I think the public over idolizes professional sport athletes.
I think what happens in these cases is that it brings the reality of death being around the corner for anyone smack in your face.
Celebrities are like a common friend we all know, and are of course are seen as privileged and larger than life.
When something tragic happens to them, I think inside it can hit us harder knowing there is no escape from death, and something silly as a slip and fall, or as horrific as a helicopter crash can happen to anyone at anytime.
This hit me pretty hard.
After a lifetime of really believing "that I will never die", and now becoming an atheist with no belief in any afterlife, the knowledge that it's all over pretty soon, and that my past was stolen, and my future is not what it should be is sadly a daily struggle for me to cope.
My kids are everything to me.
And even that has been adulterated by the WT.
I would have loved to have 3 or 4 kids, not only 2.
But we waited to do spiritual things first. (lucky my wifes clocked ticked when it did).
So instead of a big family, and having kids in my 20s and 30s, and being able to enjoy them and grandkids for a good portion of my life, I get an abridged version of that.
The cost of a cult is so high.
Sorry for my rambling, just needed to get it out.