Why do people online get all RIP/morbid about people they don't know?

[Girgy85]

Think there's something quite human about caring for someone's loss.

Yeah true Rupinder, but do you REALLY care?

Depends who it is.

OK fair enough mate, to be fair when Jonny Wilkinson dies I will probably genuinely pay homage to him  

do you really think your gonna outlive Jonny Mfckin Wilkinson?

LOL good point  

I will change my choice to Ian Botham 

You honestly think your going to out live Ian Botham?

This guys deluded

[Woodsey]

Think there's something quite human about caring for someone's loss.

Yeah true Rupinder, but do you REALLY care?

Depends who it is.

OK fair enough mate, to be fair when Jonny Wilkinson dies I will probably genuinely pay homage to him  

do you really think your gonna outlive Jonny Mfckin Wilkinson?

LOL good point  

I will change my choice to Ian Botham 

You honestly think your going to out live Ian Botham?

Hopefully, he's one of the few people that is a bigger pisshead than me   

[nirvana]

I'd say 99% of people are incredibly selfish - it's kind of genetic but, family aside, our lack of any real displays of altruism sits a bit uncomfortably with us.

Increasingly, and especially since the aftermath of Diana's death provided a blueprint, celebrity deaths are an unmissable opportunity to not only 'care' about something but be seen to care.

This kind of 'caring' baloney even extends to grown men waiting behind in football grounds so the cameras can see them crying buckets.

I feel out of step and struggle with the blandness of phrases like 'RIP' - I don't even know what it means tbf

[Woodsey]

I'd say 99% of people are incredibly selfish - it's kind of genetic but, family aside, our lack of any real displays of altruism sits a bit uncomfortably with us.

Increasingly, and especially since the aftermath of Diana's death provided a blueprint, celebrity deaths are an unmissable opportunity to not only 'care' about something but be seen to care.

This kind of 'caring' baloney even extends to grown men waiting behind in football grounds so the cameras can see them crying buckets.

I feel out of step and struggle with the blandness of phrases like 'RIP' - I don't even know what it means tbf

Whilst I agree 100% with what you say I will admit right now that Diana's death was one of the few that left me genuinely stunned if not upset as such.

[nirvana]

I'd say 99% of people are incredibly selfish - it's kind of genetic but, family aside, our lack of any real displays of altruism sits a bit uncomfortably with us.

Increasingly, and especially since the aftermath of Diana's death provided a blueprint, celebrity deaths are an unmissable opportunity to not only 'care' about something but be seen to care.

This kind of 'caring' baloney even extends to grown men waiting behind in football grounds so the cameras can see them crying buckets.

I feel out of step and struggle with the blandness of phrases like 'RIP' - I don't even know what it means tbf

Whilst I agree 100% with what you say I will admit right now that Diana's death was one of the few that left me genuinely stunned if not upset as such.

Couldn't agree more. It was a stunning event and, at the time, it was hard not to be affected by the fairly universal outpouring of sadness - I experienced it too. I do think it has spawned a really crass mimicry of it at every possible opportunity since.

[scotty77]

I think most of it is just to be one of the first on their twitter feed/facebook timeline to break the news to their friends.  They really don't care just want to be seen as to care.

Remember that Kony viral thing a couple of months back? Wonder what happened to that...April 20th or something wasn't it when the streets were meant to be covered in Kony posters...

People are idiots and just want to be seen as compassionate when really most people are clueless and just want to watch TOWIE, and during the ad breaks they try and get their opinions heard on social media.

[RED-DOG]

I think it's partly down to natural empathy, (which after all is one of the things that make us human) and partly because it reminds us of our own mortality.

I'm fascinated by the obits these days.

'Newsworthy' deaths usually concern someone that was part of our life story in some way, even if only because remembering them transports us to a time gone by.

To give an example, when Edward heath died in 2005, I had no direct feelings of sorrow for him as such, but he was prominent during my adolescence, While he was in the news I was going through puberty, passing my driving test, going out with girls etc. So when he died it seemed like i had lost something, and indeed I had.

The Bee Gees records were played in the dance halls when Mrs Red & I were courting, and we watched them on Top of the Pops on a tiny black & white portable TV, which meant I would have to swing my lorry with the starting handle the next morning because the battery was duff.

I eventually managed to get the money for a new battery by fiddling the weight of some scrap aluminium when I sold it to a non-ferrous dealer. (he had fiddled me in the past so I reasoned that what was good for the goose was good for the gander).

I'm rambling off down Nostalgia Avenue now... but I suppose that's the point I'm trying to make.

[Amatay]

I'd say 99% of people are incredibly selfish - it's kind of genetic but, family aside, our lack of any real displays of altruism sits a bit uncomfortably with us.

Increasingly, and especially since the aftermath of Diana's death provided a blueprint, celebrity deaths are an unmissable opportunity to not only 'care' about something but be seen to care.

This kind of 'caring' baloney even extends to grown men waiting behind in football grounds so the cameras can see them crying buckets.

I feel out of step and struggle with the blandness of phrases like 'RIP' - I don't even know what it means tbf

I don't agree with that mate. You're saying people purposely wait behind when their teams lose an important footy match so the camera's will show them balling their eyes out? wtf. I've cried over a game of football maybe like 3-4 times in my life, its an emotional game. Would def not want the world to see what a tool i was balling my eyes out and take the piss etc lol

[nirvana]

I'd say 99% of people are incredibly selfish - it's kind of genetic but, family aside, our lack of any real displays of altruism sits a bit uncomfortably with us.

Increasingly, and especially since the aftermath of Diana's death provided a blueprint, celebrity deaths are an unmissable opportunity to not only 'care' about something but be seen to care.

This kind of 'caring' baloney even extends to grown men waiting behind in football grounds so the cameras can see them crying buckets.

I feel out of step and struggle with the blandness of phrases like 'RIP' - I don't even know what it means tbf

I don't agree with that mate. You're saying people purposely wait behind when their teams lose an important footy match so the camera's will show them balling their eyes out? wtf. I've cried over a game of football maybe like 3-4 times in my life, its an emotional game. Would def not want the world to see what a tool i was balling my eyes out and take the piss etc lol

Pretty sure you're an exception which makes you a real man, even though you cry at football :-)