@jeust: Your further posts do a better job of conveying your point, but the OP is pretty poorly worded and comes off as sort of moronic, and a tad insensitive.

But really, people aren't blaming the year as much as they're just lumping tragedy into an era, and hoping for future eras to be happier. Nothing wrong with that. No one here is ignorant enough to actually blame a period of time for anything. They know the actual cause; it's just tougher to talk about.

@jeust: This is clearly going nowhere. I'm bowing out.

This thread got toxic hella fast. Shit happens when I go to bed, apparently.

You're right, OP. People die every year because of various reasons and some of them happen to be famous.

However, blaming the year is just a way for people to cope with tragic news. That's all there is to it.

edit: 2013 was the best year I had for about a decade or so. I really turned my life around this year and I feel better than ever. So yeah, I like it. The worst news I had to stomach was Ryan though. GB content has gotten me through a lot of shitty times.

For me personally 2013 has been a pretty crappy year. Just a lot of bad luck, really.

You're literally telling people to stop mourning in a certain manner for no reason. It's not harming anyone and simply letting people express their feelings on what has been an emotionally rough year.

In my society people wouldn't be allowed to have personal motor vehicles. Streets would be much narrower. Designed for walking, with trees and narrow sections for public transports and services. No more waiting for green lights and looking left and right! Cars are ugly and loud and take up too much room.

Nobody fucking knows if they were speeding and telling someone to stop doesn't mean that will happen

I've found the meme that 2013 is an especially terrible year to be amusing. Think it has more to do with a younger generation discovering the reality of mortality. First you discover just how vast the world is, and then you discover how ephemeral it all is.

I'm just going to go ahead and lock this since it doesn't seem like it's creating productive discussion.

Some bad things happened in 2013, but 2013 didn't cause bad things to happen. I haven't seen anyone claiming such a thing. People that had a bad year would just like to put it behind them and move on. Nothing more than that.