It's true that when we hear of someone we know of, such as an actor dying, it's gonna make people feel sad or something, even though people do die everyday.

I don't think people who mourn/post/are sad by Heath's death, even have to necessarily be fans of him as such.

I saw him in a couple of films, he was kinda cute, that's pretty much all I knew. I didn't admire him as such because he was just some actor to me, yes. But I heard the news and I did think "woah" and I did feel some amount of empathy or sadness for the fact a 28 year old guy had died.

Yes people die every day, and we don't hear about every single one on the news or front page. But whether people even like somebody well known like Heath Ledger, he is really recognisable to them. It's shocking to hear of anyone's death, but sure when you hear of "a 28 year old man died today" you probably won't think much about it, you don't know who they are, what they look like or sound like perhaps, you've had no contact with them.

We recognise Heath through things we've seen or heard, whether we admired him or didn't think anything different of him. I guess what I mean is, sure maybe we do mourn more for him than people we don't recognise or relate to because we knew a lot of him, even if it's just from one or two films. It's going to have that effect on people, I think it's just natural.

But if people were to not mourn or pay condolences to anyone who died, or only feel sad about those they recognise, I'd still say the latter is better. It feels weird and sad and shocking to hear of a death, in my opinion anyway and it's only natural we feel it more for those we recognise in some way. Doesn't mean those other deaths aren't sad, if I read about someone dying in the paper I feel sad, the more information, the more I can know about them the more sad I'd probably feel. If we were exposed to more about all those other people who die everyday maybe people would pay the same amount of respect.

I guess if you only feel sad about people dying if you personally know them, then maybe it doesn't matter if it's some guy or an actor, or whoever else, but I guess some people including me find it sad just because..it's the loss of a life I guess, and I think that's always sad. Not sad like it's effecting my life sure but sad like, hey, RIP Heath and I have sympathy for anyone who has to lose someone close to them.
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