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When someone dies, our first reaction is disbelief. We're stunned. That's immediately followed

by a need to know what happened. How? Where? It's only natural. We need information to help us process the news

and the emotion that comes with it. The next stage might be, could anything have been done to prevent this?

Could someone have helped or intervened? In some cases, perhaps, but in the case of health issues,

maybe not.

And finally, there's this.

Could what happened to that person happen to me?

Again, that's totally normal.

When it comes to the death of a famous musician, there's an additional aspect to processing the news.

Chances are that we never knew this person as,

you know, a person. Our only relationship with them has been as a fan. So why does their death

affect us? Here's a possible answer. Although we never knew them, it was through their music

that we learned more about ourselves, and in a way,

when they die, the little of us dies too. This might only cause us to go deeper into what happened.

We just need to know, to make sense of it, and to put everything to rest the best we possibly can.

Yes, some people get very nosy and gossipy and intrusive,

but there's always a way to handle what's known through the public record.

Family statements, doctors' accounts, police reports, coroners, testimonies,

toxicology, examinations, and autopsy results.

And often we just can't look away because, well, we just need to know.

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