Yet most people forget about our soldiers that are away from their families risking their lives & getting killed, you don't see the kind od media coverage like MJ is getting.........it's sad!

So true. Or policeman or fireman, or school teachers, or people working the nightshift at a convienence store to keep their families off welfare.

What is obscene to me is the millions of dollars of debt that will be passed on to the people who actually work for a living by the "Jackson empire".

why should we care about celebrities? do they mourn for us when we die? we put these people on pedestals and treat them like they are special beings or gods when in fact they're just other people. we should care about the people who directly affect our lives.
MJ and FF and EM haven't done anything noteworthy in years. i don't see what the big fuss is about. FF was battling cancer for many years at least her suffering is over now. MJ has had to fight the paparazzi and the public eye for decades at least his battle is now over. as for EM, he doesn't even get a second thought in my mind other than now who's going to bring me my publisher's clearing house check.
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I don't think it matters if they mourn for us. I think it is fairly common to say, hey did you hear about so-and-so. The fact is we are interested in them/news about them else there wouldn't be a gazillion threads out here on this topic. The point of this one was just how one overshadows another.

my point is that it shouldn't matter if one overshadows another. it's not overly important that someone who's had more attention (both positive and negative) than they deserve has passed on. the problem is that we as a people place too much importance on these celebrities.

and the only reason one overshadows another is because we experience the world in a right now time line. one thing happens after another and the most recent is the one that people focus on.
when 911 happened it was the big thing. when the war on terror started it was the big thing. now that korea has nukes, it's the big thing. the most recent events get the attention even if they don't necessarily deserve it.


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It is probably the the fact that celebrities tend to act as datelines in our own lives and make us think about our own mortality.

Ed is my father's age or there abouts. Someone who I think lost his home and probably needed the checks he passed out as desperately as those who also hope for them.

Farrah a little older than myself. A parent of an addicted child and a cancer fatality I am sure she has many people who identify with her.

Michael the perfect example of someone who spent most of his life and assests, including some you and I will get to pay for, trying to mold himself into what he mistakenly thought would get him the attention/approval he couldn't get from the people he wanted but every other person who bought into the hype who died before his time for the self abuse and maybe a disability that contributed to his self mutilation.

While most of us would not want to identify with the pain celebrities suffer that they do have our miseries inspite of their fame feeds the curiosity. Maybe it is the small comfort that in all their beauty and money even they don't escape human frailities of life.

As a vet, I agree.

It is usally the one who has had the most controversy, that people talk about the most. Farrah's personality has been quiet for some time, she was sitting back having a normal family life. Then you have MJ who always seemed to get caught up in the limelight, and then his incident happened so quickly, that it just threw people for a loop. Poor Farrah has been sick for a while, and I think more people expected that to come when it did.