Shambolic Drunkard Dies

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agreeing also, the way the media handle death amongst the famous always makes me cringe because they're so sensationalist about it

[rosalind]

agreeing also, the way the media handle death amongst the famous always makes me cringe because they're so sensationalist about it

Not only death. The media in general is a bit useless. The real story is only ever known through living it. The media always show bias, however minimal.
But we can't live everything, so we usually endure the media.
It makes me sad.

Not actually as sad as I come across in this post.

[Adventure Racer]

Back to the death of Richard Burns, I think that is much sadder, because his illness was not his own fault.

He was also still in his prime and could have gone on to be WRC champion again had he survived - in fact the last I heard he was recovering and going to start driving again, so this was truly a shock (he was also younger than me!). Rather unlike the other death this week which is getting all the publicity and beign described as a tragedy, despite the fact death was kind of inevitable for him, and it was just a question of when. Having said that if I was a member of Richard's family I'd probably be quite happy not to have much publicity about his death. He does deserve a bit of a tribute I think, but unfortunately that which he might have got at SPOTY for instance is going to be somewhat displaced by all the other wailing and gnashing of teeth which will undoubtedly happen.

[sail23057]

are you excited?.

Why in the world would you say that?!

[Lizi Beee]

"He does deserve a bit of a tribute I think, but unfortunately that which he might have got at SPOTY for instance is going to"

He did get a 5min tribute on top gear that week, i watched it, twas very moving, and had jeremy in tears