I was just curious. Lets say you are just another struggling performer and someone in the industry croaks. Your agent calls and tells you. You may have never met the person; you certainly didn’t know them.
Do you send flowers & business expense it? Do you make sudden overtures like they were your role model? Do you show up, yank out nose hairs, pour out those Poland-Spring fed tears and “go with it or die” your display of grief? Do you hold & try to comfort their surviving relatives, glad that your phone was on vibrate, but secretly pissed that you missed all of those calls?
Just how hard Do you play the grief card to drum up business?
Or do just say you’re sorry for their passing and pass up all that free marketing & publicity?
Lets assume that in your line of work, having class has almost Never gotten Anyone Anywhere and is actually actively discouraged (it shows up other people of your gender as the phony sit-up-based sacks of crap they are and makes the talent that only has them as a pool to choose from unhappy).