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People being glad the public figure who's died isn't the public figure you think has died...
Last night there was a brief Twitter that Mickey Rourke had died thanks to this unconfirmed report...
http://mickey.rourke.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/actor_skiing.php
Someone I vaguely know posted it on their Facebook thing and then it became clear the news story had developed from a bastardisation of this story about 23 year old footballer Miki Roque who died of cancer:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18576519
The person who'd posted it was delighted that Mickey Rourke wasn't dead. But, at the end of the day, you've still got someone who you haven't met who's died young and in a sad way. So I thought being openly delighted that there was a 23 year old dead from cancer rather than a 51 year old dead from Snowbarding was a bit insensitive. But then you can't really get upset about everyone you've never met who you hear about who has died as that'd be insane.
So I don't know what to do think.