Celebrity Deaths

Unfortunate timing for Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon to depart the stage.

Seeing Farrah's Story last month helped to demystify a legend. I sometimes forget that behind the fame and fortune is a human being with struggles, pains and fears trying to see their way through this adventure called life.

The essence of life is it begins with potential and you try to use that potential to leave the world a better place because of your existence. That universal struggle is what makes us human.

Ed McMahon was a great entertainer as Johnny Carson's foil and should also be remembered as the first host of Star Search in the early '80's.

With the 24 hour cable news coverage of the death of Michael Jackson there will be little about his life that will be unknowable. I don't want to diminish his contributions to music and entertainment but I wonder why such extensive coverage? If his life hadn't taken such an odd turn with the surgeries, skin condition, germophobia, child abuse lawsuits, surrogate motherhood for his children, etc. would we have seen endless news coverage of his death?

Was his life like the auto accident on the highway that everyone has to slow down and look at?