And the world wept. But mostly because Lost Boys 3 just won't be the same

In Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom wrote: "Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another."

Fuck. That. Some people don't necessarily deserve tears. At least not crocodile ones from self serving ass holes.

Corey Haim died the other day of a drug overdose. Shocking I know. You'll remember him from such 80s classics as The Lost Boys, Lucas and, uh, yeah, that's really all I can remember. He's become more famous over the last 20 years for being washed up before 30 and being a waste of oxygen drug addict. If you're so inclined you can check out his IMDB profile, which incidentally is down 6% in popularity this week. Congratulations Corey, you had fallen so far from the spotlight that not even dying could get you decent press.

And so continues the celebrity deathwatch of 2010 that Brittany Murphy kicked off last month. (Also from a drug overdose.) Of course unless an accused pedophile (I'm looking at you Polanski) or a martial arts movie star with a thing for autoerotic asphyxiation (I'm looking at you Statham, but for no other reason that the fiancee subjects me to every shitty movie you make. Seriously, I got yelled at for 20 minutes on the ride home from the theater after Crank 2 for not being able to stop myself from making fun of that shit) dies then 2010 isn't going to have shit on 2009. But I digress. The problem with the celebrity deaths, or any deaths for that matter, is that once someone dies they automatically get remembered in the best light possible and people who didn't give a shit about the deceased while they were alive suddenly become their biggest fans and advocates.

I do not lack sympathy or empathy when they are deserved. But when a drug addict dies from abusing drugs I won't be crying myself to sleep. When someone who was an ass hole for most of their life dies, that does not negate the fact that they were an asshole. (As not to be hypocritical, I would not suppose that once I die people would spend hours talking about how I was not sometimes a big sarcastic prick.) If an alcoholic dies in a car accident when they are drunk I don't think it's necessarily a tragedy provided that no one else is hurt. People who don't deserve to live because they are wasting their life and/or are criminals should not engender sympathy when they go. A reaction of, "Welp, that happened" will suffice. Corey Haim is just the latest example of a person who died way too young due to unfortunate life choices that will be romantacized as a talented man whose loss has left a hole in the hearts of many. No, it has left a hole in the cast of a bunch of shitty movies he was about to be in because he's not that talented and squandered fame and fortune for drugs. If you are going to be a blight on society, I say good riddance. But not all of them have to die. Maybe we could just do, I don't know, this: