How badly do celebrity deaths affect you?

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A casual friend (former colleague) has been in a real state about a celebrity death. She has posted on FB again today, several weeks on, about how she can’t handle it and when will the tears stop coming etc. Another of her friends has replied saying she doesn’t think she’ll ever get over it 🙄

It was a sad and sudden death, but seriously? This wasn’t a relative or friend - it was someone she’s seen on TV. I do understand there is a sense of grief, but weeks of tears and sorrowful social media posts just seems so OTT.

I can think of one celebrity death I was really gutted about, but the idea that I would be in bits about it weeks later to the point that I had to get mawkish about it online seems ridiculous. AIBU for thinking that kind of grief should be reserved for someone you’ve at least met?

Dont know if your genuine prawn or taking the piss but she was cremated

@Sarahlou63 have you seen the documentary Senna ? It was made by the same filmmaker as the Amy movie & it’s fantastic. Remember my dad crying when he died :(

I was distraught when Marc Bolan died but to be fair, I was very, very young.

Shed a small tear for Johnny Cash and David Bowie. Their music has been with me all my life. I’ve also felt a little sad at other celebrity passings: Rick Mayall, Christopher Lee for example, but I didn’t know them at all and it doesn’t affect me deeply. Am not looking forward to the day we lose Tom Baker though.

I was thinking about this the other day- I wonder whether the crying/emotional response is something we grow out of as we become older and a little more desensitised to death? I always feel sad when people who’s work touched me in some ways die, but not the point of crying. But when I told my son last week that Cameron Boyce had died he sobbed for an hour- I had to let him sleep in my bed

And, if we're staying with the MNetters we've loved and lost, I remember EarthMotherImNot. A wonderful woman who I often think of.

@GabsAlot am dead serious & yes you’re right she was cremated but the family still put a headstone in a north London cemetary (not sure which one). It was contentious because the most recent boyfriend’s name is on it & they weren’t together for long. Part of her dad rewriting history etc....

I would still like to visit it.

@RumpoleoftheBaileys oh yes...Brittany Murphy & husband was tragic & also affected by that. I kind of feel like she may have had her own Weinstein type story...she had a rough time in Hollywood. Rip brittany xo

I was surprised at how sad I was by Aviici's death. I did cry for a few days on and off and I listened to his music more often.

I think it is because of how he died and it just felt like such a shame and waste of talent and soul destroying for his family.

I am very occassionally teary over Tupac, even though I was very young when he died. His music really speaks to me and the sheer volume of what he wrote before he died so young always makes me sad that he had so much more to share.

Patrick Swayze.. such a waste.. feel really sad even now..

They don't affect me. It think a lot of it is ridiculous. They have a minute's silence or clapping every week at football matches. Bloody Dianna started it.

Spamming this thread but Mac Miller’s death shook me recently. Poor bloke, writes album dedicated to ariana grande, gets dumped, goes off rails on bender due to her quick engagement & died heartbroken. I am not blaming Grande, he wasn’t her responsibility. But knowing someone died heartbroken & didn’t get over a breakup is just so sad to me. He was so talented & had much more music to give the world. I hope his massive amounts of unreleased music will be heard one day.

I agree with you op.
Celebs are just how the media portrays them ,not people we personally know.
I am sad for the poor kid who jumped in front of the train, and other young folk who die ,but not celebs, who are people I don't know .

Not much, really. Was a bit sad about David Bowie, will also be sad about Stephen King as he seems like a great guy and I enjoy him books tremendously.

I love how Swayze smoked until the end. One of his last interviews he says he still smokes. What is the point in giving up once you have pancreatic cancer ? None. I like that he did what he enjoyed until the end. He seemed like a lovely man. It was not a shock when he died personally as he was so obviously unwell but tragic nonetheless.

*his books

I can't think of any celebrity whose death would upset me.

However, I was profoundly affected by the death of a celebrity when I was 13. He was the first person I fell in love with: of course, I know that it wasn't real love because I didn't know him, but to my young and innocent self it felt real at the time. When he died, I felt that my life had no meaning and wasn't worth living any more. I became very depressed and cried all the time.
Even now, I still think about him sometimes and remember his birthday and the anniversary of his death, even though he's been dead for almost 48 years.

I was upset when Prince died, not just because he was an amazing talent, but also because of how he died. That someone who was so adored by his fans, and who was so we'll respected and admired in the music industry should die alone and unmissed for hours was so horrible. I hope he knew how much he meant to people. I didn't cry though.

If Stephen King, or Jim Kerr from Simple Minds dies then I will be incredibly sad as those guys really got me through some very tough times.

The daftest celeb death I got upset about was John Candy..he was in his prime and I loved his work.

@TeachesOfPeaches I also felt very sad when peaches geldof died.

I followed her on Instagram and because she didnt have millions of followers I kind of felt like i "knew" her and felt quite sick to my stomach, almost like a heavyness when i heard she had died. She was so young.

Pancreatic cancer frightens the life out of me... I know Patrick smoked , but even so.. makes me sad. A talent gone

What was sad about peaches is that she died the exact same way her mother did. There were rife online rumours about Peaches' drug use for a number of years.

Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbie Brown strangely died in a bathtub exactly like her mother. So weird and tragic.

Goodbye Rosie, I served Jim Kerr and his then girlfriend in a shop worked in years ago, he was lovely.

@MyFokMarelize Johnny clegg 😢 - that's very sad. Grew up listening to his music as we had friends from Kenya

Billy connelly is the one that is going to get me I think, although I was very upset about George Michael.

The only celebrity death that hit me hard enough to cry was Robin Williams.

I cried because he was a staple of my childhood, a man tormented with manic depression but still brought laughter into so many homes. Others have made me feel a bit sad at times, but none have affected me as much.