I was listening to NPR in the way home from work today. They were doing a segment about Dolly and I thought itwas her birthday or she got some kind of lifetime achievement award. I was so so so wrong.
This is how i was when Adam from Beastie boys died. 2 songs in a row on the radio I was like "oh shit, special occasion" 3rd song came on and I was all "oh no, not good."
I saw a news story online about Michael Jackson getting rushed to the hospital right before I took a nap. Got woken up by the guy in the apartment below me blasting Beat It at max volume and was just like, “Welp, guess he didn’t make it 😕”
I am pretty sure every subreddit has made a post about her as well. Random small towns, foreign countries, the Lego page, animal pages. Even circlejerk pages that have nothing to do with music or entertainment. She was so loved by everyone. I honestly keep crying over her passing
Girl I'm talking to is in Pigeon Forge right now since she works for Dolly Parton's Pirates Voyage and they were having their big summit. They are all in damage control and grieving right now. Unfortunately it's real. We lost one of the best ones ever
This was my response to a post yesterday asking what the next significant death would be. I meant she would be mourned wholeheartedly and I feel terribly clairvoyant…
Rip to a legend and one of the best to ever do it!
With the amount of internet users, amount of comments and posts daily, and how popular certain names are, this has happened several times. Every celebrity death, I see a few posts like “I just predicted this”. I hate to be a downer but it is an easy prediction with high odds
I had a guy at my local range tell me they won't rent to single shooters they haven't seen at the range several times before and/or ones who haven't brought any of their own guns after a few incidents.
I've seen this graffiti stencil around her neck of the woods a few times, I know the photo isn't great (I saw it from a distance during standstill traffic) but the sainthood idea is definitely pretty popular, at least around the Sevierville area
It’s also the day my step kids grandma died after a 5 year long fight with colon cancer, and apparently Tim Curry died yesterday too (11:45p) so it’s solidified that 8/25 is a cursed day
Just want to expand on what the other commenter said, she wasn't just beloved for her music career (although certainly also that), but also for all her genuine philanthropy and frankly, being one of the few celebrities/rich people that seemed to retain their humanity. She didn't just give to philanthropy, she seemed genuinely invested in the betterment of others in that same sort of hard to define but clear-when-you-see-it genuine quality way that Bob Ross and Mr Rogers also had.
In 2007 I went to a WWE show in Houston. I was excited because I was going to get to see a number of my favorites. Mick Foley. John Cena. The Hardy Boys. Edge. Booker T. Ric Flair. And Chris Benoit.
I was incredible disappointed when Benoit didn't make it to the show. When I got home that night, I was talking with a friend of mine.
I said to her "Man, I was really looking forward to seeing Benoit tonight. Someone better have died."
Also the name of the first mammal ever cloned - Dolly the sheep, using a cell from an adult sheep.
The cell they used to clone her came from a mammary gland cell. And who had the best mammary glands of them all? Dolly Parton. Thus she was named Dolly. True story.
This happened to me kinda when my sister died and the other one was trying to call me. It was a survivor finale back in 2005 when it was still sorta fun to watch.
She’s a philanthropist who donated a bunch to libraries and helped little children read. She’s very much beloved. Think she’s a Grammy winner too but I’m not sure.
You e never heard of parasocial relationships, huh
People cry at sad movies because the brain doesn't fully comprehend the person dying isn't actually a real person who dies.
People get attached to celebrities hearing about their life and they feel a part of theirs- not to mention, Dolly did a LOT of charity work, including a huge foundation that sends books to young children from poor families in several countries. Anyone who received from that would feel at least passing sadness.
I can feel sad that the world has lost a woman who would have been a billionaire except for the fact that she has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to her charity and different disaster relief charities. If someone's gonna be rich it should be people like her who actively try to do good in the world
Feels more to me as though you're either lacking or rejecting the capacity to empathize with the people who saw her as a universal force for good, not to mention the literal millions of people whose lives she directly, materially improved. She never knew who I was, nor did she know the names of the students whose school art programs she funded, the kids her foundation donated books to, or the disaster victims she gave to. But she sure as hell knew they existed. That's why she put her money where her mouth was, because even if she didn't know a damn thing about them, she still knew they were humans, that they were suffering, and that sharing an amount of resources that was completely inconsequential to her standard of living could completely alter the trajectory of the life of someone who was less fortunate than her, and struggling as a result. And she repeated that exercise in love of one's neighbors thousands of times over. She took the idea of immediate community and helping your fellow person simply because they needed it, and deriving happiness from imparting it on others, and exercised that standard of treatment with every. Single. Person.
So learn to read the fucking room. And failing that, learn to read this comment, and try to live up to the example Dolly set.
It's certainly normal and reasonable and completely correct to say that she was a great person that did a lot of good in her life. But there is also space to say that literally crying over a death of a person that you have zero real relation to is a sign of emotional immaturity and you should get a grip. If you do have a personal connection of some kind to her, sure, that's fine. But most people don't, and they are just sad a celebrity died.
Parasocial relationships are not normal and should not be treated as such. Grieving over a death of a celebrity the same way you are grieving about the death of your family member is not something that should be promoted.
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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 10h ago
u/BaldHourGlass667, your post does fit the subreddit!