Why Some People Grieve Dead Celebrities

One of the problems with grief over celeb deaths, according to Richard Harris, a psychology professor at Kansas State who studies civilian-celebrity relationships, is that "unlike real-life mourning, there is no social support for such grieving. People laugh at you for being emotional about the death of someone you didn't even know," he says. "Needless to say, this reaction doesn't help you work it through."
Why Some People Grieve Dead Celebrities