My goodness we humans can be stupid at times ..
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/28/en...rnd/index.html
^^ 2016 had become a thing now, a 'thing' to 'protect' people from.
Old people have always died - every year. And some tragically young - every year.
And some who have been lucky to get as far as they did, considering what they did to themselves. Every year. Always.
It will happen again in 2017 - as it always does - and there are more and more 'names' out there in the pool waiting as we have had decades of 'celeb' culture now, and a lot are nearing their time. Also its become a media fascination like never before.
This old lady deserves more dignity than to be made into a media circus to 'protect' her from something as intangible as '2016 - 'a year' !