I haven't seen a damn thing posted in this thread that tells me ANYTHING about this person's life, this person's music, this person's art. All I've seen is a bunch of people posting what they heard last night or this morning on the network news.

Now, if there were someone contributing some useful information about this artist which WOULD be useful to read in an obituary, I'd be all in favor of it.

But frankly, I find this thread to be nothing more than gossipy, and lurid fascination you see in people slowing down on the freeway to get a look at a car wreck. IMO, its tacky as hell and in very bad taste.