First, I am going to say that this is unfortunate, bottom line, I am not going to elaborate obviously this is a major tragedy for Kia Stevens (Kharma), however this post makes me really wonder exactly how much the following poster really knows, please see quote below:
That's too rich, yes we know Vince Russo pulled some petty and cheap storytelling with the Oklahoma character, after all exploiting the Bell's Palsy issue was a rather sad and cheap way to make a comedic storyline. I mean, personally I wasn't offended, well I was but not in the sense of "this is so mean spirited", I was offended more by the lack of creativity on Russo's part there (along with Ed Ferrara), but let's not forget the other and obviously more famous Vince isn't one to back up from distaste despite what you may seem to have fooled yourself into thinking.
Granted what I am about to say predates the Benoit Murder-Suicide but that's irrelevant, give Vince McMahon the right opportunity, and if he can get away with it, don't ever rule out Kharma's personal tragedy get exploited.
Some examples as to why, I have to COMPLETELY disagree with you...
- Eddie-spolitation, Randy Orton talking about Eddie Guerrero burning in hell and JBL mocking his mannerisms at WrestleMania 22. Eddie's death was pretty fresh at that moment.
- Then of course this fresh little nugget of information, the real life death of "Sensational" Sherri Martel. This one takes the cake and calls bullshit on your statement. When Sherri died, it just so happened to overlap with Vince's ridiculous and unnecessary kayfabe death, which came to an end but sadly only because of the real life Benoit Murder-Suicide fiasco. And even worse, even after the Benoit controversy, instead of just dropping this storyline and acting like it never happened, Vince didn't forget to make mention of it. You see the more amusing thing was this; Vince was given actual on-air tributes with his "death" that only wrestlers like Owen Hart and Eddie Guerrero received (last I heard they REALLY are dead, and Vince gets that same treatment) and granted Sherri was far removed from WWE, save a couple of appearances in the few years prior to her death, one appearance being a Hall Of Fame Induction, but for the most part her death was treated as an after thought and a mere "day at the office", just look at this image below:
Funny how Sherri is reduced to a minor blip, while Vince's "death" chews up the scenery and was portrayed as "real". Bottom line, I am not a fan of Vince Russo at all, but you're delusional if you don't think that Vince McMahon wouldn't chomp at the bit if he could get away with doing something to exploit Kharma's tragedy. And even if he does get flack for it, considering what I've seen WWE do in the past, I still would never rule it out, considering his "illustrious" history for such a thing on his part.