Anon is sad about Kobe's death

To post inflammatory and insincere comments at the passing of a celebrity, even if you don’t like them or think they aren’t “worth the hype” or deserving of celebrity or devotion- even if you find the thing they are famous for pointless or distasteful- it’s immature. There ARE people who know and love that person and are mourning- and the fact they are a celebrity and loved by strangers doesn’t diminish that they were a person with connections to other people.

If we say that being a celebrity shouldn’t make your death any more important than anyone else’s, and more worthy of respect or attention- why should being a celebrity make your death any less so?

Kobe Bryant was a father, a husband, a son, a friend. He was a coworker and a man who gave at least some of what he had to others. We can say he brought joy to millions with his career or that he played children’s games for too much money and contributed to social problems. Those aren’t really relevant in his death or respecting it whatever ones feelings are. In life we touch the lives of others, when we pass those people feel our absence. There’s no reason to mock his passing and disrespect his memory and those who are alive and knew and loved the man.