Global Wake for a Joker: How Heath Ledger’s Death Became the World’s First Viral Funeral
Heath Ledger Died, and the Whole Planet Started Acting Perth, Australia—population two million, give or take a quarrelling quokka—still hasn’t forgiven the rest of us for what happened on 22 January 2008. That morning, a local surfer-turned-global-phenom was found face-down in a SoHo loft, and within minutes the tragedy was being live-tweeted from seventeen time…