{"id":183,"date":"2012-02-15T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/15\/obsessed-with-celebrity-loss\/"},"modified":"2014-11-25T10:23:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T16:23:31","slug":"obsessed-with-celebrity-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/15\/obsessed-with-celebrity-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsessed with celebrity loss"},"content":{"rendered":"
Twenty four seven coverage every time a celebrity dies is just so amazing.  What is it that attracts us to other peoples experience in loss?  What about sharing in their grief?  As I been watching and for the most part, unwillingly watch the drama of the Whitney Huston coverage, I began to ponder what this means to me and others.<\/span>

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Am I experiencing loss?  I don’t believe so or at least not at the death of Whitney.  Well, a loss of watching what I want to, without being hit with all the tributes, the speculations, the ‘over-coverage’ of her, yes, young-untimely death.  Don’t get me wrong, having someone die is a loss and I pray that the family is able to deal with their loss.  How are others feeling and how profound is their loss? Celebrity loss has not really been something that I really take into me at this point.  Not saying someone out there will not hit me but just not yet.  I did a search of famous people who died in 2011.  I had to do the search because off the top of my head, I could not recall any.  Given enough time, some of these I would have and should have recalled.  Some of these famous people were not celebrities but people who while living had a significant impact upon us all while living and upon their death there was and is a significant impact.<\/span>

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 Here is a list of only a few and in no particular order:<\/span>

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    Kim Jon-il<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

V\u00e1clav Havel<\/a>
Harry Morgan<\/a>
Joe Frazier<\/a>
Andy Rooney<\/a>
Steve Jobs<\/a>
Andy Whitfield<\/a>
Bubba Smith<\/a>
Betty Ford<\/a>
Jack Kevorkian<\/a>
Anne Francis<\/a>
Jack LaLanne<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

The list can go on and on.  This is what one web site had for a list but who is famous and who is not, that is another debate.  Just like the loss of one of these people may cause significant grief for some while for others the loss does not seem to invoke anything at all.<\/p>\n

Did you know all these people I listed?  Some of them?  Any of their deaths significant to you?
I obtained the list from www.ranker.com<\/a>.  Although the Whitney Huston death has not had a significant impact on me personally at her loss as a famous person or a celebrity, her death is a loss and each of us experience the loss in our own ways.<\/p>\n


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Twenty four seven coverage every time a celebrity dies is just so amazing.  What is it that attracts us to other peoples experience in loss?  What about sharing in their grief?  As I been watching and for the most part, unwillingly watch the drama of the Whitney Huston coverage, I began to ponder what this means to me and … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-183","6":"format-standard","7":"category-lossandgrief","8":"category-uncategorized"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2m6h5-2X","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":178,"url":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/06\/superbowl-win-loss\/","url_meta":{"origin":183,"position":0},"title":"Superbowl Win….Loss","author":"Douglas Dill","date":"February 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Every year someone wins and someone looses. \u00a0Some people make money, some loose. \u00a0People get carried away with their\u00a0celebration\u00a0and other carried away with the grief over the loss. \u00a0Check out this article about those that were unhappy after the loss. \u00a0Their grief turned into anger and then arrest by the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Loss and Grief"","block_context":{"text":"Loss and Grief","link":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/category\/lossandgrief\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a57.foxnews.com\/static\/managed\/img\/Sports\/396\/223\/Super20128.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":182,"url":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/09\/you-must-show-griefloss-in-the-proper-way\/","url_meta":{"origin":183,"position":1},"title":"You must show grief\/loss in the proper way!","author":"Douglas Dill","date":"February 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"First, no no no and no, I do not believe what I am saying in the title. \u00a0There may be some more\u00a0appropriate\u00a0ways than others but we all grieve in our own ways. \u00a0However I was really taken aback when I saw an article at Yahoo Sports today. \u00a0We have a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Loss and Grief"","block_context":{"text":"Loss and Grief","link":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/category\/lossandgrief\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":188,"url":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/29\/loss-of-a-monkey\/","url_meta":{"origin":183,"position":2},"title":"Loss of a Monkey","author":"Douglas Dill","date":"February 29, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"At this point I suspect most of you have heard of the passing, and very unexpected passing of Davy Jones, one of the members of a 60's group called the Monkeys. \u00a0I remember growing up and watching their show on TV, or at least some of the re-runs I for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Loss and Grief"","block_context":{"text":"Loss and Grief","link":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/category\/lossandgrief\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billboard.com\/photos\/stylus\/1713869-davy-jones-the-monkees-dead-617-409.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":68,"url":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/24\/to-fear-death-vs-to-fear-dying\/","url_meta":{"origin":183,"position":3},"title":"To Fear Death vs To Fear Dying","author":"Douglas Dill","date":"February 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I have posted this to both of my blogs this time. 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