Why is that people (talking about non celebrities) always kiss their families butts? And why do they always say RIP? What are they trying to prove by being fake?
2006-11-10 10:23:57 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
I have sympothy, but I also don't kiss butt.
2006-11-10 10:27:49 · update #1
I feel bad when they die, but they are no better than anyone else.
2006-11-10 10:43:23 · update #2
it's some american condition where people look up to brand names and famous people.
2006-11-10 10:25:42 · answer #1 · answered by killer boot 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Well, he was doing this in the process of making a series called Ocean's Deadliest Predators - certainly showed that they are. Perhaps they should televise what they have of the series as planned - reality TV at it best - in the right spirit of course, and as a credit to Steve and all he did. Don't know to what extent this may be true, but I am imagining some sort of meeting when they were planning this where Crocodile Donedied says something of the sort "Yeah, Stingrays can be dangerous, but the last time one actually killed a person was about 60 years ago..." I don't know and I am just being funny about the name - maybe he would even appreciate the humor. People awlays say how much of a tragedy this is and gasp or pretend to when they see the footage, but just like the Kennedy hit - alot of sickos will be "digging" it and playing it time & time again ;) 2 things I always like to say: No person is guaranteed tomorrow. Everyone wants to win the Powerball drawing, but no one wants _____________. in the space, place the tragedy of your choice which is just about as unlikely. But no - I highly doubt religion has anything to do with it.
2016-05-22 03:43:24 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People can feel a bond/closeness with celebrities because they seem them so often on tv and in the movies.
Some of them are poseurs who are just trying to make themselves look good by being part of the crowd of mourners. Hollywood is all about appearance, and being at a funeral for a celeb is a chance to meet and greet.
2006-11-10 10:27:44 · answer #3 · answered by dantheman_028 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Just because you don't know someone personally doesn't mean that you can't have sympathy and/or relate to how they must feel.
I didn't know Steve Irwin personally but I did watch his shows when I was younger with my family and I didn't know Gerald Levert that well at all but I saw him and his daughter on MTV's My Super Sweet 16 last year but I still feel their family's pain. The Crocodile Hunter was a significant part of my childhood and Carlysia Levert is about my age (she should be about 17, I'm 18) and I'd feel terrible if I lost my dad now.
2006-11-10 10:25:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
People often feel a real attachment for celebrities. Even though it is character, not the real person, that you see on your TV screen, a real affection can grow.
When one feels affection for a person, one feels sadness at their death. This is not fakeness or kissing butt, but a genuine emotion.
Just because you happen to be a hollow empty shell, there is no need to criticise those of us who aren't.
2006-11-10 10:37:00 · answer #5 · answered by ilovealandofcontrasts 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I really don't think people are being fake when they post those things. Just because the celebrities don't know *us* doesn't mean we don't feel like we know *them*.... after all, we see them and feel we know them because of the fact that they ARE celebrities and are in the public eye. Just as one example, when John Lennon was killed, believe me when I tell you that I grieved -- for someone I had "known" for all those years--and I grieved for his family, his children, for the world (if such a peaceful soul could be taken down by a mentally deranged man, the world definitely needs our sympathy) and.... last but not least... for MYSELF. I think when we post those things it makes us feel better... allows us to vent our anger & grief.... lighten the load on our hearts.
P.S. to kingarmybrat: wtf are you talking about Betty White dying? She's not dead.... was that supposed to be "amusing"?
2006-11-10 10:32:43 · answer #6 · answered by Helaine D 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If yoiu grow up watching or listening to a particular celebrity, it almost seems as if you DO know that person and the work that they did - particularly musicians who provide the music for our memories - so that, when they die, you might feel genuinely sad and grieve for them. I haven't had that happen to me, yet, but there are a few bands I've listened to for years where I'd feel that way if one of them died.
2006-11-10 10:26:43 · answer #7 · answered by dingobluefoot 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, I have known Betty White from TV for many many years and she has made me laugh a lot more than any of my family &
friends over the years and so I was very sad when she died a few days ago and felt that Mary Tyler Moore must be devastated because she never arrived at her house. R.I.P. Betty White.
2006-11-10 10:29:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Who says they are being "fake"??? RIP means Rest In Peace in case you didn't know! People are just expressing their condolences for the family and there own grief at the loss of someone they looked up to.
2006-11-10 10:27:12 · answer #9 · answered by x_southernbelle 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I do it and I am not being fake. It's having sympathy for the loss of that person. Stars are people too and they all deserve to Rest In Peace!!!
2006-11-10 10:33:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
they are not being fake, they are just leaving their condolences for the family. even when the person is not a celebrity, people still do that to ordinary people. and if they are celebrities, they might've been that persons idol or whatnot.
2006-11-10 10:25:47 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋