Why Does Every One Feel Sorry When Some One Famous Dies?

I dont get it when some one feels sorry for some one famous dieing.What i am getting to is people felt sorry for the Jackson family when Micheal Jackson had died, it was on the news every where.But only about a year later Anna Nichol Smith had died.what i am getting to is that millions of people die a year but every one is getting sad for one person dieing.

i just want to see what every one else thinks about this topic and what you have to say about how 1 person can change the nations feelings

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