General Discussion

I feel for his family. I do. I work in healthcare and understand that financial . . . challenges of the American system. We dealt with it when my parents died. And the spread of colon cancer in young and younger people is extremely tragic and deserves all the attention it gets.

However.

There's something distasteful when celebrities go bouncing onto GoFundMe to ask fans to donate when their very rich, if not actually wealthy, and influential friends are standing right there. They're posting all over Instagram. We can see them.

Mix in aspects like the death of a beloved figure, and it smacks of emotional manipulation to extract cash from people who are probably even less well-situated than his widow and children.

Literally anyone else needs that money more and has far, far, far less means and connections to manage it. Do a donation to a cancer research organization in his name. God knows, under the current administration, they probably need it.