Peak time for 'celebrity' deaths now:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38329740
Increase in numbers of 'real' celebrities after music/TV expansion in the 1960s, combined with increase in 'unreal' celebrities who now justify many column inches and pixels (famous for being famous, reality TV talentless nonentity, drummer in obscure metal band from the early 1990s....). The carnage of mortality will continue....