What is it that draws us to a news such as the untimely death of a celebrity? Whether it's Diana or Michael Jackson or Elvis Presley and John Lennon and so many others? Now we have the untimely, tragic death of a teenage son of a cricket star. It must tell us something about ourselves above all. Are we attracted to these events by any chance because at some level, we somehow prove ourselves to be superior to the dead by having simply outlived them? After all, one of our most fundamental biological traits must be the desire to stay alive for as long as possible. Whatever else it's that you want to do, you have to be alive in the first place to be able to accomplish that. Celebrities are celebrities in the first place because we choose to idolize them. This idolization perhaps involves both admiration and envy. We must envy celebrities as they have surely achieved success in life in any of the myriad ways in which we may choose to define the term. Thus w...
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