People die every single day. Kids, adults, teens.

People just like you and me, zobzu.

Thanks for the ringing the gong of facts. Now tell us what have you done that has saved a single anonymous kid's life? Go on.

straight words just for you:

lets honor and mourn the death of those who we do not know personally but are related to well known public figures = pretty stupid in my eyes. feel good kind of crap.

Why is offering sympathy stupid?

At the very least, this is the acceptable social norm regardless of the other person's stature / social standing, is it not?

on internet (and other mass medias for that matter), this "norm" is very much accepted only due to the other person's stature or social standing.

so, interestingly enough, what you're using as an argument is in fact the exact reason why this seems wrong to me ;)