A Rant... You've Been Warned

[schadenfreude]

I posted this over at the Book of Faces, but I'm still angry, so I'm posting it here, too.

What's on my mind?  Have a seat and I'll tell you, though Fair Warning - if you're a fan of Matthew Perry, you may want to skip this one.

People have been ridiculing Matthew Perry basically since 2004, when Friends went off the air.  They laughed about him being high all the time, how much weight he'd gained, how old he looked, etc. 

Exactly one year ago, he published "Friends Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir".  People were calling him a narcissist, a junkie, etc., and totally pissed off over what he said about Keanu, for which he never apologized, by the way.

Perry died last week and now people are extoling him as though he were a hero, the second coming of Wonderful. 

Someone please explain it to me, because I sure as hell don't get it.