Sure, but that's kinda my point. I doubt many of your friend's friends will write blog posts about the dog. Heck, even if it had been a friend's parent, very few people would talk or write about it. And yet, thousands of people will shed tears and fill pages upon pages of blogs for celebrities who don't know they exist and whom they've never seen in person.

I mean, yes, Arthur C. Clarke died yesterday, but so did 150,000 other people. Should we only grieve for those who managed to achieve enough success in their careers to warrant public attention?