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[ SECRET POST #2576 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2576 ⌋

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I hear the U.S. Postal Services is looking for cash.

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I don't understand this comment. Explain?

DA - I think they're saying to send letters to those people. Which I agree with and was going to suggest myself but that was kind of a weird way to put it.

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(Anonymous) - 2014-01-22 00:40 (UTC) - Expand

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(Anonymous) - 2014-01-22 00:56 (UTC) - Expand

I will bawl so hard when Patrick Stewart dies. And Maggie Smith. And Alan Alda. And Ian McKellen. I never really pay much attention to or get invested in actors, but when I hear that one whose work I've watched (especially if I've watched them since childhood) has died, it just guts me. :(

And Alan Alda.

That's going to be horrible D: D: D:

Agreed on Stewart. TNG was such a huge part of my childhood and he was my first TV role model so to speak. We've lost a lot of TV legends/idols in the last few years, but I fear that one may very well be the one that completely devestates and guts me.

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(Anonymous) - 2014-01-22 02:43 (UTC) - Expand

Hell, I got upset when Michael J. Fox got Parkinson's disease's - dammit man, you were a part of my childhood!

So, no one else is the teensiest bit concerned the secret maker feels more strongly about people they've never met than their own parents? Nope. Okay then. Carry on.

Maybe they don't like their parents much? It happens.

I was wondering that, but not everyone has a good relationship with their parents for one reason or another.

Not everyone has close relationships with their parents, it doesn't necessarily mean they hate them or anything like that, they just might not be close

That sounds like a personal issue and I don't want to pry.

I said this later on, but I'll say it here, too: For most people, their parents dying is unimaginable, but you can imagine the death of somebody else less vital to your life. I'm not sure that's what OP means, but it was the way it was for me. Before my mom died, I thought about celebrities dying more often than I thought of her dying and when she did, it was a complete shock.

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(Anonymous) - 2014-01-27 10:21 (UTC) - Expand

At this point, I would be much sadder at the deaths of beloved icons than most of the people in my family. At least those icons had a POSITIVE effect on my life.

Well, it seems I'm in the minority, but perhaps OP tells their parents that they're appreciated regularly, so, in the event of their death, they will be comforted by the fact their parents had known how OP felt, whereas these stars wouldn't have had the first clue.

Have you considered sending them letters?

Oh gosh OP I know what you mean! I love lots of 80's bands and things like that and I don't know what's going to happen when some of them pass away.

I still cry over Elisabeth Sladen sometimes too. Ugh.

Your parents dying is generally so unthinkable, you might fear or dread it but rarely think about it as concretely as you do about others. I worried about David Bowie dying more often than I worried about my parents dying. It usually takes something like that happening for it to really seem possible.

Get thee to fanmail, OP, is all I can say.

Act now! Send them letters, or something!
There was a visual artist whom I adored, I planned on meeting him after a vacation and he died while I was on the plane back... :

I have this exact fear about Anthony Stewart Head and he's not even that old. Buffy and Angel was such a major part of my childhood I can't stand the thought of any of them dying. When Andy (Lorne) passed I was absolutely gutted. Even when Robin Sachs (Ethan) died - and he played a relatively small part in Buffyverse - I was really upset.

Um... I don't know any of these people. Why do I care so much?

There is an author who I always meant to write to, then he died. I've regretted not contacting him ever since. I think a letter might be the way to go even if you do get a chance to go and see them live. Any situation you could meet them, like a signing or stage door, there are always gushing fans, and often at stage doors they really are hoping to get off home (like the rest of us after work) and you might feel you only have a second and it's very rushed.

I worry about that a LOT too. I used to be so obsessive about the thoughts of actors and singers/band members dying that I would Google them just to make sure they are alive.

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