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user-inactivated  ·  2829 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead

Offtopic but the way you worded the title made me sad at first. I was thinking "Oh no! Bela Lugosi died!"

Then..... slowly..... I realized, how in the world could Bela Lugosi still be alive to begin with? Then noticed it was a song.

I think that kind of sums up the whole "celebrities dying" news stories. People just see a name that they know and love or maybe even just heard of and want to connect with their death, but sometimes, it's a complete fantasy and it's all in your head, and a celebrity's death really has nothing to do with you other than maybe you won't get to see them do <insert_famous_thing_here> again.

Half of the time they aren't doing it anymore anyway, so screw celebrity death news. More people die a second than that guy you saw in some movie or TV show. Maybe it's just because you know their face and you don't know or see the millions others dying that makes you care about those stories.