Good for them. I think this is a good symbolic gesture to make people aware that lives are connected. The connection is not only between a child and parent/siblings/spouse/children. Of course I do not see how this can be won in court, since they have to show emotional damage and I do not know how they will do that. I have always felt that his death caused some fans to feel grief and distress in the same way that a family member's death could cause grief and distress.
Bollywood thanks for sharing and I hope things are better now.
That's ridiculous. So...every time a celebrity dies by another's hand, every fan ought to sue the perpetrator for "emotional damage"? It'd be a never-ending messy lawsuit campaign, especially if the celebrity in question had fans across the world. International courts, etc. would be involved and, with all the combined verdicts, the unfortunate b---ard who committed the crime would be punished beyond the scope of what he would get if the victim were a non-celebrity, and that just does not sit right with me, as it is placing the value of one human life above another due to celebrity--and in our courts all men should be equal.
I think people are well aware that lives are connected. No one would dare dispute the sadness fans feel when a celebrity dies, whether that be John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Princess Diana, whoever you want--their lives touched people beyond their friends and family, and I think this much is obvious to all, regardless of whether one likes them as people or not.
Of course some fans felt grief and distress in the same way one would if he lost a family member--I, for one, became an insomniac and cried virtually non-stop for months on end, something which still resurfaces from time to time. The grief is never-ending, but objectively speaking litigation is simply not the answer, and I would not ever seek revenge against Murray through litigation.
He will already go down in history as the man who killed Michael Jackson, and nothing aside from that point in his life will ever matter to anyone. What more symbolic gesture does one need? He was tried and convicted in the country in which the crime took place, and he was found by the people to be guilty of his crime.
Had he walked free, I could see how an effort like this would hold at least symbolic relevance, but he did not walk free, so this seems to be nothing but a pipe dream and a vain cry for attention.
You are right in saying they will most probably never successfully prove emotional distress to the court's satisfaction, and that this case will be as impossible for them to win as it was for Murray to win his own.
This entire lawsuit seems like a farce, and I think it hurts us more as a community in the eyes of the public than it hurts Murray.
