It was 10 years ago today....
 

That Princess Diana died.


I just remember hearing it and it was so surreal. Here was a lady who did alot of good around the world.....and she was just gone. Just like that.

I've always thought it kind of sad that those people who do the most good are always the ones you hear about dying young.....and yet I have a neighborhood filled with stumbling old drunks and crackheads who never lift a finger and die of old age.

Ten years? Man...it seems so much longer than that.

I was in my first year of school when it happened...I remember lots of adults crying for what I thought was no reason. I thought everyone was making a big deal over nothing. Why should we make her death a public spectacle when there were so many other people out there dying, my six-year-old mind thought. My grandfather died a few months before she did. Why wasn't he on TV? Why wasn't his death having such a big impact on people?

Over time, however, I learned of all of the good she did, and why it, her death, was such a public spectacle, even months after the event had taken place. It is such a shame to see someone like that go...I mean, she was using her publicity to raise awareness for things most people wouldn't have even paid attention to... *sighs*

I remember as if it were yesterday.

Sadly, I would receive some news that would send me into severe depression for 2+ years less than two months later.

I was depressed because I turned 13 on that date and my parents stayed up all night watching CNN. My birthday events got cancelled because of the news and their lack of sleep. And then school started.

Funny how things didn't phase me about what happened.

I remember waking up super early to watch the funeral procession.

Big whoop. Some press-hog camera whore got pwned and got some inane rock concert for a funeral we're still hearing about ten years later. I couldnt watch Beetleborgs because of that f*cking procession (end of the Shadowborg arc too)

And yes, she did "wonderful things", but they were buried beneath all the scandals she was involved with and wouldnt let go of herself for a quick buck. If she had spent all those interviews talking more about her humanitarian interests and not who her ex-husbund was doing, she'd have gotten more awareness from people regarding her plights. Now her goals will never be largely addressed because its much more interesting to wonder whenever or not The Queen ordered her murder.

Sh*t, I remember that! But yeah, I've never even heard of that chick until she died.

Oh. I wonder if anyone is going to remember Mother Theresa, who died, like, DAYS after Diana.

Princess Diana's funeral was the first celebrity funeral I watched on tv and it was the first time I stayed up super late.

Mother Theresa's funeral however was creepy cuz it was an open casket! :o

As for my age....I was nearing the end of my High School years (17). I'd only had internet for a couple months.

Man...I've been online for 10 years now...

Glad to see your sensitivity classes paid off! :D

And once more, the media makes a fuzz, after killing her off. Hounding her to death, by order or not, and then going "What a horrible tragedy" for years. And I always feel like the media is defiling corpses when they start hounding people again years after their relative died. Just let the dead rest and be done with it.

I don't know who she is.
Is this bad?

Not really. Just some Princess that died in a car accident. You were probably really young. Like Zarius said, her funeral and crap was all over TV and you couldn't watch anything you wanted that day. It sucked.

Wow, people not knowing who Princess Diana is, I don't care how young someone is, some people you should just know who they are from school or social activities, unless you're a hermit living under a rock. I wasn't around when Anna Sewell lived and died, but I at least knew who she was and what she stood for.

I remember getting up that night and turned on the tv and saw all this hoopla going on in a French tunnel. I saw the car crash, but didn't realize what had happened until I opened up the paper the next day. I was in shock. I didn't cry, but I was in shock. Last time I cried from a non family member dying, would be the race horse Go For Wand, when she broke her leg in the 1990 Breeders Cup and had to be destroyed right there in front of the cameras. That was horrible.

Diana should have been nicknamed "go for wand" given how many lovers she had...

I was five, so if she was apparently just a princess/celeb whatever, why would it matter?

wow. just. wow.


I dunno what to say. Good thing I picked today to go to a crossroads in my life. If I don't make it out ok, can die having known that the future is in good hands

What school or social activities? I was in school for eight years after she died and no mention of her ever, even in brand new history books.

Well, sorry, Warhorse. The state of Indiana didn't feel it necessary to publically educate me on who Princess Dianna was by the time she died (I was about 14). In fact, they never felt it necessary to educate me on her. Neither did any of my college history or social studies classes.

So, yeah, she died right before I turned 14. I had to sit in my parents' room and watch CNN or something while they sat and said "ZOMG tragety! She's dead!" for like 4 hours or something while not really showing or revealing anything else. Had they actually done something besides say the same thing over and over while showing the outside of the same tunnel over and over (like telling me who she is and what she's done) I might've cared at the time.

My parents thought that it would be "good for me" to sit and see this because it was history in the making. It didn't do much good, though, because to this day I still dont know what good she did for people. Everytime I see anything related to her it has something to do with camera-weilding motorcyclists, alcohol, some guy, and a tunnel. Aparently it was very important that she died but apparently I'm not supposed to know why it was a tragedy beyond the fact that it's human life and that she was a princess.

Thanks for bringing up Mother Theresa - Time just featured her
on the front of their magazine about her memoirs.