dead celebrities

[RU Joe]

Originally Posted by Dudebro

Yeah really, this is normal for things that live and breath. Without a topic like this we wouldn't even notice much probably, I know I wouldn't.

There's some hard truth there.

Celebrities are meant to be generational icons, faces made familiar, and as such also serve as time markers with their passing.
For example, Elvis' death came as a great shock to my parents and their friends, as though someone they knew personally had passed on.

I've heard people from the United Kingdom say that their Royals are to them as our celebrities are to us - very interesting tabloid fodder due to their incessant shenanigans.

Still, when one of them passes on it always reminds people from their generation of their own mortality.

I think Steve Martin illustrated one aspect of this when he said:

'... it's nice to see so many young people in the audience ... to remind me of my own death.'