Journal Assignment: Why do celebrities deaths have such an impact on society?

I think celebrities tend to have a bigger impact on society once their dead, because they can be more easily researched, and once someone is dead, you don't feeel bad about devling into their personal life. It becomes history, and society says you have liscnese to know everything aobut them. They also can have no new impact on society, so once you've learned about the impact they've had you know all there is to know about them, and find yourself wanthing to know more. Since they're dead, they can't come out with anything new, so you end up searching deeper for more information, such as when someone published Kurt Kobain's journals. I'm sure that never would have happened had he been alive.