What is a celebrity death?

There seems to have been more than the usual dose this year. Maybe it's just because of who they are that it seems that way. I would think that logically it isn't really much of a different number than the usual crop but logic doesn't always account for luck(or anti-luck, in this case.) In the age of social media and hyper awareness of all things bad and good I tend to think it's generally just that... we are simply more aware of what is happening these days than were were in the past. Either way, it's just the way things are and we all gotta deal with it the same... in our own ways, preferably.