Dead Celebs Everywhere

2016 seems to have been the most murderous year ever for celebrities - but that is surely very deceiving. However, that it was devastating for countless fans out there is undeniable: a number of so-called ''stars'' from the music world departed one after the other this year and the pace of it was unprecedented. In rapid succession, gone were Glenn Frey, David Bowie, Prince to name but three and, just when the year was running out and we thought the carnage was over, George Michael as well...? No one expected that - no one saw it coming.

So-called ''stars'' from the film industry also were biting the big one in tragic ways that were unseen until now: how touching is that when a mother passes away about a single day after her daughter unexpectedly dies? Debbie & Carrie, back-to-back: this is enough to cry the whole night until the new year comes through...

Morbid humor will come through instead, however - and that is what this blog is all about; well, in part it is; the other part is a strong belief in an afterlife... But that's beyond (quite so!) the point right now... So the question is this: how far is too far?

On social media, we have seen jokes about 2016 gunning to kill off as many celebrities as it can: it has spawned even a GoFundMe page meant to jokingly ''protect Betty White from 2016...

Betty White is already a certain age - that certain age which, once attained, one cannot help but to think that the end is nearer and nearer each and every day... Why remind her that she ''could be next'' like this...? How tasteless and cruel can one be...?  And yet, some found it very funny...

Even more tasteless was the bit about Ted Nugent, also a certain age, ''found still alive'' and that being ''shocking'' for so many...

The lugubrious blog does not condone such things - and it certainly doesn't want to be confused for ''one of those'' that started doing this back in 2004 and contributed in such a sad process of desensitizing of the masses. Death is a serious matter. Losing a loved one is a horrible experience. Imagine dying yourself, when you expect to have so much more time for all of your... projects and dreams? No one has gone there and come back; not ''completely'' gone and returned to describe... no. We can only see this from our side of things and, seen from here, it is the saddest thing there is.  Of course we have an added perspective: we BELIEVE... there is something else, something beyond this material plane of existence. Debbie Reynolds said, just before dying, that she wanted to ''be with Carrie'' - and she let herself go. She died of a broken heart, there is no doubt about that; the pain of seeing her child die was too much. And her heart stopped beating as well...

Her soul separated from that ball and chain that held her down here for 80-some years... Singing in the rain... Dancing... Performing... She was born to do that, down here, certainly; but she was first and foremost a SOUL BORN IN THE STARS - the true stars, up there; like each and every one of us. So many souls that err, due to conditioning, their surroundings, the material shell (aka the body) that they are ENTRAPPED IN... verily!

And she is free from that now - she is up there. And so is Carrie. Yes.

...as seen on YouTube - look for it yourselves in 2017!

Shortly after her passing, Carrie Fisher garnered quite the impressive collection of tributes, some more moving than others; some a hell of a lot more tactful than others, too! Insipid Steve Martin, a so-called talent if there ever was one, concocted a tweet that further emphasized how much of a twit he really is: he stated that, when he was a young man, Carrie appeared to him as the cutest thing there ever was - and I barely paraphrase. Later, he added, she showed him she had wit, too. OH. WOW. The obtuse old oaf! He objectifies her at first, admitting that all he saw was a pretty little doll when his hormones were raging... Then he maladroitly admits that, in his obfuscating view, she displayed wits ''later on'' - when she lost her looks, right? I am sure the idiot thought he was sharing a beautiful bit there... A truly beautiful tribute would have stated that she was always beautiful and always witty - and that she will be missed, most by those that knew her best... which may or may not have included him! That is not the point though: feminists lambasted him, others thought she was retweeted his bit, if she could do so from beyond the grave...!  NONE saw the problem with his comment: his separation of two Carries: the desirable one and then a mature, witty one...

But to come back (and conclude) on the core subject here: what is acceptable and what is not?

We all know true scum: we know them personally, so we know what they are. Maybe we perceive them as such and they are just like us, in fact: only different shades of gray - there are so many, after all, right? Enough for a franchise of bad movies, at least... But that's another story!

So why can't we push this envelope further than the Ted Nugent bit, seen on social media...?

Why can't we say something like ''NOOOO -NOT CARRIE! WHY DIDN'T THAT BITCH WHATSHERNAME DIE INSTEAD - WHYYYY???'' or maybe something else, like ''Dear Death: next time you wanna target somebody famous or that I know, may you please consider this jerk... and that other blasted wretch... and, oh yeah, pleeeeease, this moron... BUT YOU GIVE US CARRIE BACK NOW!!!''

Why don't we or shouldn't we do that...?

Because... there is Greater Scheme, a Greater Plan than all this - and those whose time comes, though it may seem odd to us and preferable that a whole other bunch bites the dust instead, well it comes to be that way for the best... of those who depart themselves, primarily.

Just ask the Departed... Oh, right, you cannot. (Nonewithstanding any séance that may have claimed otherwise...!)

There is a reason why they don't come back once they have departed...

They like it there better than they ever liked it down here - yes, even Carrie...

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