Paul Walker is dead

Inb4 somebody gets offended at you laughing about it.

 

I am offended, nah its a fitting way to go

 

Never heard of him, never saw the movies. It's all over the news.

I don't see how his death is special.

Some rich asshole crashed his expensive car = drama and mourning. Millions die every day - nobody gives a hoot.

 

This.

Of course, it is tragic that a human being has died before their time. However, the spectacle made around every celebrity's death makes me bitter towards any of this. Most of these people that make it into the news I never know personally, sometimes I've never even heard of them. Much more tragic things have happened (and are still happening) around the whole world.

 

I’ve never heard of him until he was mentioned here on the forum.
Anyway, this is what everyone was talking about today in class (including the teacher) after coming back from break.

:car: Supposedly the driver lost control and hit a tree. Also, the conspiracies have started.

 

I think it's something along the line of everybody feeling like they know a person through their entertainment work. Losing an entertainer feels to some people like losing a friend, even though that obviously only extends in one direction.

 

Meh the guy did a lot for chaity

 

Also, ignorance is bliss. I don't think most of us would really be all that cheerful of people if we fully understood all of the awful stuff in the world that all of us are pretty much individually powerless to affect.

 

Says who? i understand the worlds a shitty place but crying over it wont help will it?

 

I'm not saying we should cry over it, that's my point. Was directed at Komo's biting comment about how we made a big deal over this instead of acknowledging numerous other tragedies.

 

Well, somebody who we don't know dying is sadly not that noteworthy. I'm sure there are people out there who are sorry for both people involved, it's just that one of those deaths actually impacts some of us in a way.

 

Seems pretty ironic to me. That is all.

 

I wouldn't. Quite the opposite for me. Having lots of people show up for my funeral would be pretty flattering IMHO.

Now if some guy I hated showed up and started saying what great friends we were and whatnot, my hypothetical eavesdropping ghost wouldn't be too pleased.

 

This reminds me of something that happened when I went to middle school. There was this boy from my year group who had to use one of those motorized wheelchairs. One day - he passed away (the cause was related to his disease). I did not really know him and I don't remember ever having a proper conversation with him, as to me he was always just a colleague of one of my friend's. Obviously, I felt sympathy towards him and his parents, but I did not make any speeches or anything like that. What really pissed me off however, was when suddenly many people in my year group claimed to be his friends when most of them never actually knew him either... it was disgusting, as though they were using his death as an opportunity to get attention from others.

I personally did not attend that boy's funeral, nor did I sign a letter started by the school to his parents. At the time, I figured that it would not make much difference if a bunch of strangers signed a scrap of paper; their son had just died, so they were going to be taking it really badly anyway and the only people who could really comfort them were their own relatives, friends and people who they knew that their son was good friends with - not strangers, school staff, doctors or anyone else who had no real personal connection with them or their son.

 

Agree