop cringing.

I think it’s ok to feel sad.

I’m friends on FB with someone who writes a mini obituary for almost any famous person who died - musician / writer / politician etc.
It’s mostly about how much they meant to her. I do find that a bit weird.

I was shocked when Princess Diana died. I liked her, and thought that she brought a breath of fresh air to the British Monarchy. I loved Meatloaf's over-the-top performance and identified with his motorbike identity. The murders of John Lennon and President Kennedy were utterly shocking. I felt sad about all of them. I didn't cry or miss work , though.

Some people don't have love or close relationships in their life, and identify with a particular high profile person, or they have grown up in parallel with that celebrity or they love their music, or their acting. Or they just have some significant association or connection with them eg a celeb released a record when the person split up with their partner and the music felt poignant at that time.

I don't do the celeb thing but I can empathise with the reasons why someone might be incredibly sad at the death of a celeb and get taken over by the emotion of their death being announced on the front pages.

I agree OP, I think its weird and childish and attention seeking.

I was also really sad when David Bowie died, I felt he had been a constant influence on my life. But it would be ridiculous of me to pretend I had a personal relationship with him or that he had any direct impact on my life.

😳

That was collective hysterical madness.
People demanding the Queen break protocol, re-write history because they were 'devastated'.
Ridiculous state of affairs

We still talk about the time at work when someone called in sick because Michael Jackson died. They couldn’t face coming to work apparently.