Bill Cosby isn’t dead, but why does the American comedian get so many death jokes?

Late Monday, Bill Cosby was said to be dead on Facebook and Twitter, creating a massive online buzz up until now.

In 2012 alone, Cosby has been declared dead three times on the social media, but the history of “Bill Cosby dead” rumor started even way back.
In August 2010, the “Cosby Show” megastar had already had enough of the morbid trend.
'I don't want [whoever spread the rumor] to do this anymore, because this is my fourth time being reported [dead],' Cosby told CNN's Kyra Phillips in 2010.

A friend of Cosby was brought to tears by the fake rumor.

'Emotional friends have called about this misinformation,' Cosby tweeted.

'To the people behind the foolishness, I'm not sure you see how upsetting this is.'

After enjoying the initial buzz for a while, you may come to wonder why these celebrity death hoaxes continue to spring up. In the past, many celebrities have fallen victim to death hoaxes, including Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Demi Moore, Brad Pitt and Jackie Chan among many.



What motives are behind these coarse jokes?

Hoax is “a manipulation of social power,” Pamela Brown Rutledge, Ph.D., M.B.A. in Positively Media stated in a Psychology Today article in March.

“In Twitter hoaxes, pa.