Why are many dead people more popular today than they were when alive?
98831
seriously...wanna get famous? go out with a bang, people will immortalize you.  a memorable bang, though. set up the press coverage ahead of time :)
989940
People like to say things like "The good old days" which is a lot of crap. What they do is take the fear out which exist every minute at any time. People also died young. No generation has it better when you come down to it.
581622
There are probably about the same number of 'weirdos' these days as a percentage of the population as there have ever been and as there ever will be.  It's just that today, as compared with the 1950s, say, we have such a marvelous communications network that you hear about the weirdos.  And if they account for, say, 1 in one-hundred thousand people, there are so many more people now than there were in the 1950s that of course any subset of that population is now much bigger.  The US population in the 50s was around 150 million, and now exceeds 250 million, so we have a hundred million more people, which means 1000 extra weirdos using the non-scientic guess for weirdo-rate I cited above.  In addition to the media-effect, crime investigation is much better now, so many "weird" crimes that may have gone unsolved and hushed up are now solved and used as popular television(!).\n\nWhat an odd species we are!
1157492
We think about it because they aren't around anymore.  As long as someone is living it's in the back of our mind that we can call them, write them, go and see them - even if we never do.  When someone dies it registers in our head that they aren't there anymore and there is no way we can get to know them or let them know we actually cared about them - which brings on a little guilt, because no matter how busy you are it only takes 5min of your time to call a loved one and say "hi, how are you" and let them know you care.\nIn our society family isn't always the most important thing and it should be.  In other cultures family is everything, no matter what.  Here in America other things become important - friends, ourselves, work, etc - and we just don't give our family the time that they deserve.
426182
CAUSE MOST PEOPLE ARENT REALLY NOWADAYS
495135
Because back in the old days people would sometimes "pass out" and as a result be buried alive. When they realized that people were being buried alive they started waiting three days to see if the person was really dead of if they would "wake" up
1030605
I dont think it has anything to do with population.  I think it has to do more with the fact that there are a lot more things to do than ever.  People work more that one job, kids are into lots of sports, going to the malls, etc.  This happens in large and small towns.  I lived in a small towm most of my life and now that I am in a larger city, I interact with people a lot more.
155712
well it can have a big affect and then again it may not. i think when people are popular it's more of what they do and how they act that make them that way. but then again mostly of what people may see it's the thinner one's with that certain attitudes that are popular. hope that helps a little anyways.
8980
there are approximately 25 more people in the world than there were when you started reading this paragraph. that's because current research indicates that about five people are born every second, while two people pass away, leaving us with a population rate of three new humans per second... ('',)
375720
Here's an unneccessarily philosophical answer:\nDead people arent people.  They were once people, but now they are nothing.  So given that there are exactly 0 dead people, and approximately 6 billion living people, there are more people living than dead.
574606
do you see dead people?
561891
why not most people are stuff when they are alive anyway right?
555929
Death of a person should be a joyous occasion because hopefully the person is going to a better live.  Being in the presence of God.  We cry because we'll miss the person and have great memories of them.  Funerals are homegoing celebrations.
1184224
two words for you man\nfree country\npeople arent dead because they are over weight or old....they can do what they want its all cool....if it offends you that much, LOOK AWAY.
895428
I dunno, why don't you ask them - there's a lot of them alive today!
718999
There were as many diseases in the past as we have today. The only difference is that we did not know they existed and people just died younger.
212108
Let us put it this way, popular people do not get a lot of attention. \nJust that, the people who get a lot of attention are called popular!!