I don't necessarily disagree with anything the authors of the previously mentioned articles and reports have said about this idea about a "recreational grieving" trend. But the fact that these reports were written by "think tanks" brings up another trend that I find disturbing. The whole idea that we need to have "think tanks" to do our thinking for us is even more disturbing to me than the idea that we need to use the deaths of celebrities as a way of experiencing emotions.

Maybe next we'll be hiring people to live our lives for us.