Peaches Geldof is dead, age 25

[Mikey77]

I'm not usually saddened too much by celebrity tragedies but this one did get to me. I'm not sure why. Maybe because I remember her being mentioned on the news when Paula Yates died and having seen her on TV so many times growing up. I think it's easy to latch on to celebrities, or build them up into a certain person in your mind. Having said that it is objectively very sad for many reasons.

There are some weird things in tabloid reporting now when someone dies. Reporting the twitter responses of idiot nobody wannabe celebrities, and even the ridiculous stories like a mystery ghost hand in a photo of Peaches. Is any of that really appropriate.

 

[Lord Camomile]

 

[treelover]

As all do

No Man Is An Island
No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.

 

[Citizen66]

Funny how people want to grieve and express sorrow about some non-entity who had a famous father.

I've neither grieved or expressed sorrow. I've commented; on the internet. As have you.

 

[Wilf]

Very sad, genuinely, a 25 year old with kids dying. However I can't say I've been affected or personally upset by it. No doubt I'll be more upset by usual scumcreeps on twitter and the performance of the press over the next few days.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

Funny how people want to grieve and express sorrow about some non-entity who had a famous father.

I think it's just what you do when you hear of someone dying, particularly so young too. I'm not grieving or in sorrow. People die at the same age every day but I don't hear about it so I don't really express an opinion either way. With people in the public eye they're a part of your life in some very tiny way, even if you didn't like them, because you knew their name, saw their face and knew a bit about their life so it's a very tiny piece of the puzzle being taken away when they're gone, some people are affected by that more than others. If a 25 year old woman died half a mile away from me while I type this there would be no reaction at all from me because I didn't know her name, never saw her face or even heard about her passing.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

Very sad, genuinely, a 25 year old with kids dying. However I can't say I've been affected or personally upset by it. No doubt I'll be more upset by usual scumcreeps on twitter and the performance of the press over the next few days.

I'm really glad I don't have twitter particularly at times like this. Seems it's just another avenue to let fucking stupid people in your life. I do comment on youtube though so I suppose it balances out there.

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

I Only glanced at Twitter but have to say that I saw a lot of sympathetic stuff and nothing nasty. I wonder if there's a tendancy to focus a small % of wankers who'd adapt their hateful outlook to any of the days news events.

 

[Orang Utan]

You can only see stuff by people you follow, so don't follow hateful people.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Blimey.

That's so sad.

 

[gabi]

I heard the Sun is giving it the full Diana treatment. First 7 pages devoted to it.

 

[Pickman's model]

it's certainly sad but as Cheesypoof says leave her family & friends to grieve in private. tbh it's not like she was the people's peaches, no one outside her social circle has a claim on her.

 

[gabi]

Presumably page 3 isnt devoted to her actually, altho this is the Sun we're talkin

 

[girasol]

Intelligent, photogenic, young, privileged, but also having dealt with so much sadness in her life: of course this will hit a nerve with most people...

It also looked like she had a bright future ahead of her, no doubt because of her connections, but nonetheless, lots of privileged, well connected youngsters don't fulfill their promise.

And weird how sometimes tragedy seems to run in some families.

 

[girasol]

Tragically young and desperately sad for family & friends....but top story on the BBC? Really?

Must be based on hits...?

 

[mauvais]

No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.

Except Barry Island.

 

[Red Cat]

Funny how people want to grieve and express sorrow about some non-entity who had a famous father.

Only funny for those who are so cut off emotionally that they need to try and convince themselves and others of their intellectual superiority to gain a sense of self-worth.

People feel sad because they imagine what it would be like for the little ones, what it would have been like for themselves, what it would be like for their own, or for a father to lose his young daughter. All that without actively imagining because it resonates with our most fundamental experiences of love. Isn't that obvious?

 

[Sprocket.]

Another sad loss.
RIP.

 

[gabi]

She wasn't a non-entity, none of us are. What a stupid fucking comment.

I have no idea who she was really. but she was a young woman, with young kids. and thats shit.

a friend of mine knew and loved her mother for a period in the 80s and used to tell me some pretty fucked up stories about their exploits. He genuinely loved her i think but also went the way of the needle. Presumably. He was on his last legs when i left brixton a year ago but i know that paula and her kids used to use his place as a hiding place from the media (in fact my bedroom used to be hers). she could escape from everything in his place, with no intrusion. she sounded like a good soul from what he told me. i've not much time for geldof but i think you'd need a heart of fucking stone not to feel for him at the moment.

 

[Awesome Wells]

she publicly ridiculed Katie Hopkins; that's worth something.

 

[flypanam]

Poor kids and poor husband whose going to have raise in the media's gaze.

Won't be long before the press is pushing 'The Geldof curse'

 

[Mr Moose]

Only funny for those who are so cut off emotionally that they need to try and convince themselves and others of their intellectual superiority to gain a sense of self-worth.

People feel sad because they imagine what it would be like for the little ones, what it would have been like for themselves, what it would be like for their own, or for a father to lose his young daughter. All that without actively imagining because it resonates with our most fundamental experiences of love. Isn't that obvious?

People don't want to be deceived by the spectacle that follows, nor erode their sense of class warfare.

You can have empathy and do neither, but it's also not unreasonable to be reminded that it can be a very partial empathy.

 

[N_igma]

Doesn't Humberto claim to be a Christian too? Very un-Christian like behaviour anyway.

 

[brogdale]

Must be based on hits...?

I don't know how story order is determined, but suspect that it was editorial decisions across much of the digital media to lead on her sad death. I was, perhaps naively, just a little surprised that the death of a celebrity should command such a primacy in UK news coverage. On reflection, though, I suspect that my surprise may reflect my ignorance of her work more than anything else.

Clearly Peaches was not a non-entity, she was quite the opposite...a celebrity product, and that status will live on to pose difficulties for her husband and kids as they grieve.

Sad.

 

[Athos]

Funny how people want to grieve and express sorrow about some non-entity who had a famous father.

She wasn't a 'non-entity'. She was a daughter, mother, wife, sister, friend etc. People express sorrow because its a sad thing that's happened. Not saying her minor celebrity status makes her death any more sad than that of an ordinary person, just more visible. As far as I can tell there was nothing so objectionable about her that would make anyone want to call her names, now she's dead.

 

[bmd]

I have massive sympathy for her family, her children, her husband and her dad and sister. Especially her dad and sister. To have gone through this with their wife/mother and then again with their daughter/sister must be unbearable. My heart goes out to them all.

 

[Pickman's model]

Except Barry Island.

nomans is an island http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomans_Land_(Massachusetts)

 

[Pickman's model]

Doesn't Humberto claim to be a Christian too? Very un-Christian like behaviour anyway.

born again? twice too often

 

[Wilf]

it's certainly sad but as Cheesypoof says leave her family & friends grieve in private. tbh it's not like she was the people's peaches, no one outside her social circle has a claim on her.

I'll allow myself a small, guilty chuckle at that.

 

[poului]

"After Peaches Geldof was found dead at 25 on April 6, police who searched her home that night say they found no evidence of ‘hard drugs, no suicide note and no visible signs of injury’ at the scene."

http://hollywoodlife.com/2014/04/07/peaches-geldof-cause-of-death-drugs-suicide/