Are you sure?I'm not mocking (any of) you for your sadness
Someone you didn't know, and would never know, died. Welcome to every day.
Yeah, I thought about changing that because it sounds a little rude. However, it's also factual and one of the biggest issues i have about this. I feel like, although it might be comforting for the family to see this public outpouring of support, in some ways it could also come across as a little...offensive to people who actually knew the man in real life. Sometimes when we lose someone, it can seem like other people jump on the opportunity to grieve without having the same knowledge of them or relationship of them that we had, and that they are only pretending to a grief which we personally feel very strongly and intimately. Thinking about this aspect of it led me to leave my comment as it was. I realize many people feel as if they knew the man through his art, and that there are arguments to be made for the grief via that angle. I will leave this paragraph at that.