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Death porn: Our fatal attraction for gossip - eXBii
Quote: : IN THE wake of a particularly busy week, the Grim Reaper was too busy tap dancing to the beat of millions of frenzied mouse-clicks to respond to requests for comment yesterday.
He really should think about hiring an agent: his personal views on the death of actress Natasha Richardson and the imminent passing of reality TV star Jade Goody have been the only things missing from the media coverage to date.
In recent times, death porn seems to have become something of an obsession - from fatal falls to final farewells, our thirst for detail is such that we're permanently verging on dehydration.
Richardson's demise is a case in point.
Before this week, most would have been hard-pressed to cite three of the films she had appeared in but her last 48 hours were documented in dramatic detail.
She died "wrapped in blankets with tubes covering her face", her husband, the actor Liam Neeson, had flown to her bedside and her relatives, eyes downcast and mouths pinched with shock, had been photographed as they formed a procession into New York's Lenox Hill Hospital.
Initial reports suggested her prognosis was bleak and the saturation coverage that followed left little doubt that the decision to withdraw life support was inevitable.
Nonetheless, the temptation to keep checking for an update on her condition - and maybe a miracle - was often uncomfortably strong.
That's death porn for you: look and be damned, don't look and die wondering.
The only saving grace for Richardson, in fact, was that the end, mercifully, came relatively quickly, although in some quarters she was being referred to in the past tense before she was technically dead.
Earlier this week, the same thing happened to Britain's Jade Goody, the former Big Brother contestant whose every laboured breath, ragged cough and agonised utterance has been recorded as she slowly succumbs to cancer.
Much of the early coverage, it must be said, was generated with her consent but in recent days, as her life has slowly ebbed away, the details have bordered on excruciating - even if, as reported, Goody has been the one providing them.
What else do you call the fact that her final wish, that her wake should not be used as an excuse for a "booze-up", has already become a matter of public record?
Elsewhere, the story angles have seemingly been never-ending: her funeral is set to be broadcast on giant screens, her autobiography will be published posthumously, her daily diet now consists largely of Coca-Cola.
Not even the contents of her future coffin have escaped scrutiny: as well as her body, it will hold a photograph of Goody and her children that was taken on holiday in Spain two months ago.
The image can be viewed online.
The most curious part about Goody's protracted illness is that it has seen her elevated to the status of near-martyr - a title normally conferred on the likes of Princess Diana and Heath Ledger, whose careers and fan bases were well-established before their sudden deaths.
But many of those currently obsessed with Goody's condition never saw her on Big Brother and would struggle to name a single one of her accomplishments.
Such is the nature of death porn: tragedy is titillating and sadness is sport regardless of subject, although in Goody's case we now seem to be in extra time.
Following predictions that she wouldn't survive last weekend, the public has been drawn into a waiting game with the media, which has been forced to reach for its thesaurus to keep selling its story.
A sweep of the headlines in the past week reveals that Goody has been "close to death", "hours from death", "verging on death" and "on the brink of death".
On Tuesday, the UK-based OK!
Magazine took an ill-advised gamble by releasing a "tribute edition" bearing the banner "Jade Goody 1981-2009" and including the phrase "in loving memory" on its front page.
Its attempt to play God was too much for even the most hardened griefarazzi, with online readers deriding it as "revolting", "appalling" and "sick".
That said, many of the objections were raised by contributors to the magazine's website, leading one to wonder whether the gamble hadn't paid off after all.
Meanwhile, Goody struggles on, feeding the addictions of those who haven't quite had their fill of her suffering.
It's almost enough to see you wishing death upon her - maybe then she will finally rest in peace.
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Quote: : too big to read but worth reading
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We live in the age of Irresponsibility
India TV and STAR news are the top rated (Ad revenue) news channel in India for a good reason.
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Quote: : but worth reading moral of the story
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Quote: : news au Next maybe they'll start taking bets on ladbrokes.com.
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Anglo Saxons and Jews
They will sell their mothers for money.
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