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Peaches Geldoff dead
Peaches Geldoff dead
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Diddy, read my post. Not everyone is like that. My family means everything to me.
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diddy quite a few of us here have every bit as much humanity as your good self.
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IVE READ YOUR POST
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IVE NOT GOT MUCH HUMANITY IM SELFISH LIKE THE REST OF YOU ,I JUST LOOK AFTER MYSELF AND MY FAMILY ,YOUVE GOT HUMANIYR WHEN YOU TRY TO LOOK AFTER EVERYONE ,
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cant believe the press now quote tweets from people who never knew here
Professor Green says he never knew her but thinking of her.....am I the only one who finds this odd? |
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I don't care who's daughter it is , i'd still feel the same if it was an similar kinda girl , and is the fact she's a celebrity that we know that bit more about her , and likewise she probably felt more pressure than most !
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I didn't know her either but I'm thinking more about her children right now.........................
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Agree Slippy
 she was lucky to have such good people around dreadful disease.. not all are so fortunate [:sad:) |
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And her poor, poor father and sisters - devastating.................................
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no Howdi...I find this whole phenomenon odd to be honest.....
..sorry someone has died and their family will be sad but all these tweets with outpourings of grief...from...as you say people who have never met her or who are not part of her family or social circle baffle me... ...the whole celebrity thing where people are put on a pedestal and worshipped from afar is probably part of the explanation.... ..must be many people across the globe who have unfortunately died in much the same way on this day and other days but because they are not part of the celebrity bubble get no mention whatsoever...certainly they do not get millions of tweets or facebook messages with strangers expressing their grief. ..I can feel a general empathy but that's about as far as it goes. |
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Has Tim Sherwood killed your emotions that much, Eg? That's tough...
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c. 155,000
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I agree Egner. It's 'sad' from the perspective of all death being sad and leaving a loss to someone but I've never understood how someone can feel genuinely sad about someone they have never met before with the exception of cases in which they are reminded of a similar loss.
There will be more outpouring of grief for this one death due to her being a celebrity than that of 239 people dying in a plane crash. |
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It depends to some extent how much you read or knew about that person. If you're used to looking at photos of them, or reading their columns, or looking at their Tweets, I suppose the 'celeb' becomes like a sort of friend. Not a close friend, obviously, but more like somebody you hear about from other 'friends'.
It is a bit weird, but I can see how the death of somebody like Peaches would have a much greater impact on people than 239 people who we never knew about, and still know absolutely nothing about - and, presumably, will always know nothing about. |
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not quite my point dewey
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egner -I certainly didn't know Princess Diana personally either, the same as millions of British people, that didn't make her death any less the sadder for many, many people...did it? Surely it wasn't just because she was a member of the Royal Family - was it?
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Princess Di wasn't a junkie, and she never committed suicide.
A bit different to people like Hendrix, through the years and right up to Amy Winehouse. |
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...I thought the Pricess Di thing was very very strange also......
..almost like a mass hysteria..... ..again...felt empathy espeacially for the young ones losing a mother.....but the outpouring of grief......didn't get it to be honest. |
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I'm with egner on this one...
If you knew her, or was a fan etc. then feel free to be very upset, but if she's nothing more than the name 'Peaches Geldof' then be just as upset for everybody else that's died her age. |
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My mum said she felt genuinely sad when Freddie Mercury died.
Being the sad trekkie I am, I was a bit gutted when Bones and Scotty died. Don't think Nimoy's long for this world either. Deffo death list contender. |
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RIP,sad to see her go although she was mega talentless
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It depends to some extent how much you read or knew about that person
I can understand that to an extent. Say an actor, favourite musician or someone who had an affect on your life but are we honestly saying this is the case here for all these people saying how sad it is? However she seems to be known I'd imagine to most people just for being a 'celeb'. Most people will know less or have seen her less than most BBC News presenters for example ,but I doubt there would be as much faux grief if someone like that passed early. |
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i'm with egner.
it's not empathy, it's grief porn. |
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she believed her house was haunted ,strange picture of a hand on her shoulder while she bathing her baby
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Surely this is simple.
A family have lost their daughter, and we should have sympathy. |
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alexander bastedo , kate omara have died in the last few months, doubt they had more than 10 posts on here between them, and they were icons
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http://www.examiner.com/article/ghostly-hand-appears-woman-s-instagram-selfie
v strange indeed |
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I'm not upset - but I can't help feeling that it is very, very sad.........
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Most people will know less or have seen her less than most BBC News presenters for example ,but I doubt there would be as much faux grief if someone like that passed early.
Bugger that. If Fiona Bruce cops it, I'm sacrificing all my pets in her honour, and going into mourning for a year! |
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...now that pic is weird....
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No threads about the two British women who drowned in the sea in Tenerife today who appeared to go in to the sea to try and save two children who were struggling in the waves and heavy currents.
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Never heard of Bastedo, O'Mara was in her 70s iirc.
It's not easy to value life, but suicide is always tragic. It wrecks the lives of everyone around, not just the dead person. |
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We don't know that it's suicide, HM. She's been looking ghostly thin for the last few weeks, so she clearly wasn't in the best of health.
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History Maker 07 Apr 14 21:53
Surely this is simple. A family have lost their daughter, and we should have sympathy. Exactly ! |
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Also, and I know it's no real indication, but her tweets of the last few days don't suggest she was going through some extremely dark phase. What with all the photos she was putting up, I doubt she had much time to be depressed!
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Bob don't like Mondays
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alexander bastedo was arguably the most beautiful woman ever , she starred in the champions
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Sorry Joe, that's not how depression works
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I understand exactly how depression works, HM. Thanks very much.
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A kid has died, no matter who she is where she has come from, that saddens me.
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