Death as a Privilege: Inequality Between Celebrities and Victims of Gaza

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Death is never consistent, for no one. I am not referring to private pain, which is always individual and priceless, but to its reflection in culture, what creates a common history. Death, in other words, as a social fact. When Giorgio Armani dies, the news is not simply reported, it is exalted, ritualized, institutionalized. The obituaries become epic, the photos become icons. The news opens special on his life, an epic of the Italian genius. H…