I never get the you-can't-feel-sad-unless-you-know-them attitude. Maybe it's not the same sort of sadness you feel when a close family member dies but its' sadness all the same.

I also feel sad but it's a relief to see her struggle has finally come to an end. She could have certainly died a better, quieter death, and the government should have never ever got involved - but that's quite another matter.

Incidentally though she has died on the same day Charlotte Brontë died 150 years ago.