I don't know about you, but when I am disturbed by something, I tend to react to it with humor. Like the death of a pop star, for example. Or the death of a sex symbol.
It's uncomfortable when someone we all know of dies, and people react to it different ways. But if you react to it with humor, because maybe it hurts you, too, and that's how you deal with it, a certain sect of the population who believe they are morally superior shout "TOO SOON!"
Here's an example...brace yourselves.
Michael Jackson wanted to be buried at a Walmart because he heard that little boy's underwear was half off.
Too soon?
Listen, I grew up listening to the dude. I don't know much about his musicianship - much of it seems to have been crafted by REAL musical geniuses such as Quincy Jones, but I don't deny the guy was talented. I'm just not willing to sacrifice my personal beliefs of the whole story to the altar of public opinion.
Too soon? Sorry...kiss my butt. The guy was clearly a lunatic by even the slackest standards, but because he was a public figure, everyone wants to cut him slack. I just don't. Sorry. He was accused twice of pedophilia, and I believe he was about as not guilty as O.J. Which is to say, not at all. Great entertainer? Yes. That doesn't grant him carte blanche for me.
Those of you that disagree, go back to your re-runs of American Idol and let people that can't do advanced algebra determine for you what you should think. That's really what you want, anyway. To not have to think. Let everyone else decide what is right and what is wrong and just jump on the appropriate bandwagon as you see fit. It will ALWAYS be the bandwagon that the most other people have jumped on. Congratulations lemmings, everywhere.