As I’ve mentioned before, we as a family have been in the same situation as the Khans. As have many many other families.
I think this grief tourism is a scourge of social media. To offer your sympathy and/or to use your platform to raise awareness of the any ‘cause’ of illness/disability/death is in my opinion fine.
I can’t however bear the fact that people such as Hinch, have been following, and publicly commenting on this child’s end of life journey.
There was never going to be a happy ending.
This little girl wasn’t going to recover and go to Disneyland.
This mawkish public outpouring of grief for a child we don’t know is just awful.
Today another child will die, and tomorrow and the day after. We can feel empathy and sorrow but they are not our children to mourn.
Baby A’s parents may or may not get some comfort from messages. They will very likely be sad and bitter that people are getting on with their lives within minutes of posting a sympathy message, including inappropriate hashtags. Hopefully they won’t read the majority.
It is a strange world we live in. An instagrammer that can create a cult following who imitate her every move.
When she doesn’t have the sense or tact, to know what is appropriate it is dangerous.
The planter headstone post was an example of a crassness I’ve never experienced.
How she can bask in such unnatural adoration is a sickness.
She needs to ask her followers to have some respect, and stop hashtagging her brands on a post about a dead child.
But. She won’t.
Any ‘fame’ is good fame in her mind.
That may well be her downfall.
I am also uncomfortable with people changing their profile pictures for one of a child they have never met, and using photographs that are not their property as she has done.
I hope today will be a day off. I can’t think what else she can do/say to make things any better or worse.