Peaches Geldof - only 25

[Brandane]

I am no lover of the whole "celebrity" thing; most of them are talentless attention seekers. I do however like Bob Geldof, I was born in 1962 and therefore just at the right age when he made it with the Boomtown Rats. An excellent band IMO, who I have followed for nearly 40 years. Peaches was his daughter, and mother of 2 young boys, so of course it is sad.

To those who say we shouldn't be grieving for strangers: Malaysian 370. Do you not feel any sadness for the 239 people on board?

 

[vernon]

To those who say we shouldn't be grieving for strangers: Malaysian 370. Do you not feel any sadness for the 239 people on board?

No

 

[sazzaa]

No

I have to admit, my sadness only lasts about a couple of minutes, even for flight 370. And it isn't real sadness, it's more of a "imagine if that happened to me or someone close to me" kind of thing. Suppose it makes you re-evaluate things for a minute. I was sad about Winehouse though, was a big fan of hers.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Our local greengrocer sells waxed Fanny lemons

What do they taste like?

 

[Fab Foodie]

There's a cruel irony here though in that Bob used his fame and celebrity to save thousands of children's lives but [EDIT] was unable to save the life of his own daughter.

Apols, clumsy English in my original post.

 

[TwickenhamCyclist]

We artificially elevate our grief for celebrity death and massed stranger death. The steady drip feed of road death passes us by.

Is it not the case that road deaths are, unfortunately, so commonplace that they are just accepted as one of those things? Slightly OT - I can't remember the actual short story but I'm pretty certain it was one of Terry Jonse's, in a collection of myths and legends for children where the people of a city come to an agreement with the local dragon that they will randomly give him a coupe of children a month to kill in return for him to let them carry on and that this barbaric arrangement is soon accepted as normal - Jones then draws a parallel with modern day society and the acceptance that a couple of children will be sacrificed to the road so that we can all carry on driving as we do - (he, of course, puts it far more eloquently than I)

 

[PaulB]

There's a cruel irony here though in that Bob used his fame and celebrity to save thousands of children's lives but not that of his own daughter.

It's no irony at all. Unless we think it was remiss of him not to study Cardiology or Cardiothoracic surgery? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Socialite-mother-25-dead-home-yesterday.html (apologies for the source but think the story might turn out to be relevant)

 

[Crankarm]

Hughie Green was Paula Yates biological father not the father of any of her children and the coronors ruled Paula Yates death not to be suicide but an accidental overdose.

Ehhh? I didn't write Huey Green was the father of any of her children. This would be gross, her own children with her father! An accidental heroin overdose following the death of her lover Hutchence who was also on drugs fuelled journey to oblivion …….. Hmmmmm. She can't have been in the best of mental health especially as she was taking heroin at what was likely a very difficult time probably a time in which she probably wasn't the best mother to Peaches if she was on heroin for much of it. History seems to have repeated itself.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Do we know what happened to here? If so, was it anything he could have prevented?

Im not necessarily saying that he could, but it was quite a feat to have done so much for others children and to then lose one of his own.

 

[ianrauk]

To those who say we shouldn't be grieving for strangers: Malaysian 370. Do you not feel any sadness for the 239 people on board?

There is a difference between grief and sadness. I certainly don't grieve for the Malaysian 370 passengers, Peaches Geldof or anyone else that I don't know personally, celebrity or otherwise. However I do feel sadness at their deaths.

 

[Fab Foodie]

[QUOTE 3017031, member: 45"]Is that fair?[/QUOTE]
I've no idea, it's how it is.

EDIT
BTW - thanks you made me re-read my post which didn't quite convey what Ioriginally meant.

 

[Crankarm]

You don't know what you're talking about, as usual Crankarm, and that is a nasty and unfounded thing to say about anyone, celebrity or not.

Oh FO! This is rich coming from you.

 

[Haitch]

Oh FO! This is rich coming from you.

You don't know what you're talking about, as usual Crankarm, and that is a nasty and unfounded thing to say about anyone.

 

[Crankarm]

You don't know what you're talking about, as usual Crankarm, and that is a nasty and unfounded thing to say about anyone.

And you can PO too.

 

[stephec]

I can see another locked thread coming.