Gary Coleman Dead

Why is it that people only seem to care about someone after they're dead? Last year, Michael Jackson's death dominated the media for weeks, with huge outpourings of support for the late singer and his family all over the world.

Before Jackson's death, however, the media (and most people) made Jackson's life a living hell by criticizing everything about him - allegations that he molested children, his plastic surgeries, and even his children. People treated him like a freak.

Same story with Gary Coleman. Now that he has died, he's suddenly no longer the freak show whose life everyone took great delight in watching being torn to pieces. The man struggled since childhood with kidney and heart disease, and has gone through the most hellish mockery by the public over his small size and his financial and domestic woes, making it nearly impossible for him to find acting work (he once took a job as a security job to support himself, and even appeared in a porn video).

But now that Coleman is dead, all of that is conveniently forgotten, replaced instead by condolences and memorials - by the very same people who sucked the life out of him in the first place.

What is this obsession with dead celebrities? Why do they suddenly become Saints when they die, no matter what they did or how they were treated in life? It is hypocrisy at its ugliest, and it should not continue.

If you really cared about Gary Coleman, why didn't you send him a "Hang In There" sympathy card, or some money, or offer him a job, or show him some respect when he was alive? Don't delude yourself now into thinking that showing respect for him in death will get you into heaven for all the sins you committed against him in life.