Who is your ‘diana’

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Just reading the Diana thread

Who is your celebrity that you will mourn..

Mine is Meat Loaf, Paul Weller and Bob Dylan

I will genuinely cry when they die.

Reading these threads often makes me wonder if I am emotionally broken. There isn't a single celebrity I would cry for. I don't always cry when people I actually know pass away.

I tend to cry at funerals watching other people's grief, not because of my own.

Victoria Wood in 2016.
I wept.
I then understood why my DM cried when Adam Faith died - it is losing the person who provided the soundtrack to your teenage years. My soundtrack was Victoria Wood tv shows, which I'd followed since the early 80s. I really felt a bit of joy leave my life.

Judi Dench, because she excels at acting, has a cheeky sense of humour, seems a nice person, and plants trees! Love her.

The Queen dying will be somewhere I expect every one of us will remember what we were doing when we heard. There's a difference I feel between someone living a long life whose work you have loved or appreciated, when they die, and someone who dies suddenly or at a young age.

Two have shocked and upset me the most
Stuart Adamson, lead singer of Big Country, because he was only 43 and did not have the help for his mental ill-health that perhaps nowadays he could reach out and have.
Kirsty MacColl, not only because of her age and manner of her death, but because we had met only 18 months before.

David Attenborough, David Jason, musically Stevie Wonder and Debbie Harry.

I sobbed my heart out when Freddie Mercury died, I loved him.

Queen

Princess Di and David Bowie for me.

Bill Nighy

I cannot mourn for anyone that I do not know well; feel that they are a loss to society, yes, empathise with their families, definitely - but get upset for myself absolutely not. I just don't understand it but often feel pretty emotionless compared to how many other people seem to be.

I cried when Terry Pratchett died (but I was pregnant and hormonal at the time).

I'm still sad about Sue Townsend.

David Attenborough
Maggie Smith
Judy Dench

Any of Duran Duran, Tom Hanks, Debbie Harry, any of Green Day.

Bowie, Prince and George Michael’s deaths all upset me.

Chester Bennington dying the way he did hit me quite hard.

Ozzy Osbourne will get me.

No one. Mourning people you never met is creepy.

I sob every time someone from my parents' generation dies, as it hits me each time how invincible you thought you were as a child, but all of a sudden the constants in life start dying. Eg Terry Wogan

Gregory do you not feel even a bit sad when someone, who has touched your life in some way even though you have never met them, dies?

Sometimes for me there is sadness because it brings back memories of my parents eg my DF would quote things from Victoria Wood shows

I did shed a tear for Robin Williams and Victoria Wood, but I can't think of anyone I'd full-on mourn.

David attenborough
Paul o Grady
The Queen

I think you tend to feel great sadness when someone who seemed to be part of your life when you were young, dies.

Jilly Cooper. Her books helped me escape some really tough times throughout my teenage/early adult years.

I cried when Victoria Wood died, which took me completely by surprise. I am usually unaffected by celebrity deaths.
I think when the Queen dies it will affect me. I was born in the last few days of George VI's reign, so I have been alive for the whole of her reign.

The celebrities I have cried for were 1) Robin Williams - Aladdin is my most favourite Disney film, mainly because of him as the Genie. He was Mork too which i loved.
2) Terry Pratchett - I enjoy his work, but DH loved them, and my upset was because I knew he would be upset too. 3) Stephen Gately - This was proper tears time. I always liked Boyzone, and had seen them a few months before he died. He was so good, and seemed at ease. I also remember him coming out and he was only a little bit older than me. It was such a shock when i read he died. Add to that, that my mum had died a few months earlier. 4) Caroline Aherne - personal crap going on combined with wonderful memories of Mrs merton and the Royles.

I was very saddened and shocked by the deaths of Rik Mayall, Alan Rickman, Victoria Wood and George Michael.

I think that for me it's more about what the person represents - happy/happier times, carefree youth, some sort of shared life experience, similar age etc.
I was devastated when Elvis Presley died. I loved his music and my biggest ambition as a teenager was to save up to see him perform live. When he died, I felt as though a big part of my future had been ripped away. Of course, with the benefit of hindsight (and age), I realise that I had lost only one small event and others have overtaken that in the 'significant life event ' stakes.
I was sad when David Bowie , Victoria Wood and Terry Wogan died - because in different ways they had contributed to happy moments in my life and I was sad when Diana died, we were similar ages and I had two ds's, a little younger than hers, so my sadness was as much about her missing out on them growing up, marrying, having their own children.
Similarly, I was dreadfully affected when James Bulger died. My ds1 was almost the same age and even now, I look at him and feel such sadness that his family never had the same chances to see their child grow and bloom into a wonderful adult.

I need to add Jimmy Carter. Really principled lovely man. Kind of think of him as my us equivalent to David Attenborough. Wish I knew more about Asian and African equivalents but I don’t think I do.