User blog comment:UnderAPineapple/Power, Priviledge, and Justice/@comment-26485526-20180131005401

I don't believe in celebrating suicide either. What he did was sick, and it pisses me off that he won't face justice here on Earth. I do believe though that he will get a ride on the express elevator straight down to Hell if in fact he is the coward that he appears to be.

That being said, I don't think it's necessarily fair to get mad at people for wanting to remember who he was on Glee, and for the positivity that he may very well have brought into their lives while he was on the program. I think that if people were to say "RIP Noah Puckerman," that wouldn't be necessarily a bad thing because they are separating the character from the person. Mark Salling is a child predator, and deserves to burn in Hell, but Noah Puckerman, the character, is not.

For me, I feel as though this is a very similar situation to the death of Chris Benoit in 2007, with the major difference being that Chris Benoit was still "Chris Benoit" when he wrestled on WWE and WCW television.

In June 2007, Chris Benoit is said to have killed his wife Nancy, his son Daniel, and finally himself. It is said that he had suffered many concussions, and was using steroids & pain-killers throughout the time he was an active performer. Now, there is a lot of speculation and conspiracy theories surrounding Benoit's death, some of which involving Benoit himself having been murdered by a third party and that his death was made to look like a suicide, fueled by the fact that there was zero indication that Chris Benoit was capable of murder. However, when they did the autopsy on Benoit, they found that he had the brain of an 80-year-old Alzheimer's patient due to all of the concussions he had, and all of the chemicals that were put into his body over the years. As such, the general consensus is that because of all of these concussions and chemicals in his brain, through no fault of his own, Benoit snapped and killed his family, then himself. In fact, just a little side thing here, Benoit's death, in my opinion, is one of the major reasons concussions are being treated so seriously now. before Benoit's autopsy, where they found out what these concussions did to him, head injuries in general were not treated really any differently than any other bruise.

Inside the ring, Chris Benoit was an amazing technical wrestler that entertained millions of people every week, and has inspired dozens of younger performer through the years. Upon these events happening, the WWE has seemingly done everything they could to erase Benoit from history, including his Royal Rumble win and World Championship reign in 2004. This is a very controversial move because there are a lot of fans that grew up watching Benoit perform since the mid 90s, and want to remember him as the performer that he was. Whereas the WWE (and some others) seem to be taking the stance that the mere mention of Benoit is "glorifying a killer." This is also keeping in mind that before all of this happened, Benoit was seemingly guaranteed to be a Hall of Famer at one point, something that doesn't appear to be happening anymore, for the reasons I stated above.

In fact, Chris Jericho, another wrestler (and one of Benoit's best friends), got into some heat over this when he dedicated at match he had in Japan (at Wrestle Kingdom 12) to his two late friends, Eddie Guerrero, and Chris Benoit. Some people were mad at Jericho for doing this because of what Benoit did, completely negating the fact that at the end of the day, Benoit was still one of Jericho's best friends.

To bring this back onto the subject the blog was about, if people want to remember Noah Puckerman for bringing them laughter, or whatever, and if people want to mourn the death of Salling for that reason, I see no problem in them doing that, because I do think it's possible to separate Mark Salling from Noah Puckerman, in the same way you can separate Chris Benoit the performer, from who these injuries and drugs ended up turning Benoit into, without "glorifying" the monster. That being said, celebrating Sallman's suicide, or lashing out at people for wanting to mourn his death because of who Sallman was, isn't fair either. Lastly, straight-up denying that Salling was a child predator just because he entertained you on TV is just straight-up stupid, and it boggles my mind that people would even attempt to defend Salling and his actions, that he should have faced jail time for.