shocked and saddened

you may have heard, two celebrities died yesterday. the first being farrah fawcett. her death was not a surprise as she had been in a 3 year battle with cancer and the family had said that the end was near (her last rites had even been read). although, i never really watched any of her movies/tv shows, i also never had anything against her. she was a texan and seemed like a good woman and had fought a courageous, strong-willed fight against this horrible disease. what made her even more endearing to me was that she was diagnosed with her cancer shortly before my uncle was diagnosed with his and after watching the show "farrah's story" i noticed many similarities in the their battles. i think this may have been why i was so saddened to hear that she died (even though i was anticipating it)! the other death came a few hours later and was of course, michael jackson. this news i was shocked to hear! i realize he was the king of pop and for people of my generation, he was like our elvis. anyone around my age listened to his cassette tapes or records and when we hear it it takes us back to those days, but i can't understand why people on the news are balling hysterically when they didn't even know him. i think the reason that i'm not really that upset over his death is because the michael jackson that we knew and loved back then has been gone for 10-15 years. i also feel bad that farrah wasn't even given 12 hours of news coverage before being pushed to the side for the media circus over michael's death.