Have you ever been really saddened by the passing of someone you never personally knew?

[darthmongoose]

I bawled my eyes out when Terry Pratchett died. His books were such an important part of my teenage years and made me feel less alone in the world as an oddball geek in a fairly rural area.
I think it's valid to feel upset by somebody's passing if their life or death resonates with you in some way.

[KRWright]

Like @darthmongoose, for me Terry Pratchett's death also feels like losing someone I knew personally. There is still a hole that I feel that is very similar to grief whenever I see Discworld related materials.

Another celebrity passing that hit me in a similar way (though not as bad) is the passing of Leonard Nimoy.

[Llyrel]

Same. I actually cried after I heard of Robin Williams passing. He was a huge part of my childhood and my favorite actor of all time. Never met him in person, but would have loved to. His loss was truly devastating. Same goes for Terry Pratchett, one of my favorite authors of all times.

[Cavechan]

Human emotions can be confusing... There was someone I never met, someone who nobody ever met, whose death crushed me completely as a person for a good year. Someone I felt so strongly for I thought for a time that I would have traded my life for theirs.

Luckily, I am past it now. But it was a very difficult time. I understand completely how the passing of someone you never knew could affect a person. I don't think it's shameful or weird at all. Just human.

[WillowTree]

We were watching the new Jumanji the other night and my husband just sighed and said 'I still can't believe Robin Williams is dead.' He was hit really hard with that death too

[Iris-Grimoire]

It's normal as long as it doesn't overtake your feelings. Good timing on the thread too, a well known mascot actor from what's basically the morning variety show in Brazil just died. I found him a bit annoying most of the time, but I still woke up every day, for decades, listening to his funny voice and the quips with the show host. Now I'm gonna wake up tomorrow and that routine will be gone, which feels like a bigger loss than it probably should, but it's a natural thing to feel.

[MeltingCORE]

Like everyone else has said, no it's not weird to feel this way when someone famous has touched you in some way. When the singer Origa passed away, I cried later that night for her. She's one of my favorite singers (and not just for her Ghost in the Shell themes) so her passing was hard for me.

For those who haven't heard her music btw, please check this out:

[375]

I absolutely loved Origa when I was a kid and when I found out she died i cried my eyes out. Her music was so beautiful and divine It was her and of course, Nujabes whose music is part of Samurai Champloo.

I watched the anime when it first ran in 2004 as a kid and then in March 2010 when I was in high school on some website. When I looked into his music, I found out he died a month ago and it broke my heart. I still cry to this day over it.

[MeltingCORE]

I'm glad to see another fan! I think I will listen to her forever tbh. I didn't realize Nujabes had also passed either until just now... May they both rest in peace.

[375]

OH SNAPS. I'm so sorry D: RIP both of them

[sarahmcsquish]

Grant Imahara's passing this year.

I lost my dad this January. We watched Mythbusters all the time together. Every Christmas there's a marathon, and we'd spend the holiday watching it. Losing one not long after the other really hit me.

[pilot-obvious]

The first time I felt this way was when I learned that Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter died. I loved him so much and it felt like a part of my childhood passed along with him. Obviously I had never met him but I know many people who felt connected to him because he was so personable and charismatic.

[Kura]

Chester Bennington, Chadwick Boseman, and Robin Williams.

Usually I'm sad because it's unfortunate when you hear of anyone dying really, but these 3 really hit hard.

Chester Bennington and Robin Williams I grew up with, Chester's song lyrics greatly affected my life and helped me get through a lot of pain in my younger years, while Robin Williams was such a recognizable actor in a lot of movies I would watch as a kid. They were just such huge parts of my life for me.

Chadwick Boseman was a little different, since he was not an actor that I grew up with, more like someone I had just been introduced to and was excited to see more things from.

In addition Kobe Bryant can also indirectly be added to the list. Though I'm not a huge sports fan a lot of my close friends were, including my partner, and when he and his daughter were killed but put a huge chunk of my friends group in tears, which in turn made me upset because all of my friends and spouse were devastated.

[thedude3445]

The only celebrities to ever make me cry after they died were Robin Williams, Satoru Iwata, and Carrie Fisher. The latter, especially the way it happened, devastated me to the point that I still bawl every time I watch Postcards from the Edge (an amazing movie by the way, a fictionalized autobiography about Fisher and her mother).

[ar-ninetysix]

God, Chester's death hurt me too. It's through him that I learned how to scream my vocals..

It's especially sad considering his mental health is practically written out for everyone to hear and sing along to. Lyrics obviously aren't a direct call for help, just.. It almost feels like something could've been done there. Someone could've checked up on him, but of course, how was anyone supposed to know??

[BlunderingAlbatross]

There's a few that've made me sad (Chester Bennington and Robin Williams among them) but I cried like a baby when Terry Pratchett died.

I grew up reading his books and continued to do so right up until the last and they shaped who I am as a person in such a big way that it was like losing part of my family. I still can't bring myself to read my copy The Shepherd's Crown because then it'll truly be the end

[Puck]

I cried when Johnny Cash died

[gempompadour]

I'm not really sad when old celebrities pass away as they've had the chance to live (hopefully) full and happy lives, and them dying is kind of expected but sad. It's young people who die that affects me. Like Anton Yelchin who was crushed by his own car or that youtube singer Christina Grimmie who was shot by a stalker as she was trying to give him a hug. Both in their twenties, just getting succesfull and suddenly everything is taken away from them - by other people or freak accidents. It's the unexpectedness and unfairness that gets me.

[KhanSpring]

I get upset when I see young people pass away but it also sometimes pushes me to continue my life, because I have a chance to contunue it, while they don't.

[Dane_Sherbet]

Find out their favorite foods and eat em to flex on their ghosts.