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I think when a celebrity dies or anyone we hear about when we are already grieving it makes us think more about our own grief and also empathy for their family and friends,having to cope with personal grief plus all the publicity. It also is sometimes especially with musicians they were the background track too our lives and having already had the ground shifted under us,it just exgarerates it even more.2016 was a bad year for that. For me it was Wogan as a dj part of my childhood right through my adult life,and Bowie.