Dianafication

I feel we should get a thread going on the Dianafication of Britain. A recent example is George Best. Can't find it on the net, but amongst the eulogies there was a letter to the Telegraph comparing the Best hysteria to Diana, and another saying that Best was virtually a murderer for taking a liver that someone else could have had and immediately hitting the bottle.

Here's a great Dianafication anecodote from Rod Liddle's piece on the 25th anniversary of Lennon's murder (an event which, in wiser times, was apparently not even the lead news story of the day):

All you need is self-love
Rod Liddle
The Sunday Times
December 11, 2005

The word “dianafication” was coined to describe the hideous and conspicuous writhing in grief in which we are all required to partake more and more frequently these days: the laying of the ubiquitous bouquets — in Liverpool, world capital of conspicuous grief, locals recently queued up to lay wreaths in an alleyway where a discarded foetus had been discovered, until the police put up a notice explaining that it was a chicken foetus.