GS
With the greatest of respect, I'm not sure you fully appreciate what "loss" is, and how it manifests itself. On one level you are extremely lucky not have experienced it, but I suspect the time will come where you will.
People will express their loss not to be part of a "bandwagon", but because they feel the need to express it. It's a perfectly normal aspect of losing someone in your life. In the case of Mr Whiteley (or Diana), although the public didn't *know* those individuals personally, they feel as though they do.
On the face of it it must seem quite extraordinary to hear people mourn the passing of Mr Whiteley, but it is a consequence of him being such a public and often seen figure. If you want to analyse it then you should do so within the context of his regular fixture in people's day to day lives.
If you are unable to get your head around how a man only seen on a box in the corner of your living room can become "one of the family" then so be it. It does not make the comments from genuinley upset people less valid or less honest.
I'm afraid, Siggy, this a matter for you to reconcile - rather than for others to suppress or deny what they feel.
Gavin Scott
Founding member
Dr Sigmund Mohammad posted:
i have feelings and thoughts on the death of richard, however i feel it improper and ignorant to pour my feelings into a thread like this - it will almost certainly never be read by anybody close to him and as such, the whole thing seems a pointless bandwagon jumping and approval seeking exercise.
With the greatest of respect, I'm not sure you fully appreciate what "loss" is, and how it manifests itself. On one level you are extremely lucky not have experienced it, but I suspect the time will come where you will.
People will express their loss not to be part of a "bandwagon", but because they feel the need to express it. It's a perfectly normal aspect of losing someone in your life. In the case of Mr Whiteley (or Diana), although the public didn't *know* those individuals personally, they feel as though they do.
On the face of it it must seem quite extraordinary to hear people mourn the passing of Mr Whiteley, but it is a consequence of him being such a public and often seen figure. If you want to analyse it then you should do so within the context of his regular fixture in people's day to day lives.
If you are unable to get your head around how a man only seen on a box in the corner of your living room can become "one of the family" then so be it. It does not make the comments from genuinley upset people less valid or less honest.
I'm afraid, Siggy, this a matter for you to reconcile - rather than for others to suppress or deny what they feel.
