The loss of child star Gary Coleman has affected everyone. From other celebrities to adoring fans who grew up watching Different Strokes and eagerly awaited his famed catch phrase “what you talking bout?”, to his family members who are making their rounds on TV shows letting the world know that they will miss him forever. For a small appearance fee of course. However, no one is benefiting from his death as much as his estranged wife Shannon Price. She will reportedly be the beneficiary of his estate and has recently received $10,000 for selling pictures of Gary Coleman on his death bed to Globe magazine. Whoa. This has been the reaction of some who feel that Shannon is crossing lines of morality by profiting from the post-mortem pictures of her husband. Is she? I would say an adamant hell yeah.

As always I must play devil’s advocate and look at it from a wife’s perspective. Perhaps she feels that he would not want her to struggle financially? Perhaps she feels on some level that the world who adored him as a child actor deserves to see his final moments and thereafter? As his wife, does she have the right to profit from his death? If anyone profits from it, shouldn’t it be her?

Here is my thing, if money was her ammo there are plenty of other ways that she could have profited from his death. Undoubtedly she will be asked to make appearances on talk shows, interviews, print interviews, she could write a book about their life together. Why go so far as revealing his very intimate final moments on this earthly plane? That in itself makes me and hundreds of others question her love for him. Even if things between them were not always picturesque, he does not deserve to be treated in that way.

Coleman spent much of his life in emotional turmoil. He had issues with his parents and them allegedly stealing his money. He always had health issues which kept him in and out of the hospital. It was as if, he had no inner peace. At least now he can rest.

I’m not going to post the pictures but if you want to see them so you can the proof that she did indeed profit from this then go to Globemagazine. Should family members be allowed to sell pictures of their dead celebrity relatives? Is it immoral?