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In Memoriam: Entertainment Industry Celebrity Deaths


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This thread is for deaths of celebrities in the entertainment business only. No notices about politicians, please. 

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What?? I saw that obit a couple of days ago and just assumed he had died recently. Why are these sites doing this? Do they think it's funny, some macabre joke?

Some repost obituaries on the anniversary of the person's passing (aka "deathiversary"). Tony Musante was born this week.

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Well that's a stupid practice on their part. If they're going to do this they should make it very clear when the celebrity died, otherwise it makes a sad mockery of the phrase "you will be missed."

 

I think it may be some algorithm that pulls the original story as a "related link" to something else, but people don't realize that. Most of the old obits that have been posted recently have the original publication date listed on the page, so it's easy to see when it was published, but that apparently gets overlooked.

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Pair that with the powerful lure of being first with tasty content, and it’s no surprise that some social media users are quick to hit the “post” button without doing a bit of research first, he said.

 

I've been guilty of that, but I like to think I've learned my lesson.  :-)  Thanks for the link, forumfish.

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People are posting to FB today that Andy Griffth died, whrn he actually died 3 yrs ago.

Why do newspapers do reprint death notices on death dates? When they know stupid people are on this world?

 

This was discussed just a page or so ago.  It seems that a new trend is to reprint death notices on the anniversary of the celebrity's death as a way to honor the celebrity's memory -- never mind that it is confusing as hell to people who don't always bother to read byline dates!

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This was discussed just a page or so ago. It seems that a new trend is to reprint death notices on the anniversary of the celebrity's death as a way to honor the celebrity's memory -- never mind that it is confusing as hell to people who don't always bother to read byline dates!

Oh, I know it was.

I just brought it up for precisely the reason you mentioned. The why. I can understand honoring people. But let's honor people like Sojourner Truth, Marco Polo or Frederick the Great. People who actually made a difference in this world.

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Why do newspapers do reprint death notices on death dates? When they know stupid people are on this world?

 

 

I made this mistake recently, in the last week or so.  HuffPo had a death in their side bar of "breaking" news.  I was in a hurry, so I did a click / copy / save on the link when I posted.  I did not check the date on the link.  When I realized my error, I apologized.

 

I am not stupid.  Really.  Rushed at times, yes.  But not stupid.

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However, I'm actually seeing people on FB who insist that because the media posts it, they are correct. I'm not kidding.

 

Hey, if it's on the Internet it must be true, yes? ;-)

 

Apology happily accepted.  Poor word choices and brain freezes, both something most people can relate to.

 

Amanda Peterson, gone too soon at 43.  R.I.P.

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It's just breaking now (ie, Google isn't picking up the articles yet), but: Roger Rees.

Here's a Tweet about it. No official/formal obit linked yet though. I loved him in his recurring role as Lord John Marbury, the eventual British Ambassador to the US, in The West Wing.

https://twitter.com/hellernyt/status/619721059743498240

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