Maybe this is more from those in social media groups and circles that tend toward writing, blogging, and list-making than others... but in addition to hearing about the deaths of celebrities as well as the deaths of those who otherwise wouldn't have obituaries who many feel deserve them, friends/acquaintances most recently tend to celebrate the X-th anniversary of things dying, be it celebrities, political eras, TV shows, even corporations. In fairness, people post about anniversaries of births too, though not as much as deaths.
All that said, "the end of" someone or something seems to be a go-to topic for practically everything in my feed these days. I'm not disgusted with it as its own thing, but why? How did we twist our computer-savvy, geeky society's fascination of death into this state of affairs?
(This applies to all social media and on-line journalism pretty much. And I'm guilty as charged.)
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 03:55 (thirteen years ago)