Bham Think & Drink: Kobe - Public and Personal Responses to Celebrity Tragedies

Michael Jackson, John Lennon, JFK, Robin Williams, most recently basketball star Kobe Bryant - When larger than life figures die unexpectedly it tends to dominate public airwaves and private conversations. Why are we (collectively) so impacted when someone we have never personally met or interacted with dies tragically? What should we make of the rush many people make to eulogize, rationalize, celebrate, and criticize the life and legacy of someone who has passed away?

Here's some reading to get your mind ticking:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/08/death-obsessed/400880/

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vdx9d9/why-do-celebrity-deaths-make-everyone-so-upset

Let's meet up together over food and/or drink and have a conversation about celebrity, influence, wealth, and death.

Just bring yourself, your thoughts, some questions, and a desire to meet people and hear perspectives besides your own.

You'll find us near a chalkboard that says Think and Drink! RSVP and we'll see you there.