tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320824162277246225.post6237307063182783916..comments2023-06-03T05:42:58.358-07:00Comments on At the heart of the opinion: when the public grieve for dead celebritiesClairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07419086914404762176noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320824162277246225.post-58006542852576960572011-11-03T02:57:10.405-07:002011-11-03T02:57:10.405-07:00I don't know, I like to think it is the latter...I don't know, I like to think it is the latter. I think the UK is actually quite bad at grief, we don't seem to have mechanisms for it. Look at footage post July 7 bombings and it was mostly people stumbling around in quiet shock. Yet when disasters happen in other countries you see mass public displays of grief, wailing etc. I think it is cathartic and we should be less afraid of it. We British pride ourselves very much on dealing with things with dignity and stoicism, illness, death, recession. Maybe that's why the riots were such a shock, and maybe why they happened, pent up anger just waiting to be released.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320824162277246225.post-89344025515924477192011-11-03T02:47:50.075-07:002011-11-03T02:47:50.075-07:00I think people feel a need to be involved, to say ...I think people feel a need to be involved, to say they were there, to have a sense of self-importance. <br /><br />I don't understand it personally but I think it is sometimes even narcissistic, trying to turn an event onto oneself, making it about oneself.<br /><br />The outpouring of emotion of Diana's death and the fact it was encouraged and deemed acceptable by the pres seems to have left open the floodgates. Now everyone can be part of a major news event, even a local one. <br /><br />It is all very well to be sad about someone in the public eye dying. But this need to be a part of it for me is pathetic, and I mean that in the true sense of the word. <br /><br />I'm from the north of England and one of my schoolmates travelled down with the rest of her family to London to place flowers at the Buck House gates. Everyone was praising her, and saying what a great thing it was that she had done. I did the smile and nod thing, but inside I was thinking "Oh my God get a life." <br /><br />Sorry if all that sounds harsh, but this subject really gets me ranting :-)Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10514757286127622644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320824162277246225.post-38019255529651688902011-11-02T16:44:25.255-07:002011-11-02T16:44:25.255-07:00I think it is almost a fashion, to show grief for ...I think it is almost a fashion, to show grief for an unknown celebrity and it makes me uncomfortable in the same way that the expressions of sorrow for a victim of crime does. <br /><br />Yes, I feel sorry for the victims of murder, but I do wonder at the people who take flowers to lay at a lamppost or a doorstep to commemorate someone they did not know and had never heard of. <br /><br />Especially when they take small children to lay flowers, that is extremely strange.Lynn C Schreiberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15397301192767939627noreply@blogger.com