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But There Are No Saints, There Are No Sinners: The Extremes of Opinion When Public Figures Die
Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, died in April. He was 99 years old, nearly 100.
…As seems to be the norm, the world then descended into extreme points of view.
Especially the Internet, obviously, because the Internet is like every extreme dialled up to the max.
(Warning: this post discusses death (which you probably figured out,) suicide, grief, mourning, online abuse, domestic abuse, racism, colonisation, ableism, ageism)
But it wasn’t just the Internet — the mainstream British press were also pretty extreme
(…in that polite, British way, that means you don’t realise the extremity of it until later.)
Most of the main TV channels put off their regular programming to inform us that he’d died… and were still at it hours and hours later, and the next day, and for the funeral, to let us know that he was still dead.
(I kind of think it would’ve been more newsworthy, after the initial announcement and repetition thereof, if he wasn’t still dead, but that’s just me.)