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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope this doesn’t sound too callous. With Matthew Perry’s death I am seeing all these people posting about how much they loved him - people who have never met him. If you’re one of these people, what drives your attachment to pop culture figures you don’t actually know?[/quote]
I fully agree with you, OP. It's so fake. If sooo many people actually cared about Matthew Perry, then they would've prevented his s**cide. No, let's all engage in pearl-clutching and concern-trolling now that the unfortunate man is gone.

I mean, I felt for him because it's not fun being a human being on this Earth and Matthew Perry was a human like me, but I also just went about my day without too much further thought. I have actual crises in my own life and actual loved ones who died. I don't give energy to celebrities because they are usually narcissists.

I find it very telling that this society needs to splash a celebrity s**cide all over the news, but says nothing for all the abandoned, neglected homeless people and poor people who die every day.

My work involves caring for the poor and disenfranchised and I don't give a f*** about celebrity deaths, for the most part.[/quote]

NP. Zero evidence at this point that he committed suicide, PP. Stating it with such definitiveness, as you do, is making a huge assumption. The coroner's office has said that they can't pinpoint a cause of death or the circumstances at this point and will say more when they have toxicology reports, which are not ready yet. And a set of weird IG posts, mostly about a character he has been known for decades to enjoy, does not add up to a suicide note.

Since you and OP are in your own ways being "performative" here to show off how much you [i]don't[/i] care about celebrity deaths: If you say, why am I bothering to correct you? Well, I haven't ever made it through an entire episode of "Friends" and have seen Perry in exactly one thing (West Wing). But I will call it out when people post as if they have inside knowledge about someone, when all they have is their own assumption based either on rumors, or based on nothing at all. [/quote]

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