Is it ever acceptable to celebrate someone else's death? -

[Thiletonomics]

With the the recent TotalBiscuit cancer death celebrations by a select handful of people being behind us for the most part (are people still celebrating his death now?), that made me wonder about this topic. Would it ever be acceptable to celebrate someone else dying, even if they were an absolutely hideous person in life, i.e. a pedophile like Sick Nick, or a terrorist who causes mass destruction and death, i.e. the Aum Shinrikyo cult leader who was recently executed?

For me, while I can't see myself celebrating that, in the case where a person actually did hideous things in life, I would feel at least somewhat satisfied, yet still sad in a way because those atrocities still happened. One particular example would be when Park Geun-Hye, the disgraced former South Korean president who will most likely spend the rest of her life behind bars, eventually kicks the bucket, I would feel satisfied somewhat, due to all of the fucked up things she was involved with, including trying to downplay the Sewol ferry disaster.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

The problem is that celebrating the deaths of serial killers is good as allows catharsis for certain people, alot of the celebration of other peoples death is pure schadenfreude especially when it comes to celebrating the deaths of those for political or personal reasons

 

[A Useless Fish]

It's fine to celebrate someone you utterly hated's death.

It's sheer idiocy to do it publicly, though.

 

[Dirt McGirt]

If it's like Bin Laden or some shit, there should be celebration.
If it's someone you just dislike, you're retarded

 

[Xetzyr]

It generally shows a lack of tact. It's a "petty" thing to do, mostly in that you're trying to hurt those that loved/liked them, rather than the person themselves, who is already dead and gone. It's like you can't emotionally hurt that person anymore, so instead you'll settle for hurting the people who loved/liked them. Sort of an attitude like, "If I can't hurt you, I'll hurt those around you instead."

It shows that you don't just hate a person, but that the person has afflicted you with such unchecked infuriation that you're willing to hurt others to try and hurt them. Like sinking the whole boat to try and kill the captain. There is nothing lower. Becoming slime just to try and trip someone.

 

[Jub-Jub]

No, everyone's a top bloke after death

 

[killmeme]

Yes, you shouldn't feel ashamed of it and but it's better for you to keep it private unless it's some complete monster who's painted as a saint upon dying. Like for example, I cheered when Winnie Mandela died.
TotalBiscuit? He was an asshole sometimes. People who cheered his death because someone said something mean to someone they knew once and they blame Biscuits of this world for it are a bunch of silly cunts.
But I'm happy they share their thoughts publically. It's nice when people feel safe and are open about being cunts.

 

[SweetDee]

I honestly don't know. So many people die daily and we just don't think about it, or care. Sometimes, a big case gets sensationalized and then we "care" for as long as we remember. Is celebrating someone's death (let's say for exmple: a child murderer) worse than apathy? Do we have to cherish every single human life on this planet? Is it even possible to?

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I think you have to be a special kind of fucked up to celebrate a death. Even if it's somebody who did terrible things in life, that person dying doesn't take any of those terrible things back.

I do, however, think it's reasonable to feel satisfied/relieved, especially with somebody like Bin Laden or Saddam Hussein. At the very least, they won't be committing any more atrocities.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Seeing bad people die makes my day a little better. I don't do it publicly but sometimes bad, stupid, and/or asshole people deserve what's coming to them.

 

[Judge Holden]

It all depends one one factor.

Why you hated the dead guy/gal?

In the case of totalbiscuit people were celebrating due to the mere fact that he openly disagreed with them and occasionally mocked their faux-woke (and almost certainly insincerely held) opinions about utterly unimportant shit online, and thus he was declared a subhuman monster who deserved to die

In the case of people like Fred Phelps he was a lifelong sadistic shitbag who went out of his way to make people already mourning loved ones suffer worse solely for his own ego and masturbatory power fantasies.

The former is fucking pathetic by the metric of any thinking person not part of the circlejerk that decided "somebody not publically sharing views we ourselves know are bullshit is pure evil and im going to revel in his slow death". The latter would be understandable by just about anyone (even if not everyone would necessarily agree with celebrating the death) due to both the motives at play and the level of pointless cruelty done for no reason other than ego and/or profit.

TLDR if you hate the guy because of autistic reasons and celebrate his death like an autist you are a pathetic sped. If the guy actually did objectively bad shit in the real world and/or acted with pointless sadism, greed, narcissism, and selfishness at the expense of others then hate all you want when they snuff it

 

[OhGoy]

if anyone wants to celebrate my inevitable death, feel free to

 

[QB 290]

If you're going to hate someone or be happy at their passing, at least do it for a less re.tarded reason then "they said things I disagreed with". Otherwise it says more about you then it does them

 

[Woke Blue Muttlema]

Not gonna lie Im a shitty person who can find this sort of catharsis but going to the point of bragging about it is a complete new level for me. As much as I despise someone like al-Baghdadi I don't see myself celebrating, chances are a bigger cunt occupies his place.

 

[Commander Keen]

I've said to myself and close friends things like "glad the fuck is dead and buried" and I am looking forward to the deaths of some people who I have combative relationships with in my family. But I'm not gonna take to the streets and social media and wildly celebrate someone's death openly or air their dirty laundry.

My favorite was the funeral of a relative of mine and the preacher kid got up and told a thrilling yarn about how he was a family man and loved his wife and blah blah blah. The guy cheated on his wife until his dick wouldn't get hard anymore. Still, I'm not gonna go tell the preacher kid the truth. I'll just sit and smile.

 

[Piss Clam]

If it's like Bin Laden or some shit, there should be celebration.
If it's someone you just dislike, you're exceptional

I disagree. I wasn't happy or any other emotion when he died. It was just justice done.

That is the way I would feel about anyone else. I don't know why you would celebrate something like that.

 

[ES 148]

I don't think it's ever okay, no.

 

[Emperor Julian]

I'd describe it like masturbation as long as you do it in private and don't expect a round of applause you can indulge in your feelings in an honest manner. It becomes vulgar and repulsive once you do it in public

 

[Xetzyr]

I'd describe it like masturbation as long as you do in private and don't expect a round of applause you can indulge in your feelings in an honest manner. It becomes vulgar and repulsive once you do it in public

Especially if done for attention, which is why a lot of people do it in public, they want to try and use someone's death as a spring board for attention because they never learned how to interact socially like normal people. It's a sort of "shock and lol" tactic to attract mass amounts of negative attention. Because when you're starved for human interaction... any will do.

 

[1864897514651]

This is not a deep thought. This is a psychotic thought. Examine your conscience.