She was fatally wounded in the process, though, presumably succumbing to her injuries just after strangling the last child.
Does anybody really believe he was mourning the dying children, and not just being a threadshitting douche?
They don’t hate us. They just hate you.
Nope. I say ban his ass.
Isn’t that the one where they desegregated the schools? I had no idea she was so opposed to integration.
One of the most annoying things about the Dope is that, by the time I see a thread, people have already said what I wanted to say. It’s not fair! 
Okay, so I thought of one extra thing: I’m starting to warm up to Twickster’s enforcement of the “Don’t be a Jerk” rule. (As long as she doesn’t warn people for their first offense.)
This. It’s so true. People are really detached from the kinds of horrible things that go on in the world due to those victims mostly being seen as “strangers,” I guess. But when you watch a movie with a celeb in it, regardless of them actually being a “stranger” to you as well, you feel more like you know them and you then take more notice of them when they OD/get busted/commit suicide/get a disease or what haveyou. As Stats said: that’s not how it should be, but that’s how it is.
Anorectic.
Also idiot, the proper reaction would be “its a horrible tragedy 25000 children and B. Murphy died today” not “its a tragedy that 25000 children died and fuck that drug using bitch B. Murphy.”
Both are likely accurate. People who abuse anorectics are often anorexic.
Obvious troll is obvious.
This thread got 30 more replies than it should have.
DNFTT
(yes, I know I’m adding to it by replying–no need to point it out)
Could we mourn him, or would that be wrong?
Brittany Murphy must have rocked at this game. I could only beat up 25. 
Show me one person who knew a kid that died today that cares more about Brittany Murphy’s death than the child’s. That’s right, not a one. They don’t exist. Is it so fucking hard to grasp, Cleveland Steamer, that people care about the deaths of people they’re familiar with, but not people they’ve never heard of?
And what really chaps my ass is that people love to toss out “celebrity obsession” like it’s the norm. In actuality it’s “celebrity mild interest”. Yes, everyone cares a tiny, insignificant bit about Brittany Murphy’s death- but why do people latch onto the “everyone” part and miss the “tiny, insignificant” part? Our country (and others) is hardly celebrity-obsessed.
Celebrities are representative of ‘people in general’. It’s not that we don’t care about the 25,000 kids who died today, we just don’t KNOW about them as individuals. We care about Britanny Murphy because we knew who she was.
Isn’t a Cleveland Steamer something that the Browns lay on the field every week? 
If it helps the OP feel better, I’m not currently weeping into my G & T over Brittany Murphy’s demise. OTOH, unlike the OP, apparently, I can understand how this event may spark a thread or two.
In conclusion: lighten up, Francis.
I think for the vast majority of people, a celebrity dying is like . . . a friend’s coworker’s spouse dying. Y’know, that nice dude you met once at your friend’s barbecue? You think, oh, how tragic. You feel sad for his family, if you pray maybe you say a small prayer for them. And then you go about your day. If my friend’s coworker/s kid was one of those 25,000 children, it would get the same thought process from me. Each of those kids probably had hundreds of FOAFOAF people who heard and gave it the same five minutes they gave Brittany Murphy.
If the celebrity is someone whose work I enjoy, I’ll often be more sad about the fact that I will see no more of their movies/music/writing/whatever than the fact that they, as a person a don’t even know, are dead.
One can certainly make an argument that we should give at least as much consideration towards those dead children ( and adults for that matter, why do you only care about children? ) But even so, at most that means you should criticize the people who aren’t doing so instead of bashing a woman who died young.
It’s called the monkey sphere. Well, there are more technical terms, but they’re no fun.