> > Aaliyah, the young Hip-hop/R&B singer, died in a plane crash on Saturday after filming her next video in the Bahamas.
> > I just heard about this and I'm so, so sad. It's an awful, awful tragedy when such talented young people go before their time.
> > It's another Selena :(
> > *sigh*
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> I don't want to sound inflammatory, and please don't take this as an attack, but I always wonder why people make a big deal out of it when celebrities die young. I mean, sure, some of these people are very talented, but a lot of young people with great talents die all the time, and nobody cares, simply because their talents are not the sort that garner fame.
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> I don't know why, but this just bothers me, somehow.
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> Don "Weird rant" Monkey

I think it is sad that she passed away so young and with a bright future ahead of her. I don't care much for her music that much, but still I think it was a tragedy.
In the past few years I've lost two best friends to suicide. That was a tragedy too. When you lose someone important to you, it hurts really bad for a long time. Then one day it doesn't hurt as much. Aaliyah's fans are feeling that pain too. To them its like losing a friend. I don't consider it any more tragic than anything else. My only hope is that she and the eight others knew Jesus as their savior and that I'll get to meet them when I get there.