Newly Launched Web Site Makes Light Of DIMEBAG's Murder

January 11, 2005

A newly launched web site, WeWontMissHim.com, has selected late DAMAGEPLAN/ex-PANTERA guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott as its January 2005 "Dead Guy of the Month." The site's home page features a photo of Dimebag complete with a superimposed "bullet hole" in his forehead along with the message, "He was in PANTERA. He was in DAMAGEPLAN. Now he's in 'THE GROUND'." A message posted in the "About Us" section of the web site reads as follows: "The second week of December 2004, 'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott formerly of the band PANTERA was shot and killed at a show in Columbus, OH. The story grabbed the mass media's attention and was played over and over again. The typical post-celebrity tragedy scenario played out over the next few weeks: Mega-memorials and tons and tons of people who appeared to be mourning a great PERSONAL loss. This puzzled us. 'What the fuck?'

"'How, we wondered aloud amongst ourselves, can a person experience such a deep loss by the death of someone they didn't even know?' It's kind of creepy. It's like dementia or something. Imagine that the creator of Mountain Dew or Zig-Zags is dead. (They may be... I don't know.) Now, I may enjoy the hell out of the products they created, but that was my only connection with them. Not a great personal loss. In fact it's less of a loss than most because I've got rolling papers and soda as a legacy. The same goes for most celebrities.

"People I don't know die every day. What about the old lady three blocks over that died the other day? What about your grandfather? I'm sure they were great people and all, but I don't 'miss' them. I never knew them. Everyone dies. I'm gonna die. You're gonna die. We all die that's what we do. Other than breathing, eating, and shitting, it's the only thing all the wonderful people in the world have in common. (Maybe masturbation too...)

"So make your shrines and memorials to the people you didn't know. We'll make ours."

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