My sadness for Diana specifically is the real loss her death has been to some of her champion causes. Her continued pain-in-the-backside role on landmines may well have pushed that cause further in my country, for example.
On national mourning - it definitely is a manufactured event calculated for political benefit. Sometimes worthwhile, like Poppy Day, sometimes not. There is certainly a fanbase associated with a given celebrity's death, which does put it in the category of Olympics or World Cup, and I am pleased to say that other fandom, like ours, doesn't particularly believe a WorldCon has anything to say for national or international representation in quite that way. :-)
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Date: August 31st, 2007 01:41 pm (UTC)From:On national mourning - it definitely is a manufactured event calculated for political benefit. Sometimes worthwhile, like Poppy Day, sometimes not. There is certainly a fanbase associated with a given celebrity's death, which does put it in the category of Olympics or World Cup, and I am pleased to say that other fandom, like ours, doesn't particularly believe a WorldCon has anything to say for national or international representation in quite that way. :-)