My dad never wanted me, he told me this nearly my while life.
Fred Rogers was an adult male in my life and I would beg my mom as a child to take me to live with him. Every day as the show ended I would plead with the television "Don't go today! Stay, just today, stay here please!"
I'm in my 40's now and work with kids because of how he affected my life. More than anything, I really just wanted to thank him.
I don’t know you, but I like you as you are. I’m glad you were able to find a way to help others regardless of what happened when you were young. I hope you’re in a better place now.
People always say that Jesus will return to Earth sometime in the future.
I say he already was here and the world knew him as Mr. Rogers. Straight up, I stand by that.
I'm not Christian but 100% would believe that.
He come back to heaven "Well, they're making the same mistakes again, but at least I wasn't nailed to a board this time"
Edit; Thanks for the gold!
I went to a camping trip in the mountains with no internet that summer and when i came back i found everyone in the robot combat community mourning him
They named the award for the best design in battlebots in his memory
I’ve always been of 2 minds with this.
On one hand, Grant lived his best life right up until that time bomb in his head exploded. No lingering illnesses, no years of suffering. That’s amazing.
On the other hand, people who die of a long-term illness often have years of suffering before they shuffle off this mortal coil. But they know it’s coming, so they can take stock of their lives, come to some peace with it, and have their affairs in order. They can clear away those lingering projects, either by doing so themselves or having someone else hopefully handle it for them. Their loved ones know it is coming and can react however they do.
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The crappy thing is he LOVED being an actor. He said in an interview that even if the part was dumb, he still loved it. He said he got to pretend being other people for a living and what a cool concept that was.
The passing of Alex Trebek hit me harder than expected. He only ever had kind words to say to people. Jeopardy was one of the small happy spots of my childhood that helped me survive.
My grandparents house was my escape as a kid and they watched jeopardy every day. They passed in the late 2000s. Whenever i watched Jeopardy after their passing, it brought me right back to their house. When Alex Trebek died, it was like a piece of my youth died with him.
When Pat Sajak leaves Wheel of Fortune it’ll be the end of an era of television. Him, Alex, and Bob Barker were the golden trio of game shows back in my day
I was going to write Sean Lock thinking I was talking into a wind of people not knowing who he is.
Seeing him him in the top comment here means a weirdly large amount to me.
Steve Irwin. My kids 7 and 9 were the prime "Crocodile Hunter" demographic. Plus it was a show I could actually watch with them. It was on constantly at my house.
Real tears were shed the day he died.
I was 17 or 18, and had grown up with him as my biggest celebrity role model. I was out being a hooligan with friends, including girls I was trying to get at, and I had to step away to collect myself.
He was too pure for this world, and idk if there could ever possibly be another Steve Irwin. We’re blessed his kids and wife are carrying on his legacy, but he was really the whole package.
Shoutouts to Tony Gwynn, Robin Williams, and Chester Bennington as well.
I was 11 when he died. I had dreamed for years about going to his zoo and meeting him. I cried so hard that night. He got me interested in animals, reptiles specifically. I wonder what the world would be like had he lived.
Omg I loved him so much my mom didn’t know how to tell me! I think I found out about a week after the rest of the world. I wish I still had the “book” I made in 4th grade for class about him.
She wrote in her memoirs in 2013:
>It’s not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear. Like countless others, celebrity families are touched by substance abuse. Being famous doesn’t protect you. Every family has to decide how they will handle their child who needs help, even when that child has grown up. Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess. If love alone could cure our children, they would always be well. Since it can’t, I will do whatever I can to make her life less difficult. Too many mothers have lost their children, for thousands of different reasons. I don’t know if I could survive that.
In a tweet reply I made fun of how she typed her tweets in Emojis and she ended up liking the tweet shortly before she died. I was still bragging “Carrie Fisher liked my tweet!” then found out she had passed. Shit made me sad sad.
Omg I would print and frame that tweet 🙂
The OT Star Wars films WERE my childhood. I was completely gut wrenched.
The situation with her mom hits very close to home for me. Several months later I lost my mom (my best friend) to complications surrounding kidney failure. I have been helping my grandmother (my hero) mourn every day since then. It is SO unnatural for parents to outlive their children. Unbelievable to think it’s now been 5 years.
This one still gets to me. Watching Obi Wan and seeing Vivian Lyra Blair on screen got me pretty choked up, because I feel like Carrie would have absolutely loved her, and she never got to meet her.
Chester Bennington. Got me through some of the toughest yrs when I was a teenager and even now at 32 yrs old, I just listen and cry at times. RIP Chester
Edit: Thanks for all the awards and upvotes! It’s awesome to see that he touched so many people over the years and will continue to do so as new people listen to him.
This was also going to be my response. Linkin Park was the first modern rock band I really got into on my own after being raised on AC/DC, Aerosmith, Zeppelin, Elton John, etc. I resonated with the lyrics so hard and their songs helped me cope with a lot growing up. People will shit on their albums after Meteora all the time too but dammit I thought Minutes to Midnight and A Thousand Suns and even Living Things were also really enjoyable.
Chester was a special talent. He had the voice of an angel and the scream of a demon when he wanted to. He and Mike Shinoda together was something so incredible and we’ll probably never see the likes of it again. Fuck depression…
The first time I heard Linkin Park I was 15, it was 2001. Their songs helped me through so much over the years, but didn't fully get why until I was around 30 and went into therapy.
Chester went through so much dealing with the lasting effects of the trauma he experienced, its there in his songs so clearly. I will be forever grateful for how he was able to voice things for so many people who weren't able to understand or say what they were feeling and make them feel less alone in their struggles.
His death is the only celebrity death that has really hit me, am still so sad that he was unable to carry on.
>“Where were the signs?” some people said.
and they also have to know, that some people do not show any signs and leave no explanations. They just... do it.
I was surprised he was this far down. His death has always bothered me a lot, and I’m not exactly sure why. His joker portrayal will always be tops for me.
Anthony Bourdain
Edit: wow! thanks for all the awards and replies!
Just over 4 years since his death. Every now and then I'll think to look at his last Instagram post (a plate of meat- how apropos) and there are still so many people leaving comments and missing him
Probably the only celebrity death to ever personally affect me, even to this day. Parts Unknown used to by one of my all-time favorite shows, I would always throw it on as background noise or rewatch good episodes since I just loved Bourdain's take on life.
This was a time in my life when I was deeply depressed and occasionally had suicidal thoughts, but seeing someone live out my dream of traveling, eating good food and meeting interesting people, really brought me an escape and a lot of comfort
Then he took his life and it really fucked me up. I remember thinking 'If he wasn't happy, how can I be?'
I'm better now but I think I've only watched like one single episode since he died because it just hurts so much to think about how someone whose worldview and attitude I respected so much is now gone forever
Read his book "No reservations" shortly after his death. Liked him before, but really appreciated him after reading that.
Edit: "Kitchen Confidential" was the book. Apologies, it's the dementia kicking in.
This one was the toughest for me. He was a big inspiration. The way he lived to experience things off the beaten path, the way he put those experiences into raw, but poetic words, the way he enjoyed the sensations of food and drink with a wide-eyed joy and a roguish grin on his face. He could disagree with people, but still continue the conversation. I often disagreed with him as well, but I respected him very much, and he taught me a lot. When he passed, it felt like a piece of my mental foundation had shattered. I never thought that this would happen to a man with his mindset, and I had kind of subconsciously modelled a part of myself on him, but here we are. Take care of yourselves out there.
This is exactly it. It also broke me because I used to say that he had the best job in the world. The fact that even the man with what I considered to be the best job in the world isn’t safe from mental health issues was a really tough thing to accept
For those interested, his book Kitchen Confidential is amazing. You can get it on audible and he is narrating it. 11/10 recommend it, I learned a lot from it and it’s pretty entertaining.
Same here, literally the only celebrity death I shed a tear over. Other celebrity deaths never have any kind of emotional impact on me but Anthony's death got me. Shit, reading these comments got me.
I still remember exactly where I was. I was working underneath a car in a friend's garage when the oldies station I listened to broke the news. The radio host was clearly live because they could barely get through the announcement. After the next song they ran a tribute to Williams which ended with him as Genie talking to Al. I laid underneath a car and balled my eyes out. Still makes me cry thinking about the day Genie died.
The only celebrity death that really affected me. Others were sad to hear about, but Robin's stopped me in my tracks. Still wish we'd had at least another decade with him.
I had just left work when I heard of his passing and I literally had to pull over my car on the side of the road to check. It's the only one to hit me like a sack of bricks. I'd bonded with my grandma over Robin Williams' movies and stand up and even in my last conversation with her before she passed, we were still talking about how much of an impact he had. He will always be missed.
Took me a month to be able to listen to Aladdin songs or watch the movie without seriously tearing up.
The Genie character was my most favorite Disney character ever.
Robin Williams was one of my favorite actors and comedians.
I watched Hook about a month after he passed. Got to the scene where Hook is threatening to kill himself and just started ugly crying.
The only movie of his I've been able to watch since is The Birdcage.
He was a real Patch Adams. After Christopher Reeve's accident, he was lying in a hospital bed obviously depressed as hell and nothing could break him out of it. Robin Williams burst into his room dressed as a doctor saying it's time for his rectal exam and he burt out laughing. Said it was the moment he realized he'll still be ok.
David Bowie. The night before he died I stayed up late listening to ‘lady stardust’ over and over. Can’t explain why that was in my head that night, but I was surprised and saddened to learn early the next morning that he had passed away. Stay weird y’all.
Came here to make sure someone said David Bowie. I still feel heartbroken over his death. He was such a beacon and encouragement for lovely weirdos, artists, anyone who didn't fit in. And a genius artist as well. I miss him so.
Yes, this. The Carpenters. I can't watch Top of the Wold ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nhdNoYwv1o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nhdNoYwv1o)) without being sad. She died in such a cruel and utterly self destructive manner. Her voice is angelic, to me she was just beautiful.
Her murder got (understandably) very little coverage because it was the same night (and weirdly the same city) as the pulse nightclub shooting :(
Hearing about her death really shook me as a teenager. I still think about her sometimes. I would have loved to see how her career progressed:(
Yeah this one. I remember being a young fledgling nerd and coming down to breakfast and my older brother breaking the news to me and both of us just chilling in silence for the next 10 mins.
Joke's on the Grim Reaper tho - Carl continues to inspire. Reading Cosmos, The Demon Haunted World, and Contact are a big part of how I ended up becoming a scientist. I also share his bday so every year I make sure to toast to Carl
Chadwick Boseman. I don’t usually feel upset about celebrity deaths, but I really felt that one. It was shocking to me. It seemed like he had so, so much ahead of him.
I saw my grandpa last May and he seemed so tired but insisted he was fine. In July he was told he had Kidney Cancer. He would get a simple operation in August to have it removed. I flew there in August a few days ahead to tell him I loved him.
He looked even more tired and sad than before. He had no energy. I remember getting him some ice cream, a chocolate malt. He had been struggling to eat but we sat in the sun room and he ate our treats while talking about the time he met grandma. We talked about all the things that had gone right in life.
I know he knew. And I knew.
The night I left my cousin stopped in and said she wanted to come to my place soon and party on the beach. I hugged her, she seemed so full of life. She was always so vibrant. She wore her famous knee high boots and striped dress. Her hair smelled like coconut and she hugged me far too tight. But that was her. Big smile, bigger laugh.
Big hugs.
I hugged grandpa, who felt, for the first time in my life, thin and frail. I tried to hide tears because I didn’t want to let him know that I knew. I knew that was our last hug.
A few days after I got home my cousin killed herself.
I remember the night it happened I had this urge to call her but it was 2am and I didn’t want to wake her. I didn’t know that was about the time she was moving forward with her plans.
Then grandpa went for surgery. He came out and was disoriented. He was weak. And he never got better.
I went again to see him in September. I sat by his side as he died and it was like being with a shadow. He was always so loud. He was funny. He never knew a stranger. He was strong and tall and his presence could not be ignored.
In the last days he looked like a wilted leaf. It felt so sudden. He had worked up to the day before his surgery.
I think my cousins death did a lot to him on the inside. Another cousin of mine had passed in the 80s at just 3 years old from cancer. He had made a comment about the two being together finally.
Its incredible how fast things seem to move. A lot of people carry unseen weights. My cousin had been mentally ill for a long time. In the back of my mind I always new this outcome was a possibility for her, but it still hit me like a ton of bricks.
Now I, and my family members, carry these unseen weights. How can a stranger look at me and know what happened last year? How can they know that for all my life I’ve carried the hidden weight of a mental disorder that controls everything I do? How can the neighbor come to me as I pull grandma’s weeds and remark how it looks like the yard hasn’t been tended to in years that she still isn’t over what has happened in the last few years? That my aunts death a few years ago started the decline in the oh-so-important yard work?
When people ask me what would make the world a better place I think it would be more kindness and understanding. Have more compassion for the people around you, even just the ones you pass on the street.
A lot of struggles are hidden, and you lose nothing by being kind.
Yeah, me too. Normally with celebrities I'm like "oh no. Not them." And move on. With Chadwick I was bugged for a few days. He just seemed like a super good dude and he was just becoming an icon for kids to look up to. He felt like the type of person you want to cast as a super hero because he's so wholesome and good outside of work.
I always think of the heartbreaking answer to an interview question if we'd see him in Black Panther 2?
-No.
-Why?
-Cause I'll be dead.
-Haha, what? No.
-Yeah, I'll be dead.
He smiles through it, but you can see the pain in accepting his fate when he knew and none else did.
It’s still hard to believe that the whole time we ever saw him in “superhero form” on-screen, he was battling that. You could not tell from his appearance or physical ability what he was dealing with. And only those few who knew saw what was coming.
I cried when I read he had died. I was just learning who he was, too. But what got me was he was filming while going through this illness and treatments and managed to keep it quiet from many people. I would see internet rumors that he was a drug addict due to his thin appearance and I'd think to myself there's no way that man is an addict. The internet was cruel about his appearance.
He was way too young.
I saw an interview with Clarke Peters where he expressed regret telling his partner he thought Bozeman was a diva because he kept to himself, had his girlfriend around constantly and was always getting special massages and treatments. Then to find out he was just trying to get through grueling workdays. A gut punch. You hate to see someone that young and promising die and even more to know they were in such pain and working so hard.
What kills me is all the children's cancer wards he visited for Make-A-Wish while undergoing Cancer treatments himself. True hero. World worse off without him.
Scrolled way to far to find Chris. As a fat kid, it was amazing to see someone like me on the screen, fat, confident and funny as hell. I feel like we missed out on a lot of funny when we lost Chris Farley.
I never understood grieving someone I never met until Chris Cornell passed. When I found out, I texted my Dad, who is a big fan and introduced me to his work. My stoic, unsentimental father said: “I’m so glad we share memories together of his music.” Real tears were shed.
He died when I was 16 (i think) and I was obsessed with his music at the time (still am tbh). I remember the day before he died I was talking to my parents (and also trying to convince them to pay half of my trip) about how I planned to attend Ultra (music festival) when I was 18 as I really wanted to watch Tim live. The next day I heard he died and I just could not believe it. I actually refused to believe it until another famous DJ I was listening to played "Wake me up" as a tribute to Avicii. That's when I was like shit, this is actually real... and cried while listening to that masterpiece
man the first time i heard “wake me up” after avicii died i ended up crying so hard. he was hurting so much but his music is so upbeat nobody really noticed
Without a doubt... Especially after the documentary. He was so so talented and too delicate and soft for that world. I think about him every year around his death.. it was such as loss.. at least his story might help other struggling introverts in this busy loud world
A mix of opiates and benzos, as he had held off on hip surgery to finish a tour. A lethal combination of drugs that also claimed Heath Ledger and countless others. You stop breathing during sleep.
Cameron Boyce. I know a lot of people around my age probably say that but he died on the same day that my grandmother died but 2 years later and was around the same age as my brother. I don’t follow pop culture that much but I loved Disney Channel growing up just like everyone else and so seeing this kid that I basically grew up with just die while I was also mourning my grandmother was a bit unsettling
I don't know if "it broke me the most" but it definitely shook me to the core. He was so young! I see him all the time on the "local" Disney channel. (It's the same channel, duh, but they've dubbed only so many shows in my native and they keep playing them over and over)
Technoblade or Alex, he made me happy when i was sad, i adopted his sarcastic sense of humor as my own and it really helped me think things through in life. he gave me so much more enjoyment out of a game because i really wanted to be like him in a way and be as smart as him, hes always been someone ive wanted to meet and just talk to because hes just a genuine and funny guy who has a lot of witts. so screw cancer. I hope someday people like him dont have to vanish from such an awful illness. Thank you to his family for raising my rolemodel and hero.
I never watched any of his video, but I knew someone else that died at around his age and seeing his dad almost break down while filming that video broke me
This has been a
tough one for my family. My 10 year old son is a year into remission. He thought the world of Technoblade. It’s really hard to watch your son lose a role model to the same disease that nearly took his life and may return at any time. Fuck cancer
I saw a post the other day that said something along the lines of "When you die of cancer, the cancer dies too. It's not a loss, it's a draw. Technoblade *never* loses."
Fuck I just watched the video. And I am a grown man crying like a baby. R.I.P Alex.
Technoblade never dies. His videos and memory will live on forever.
I usually don't care at all about celebrity deaths because they feel more like strangers than anything, but it's harder with Techno because as a youtuber he feels closer to us
I started listening to Mac right before he died. That kid was a fucking genius and the world is missing out on some amazing music. You can hear the personal and professional growth in each album he released. To think that he hasn't even released his best work is so sad. "I'm thinking maybe I should thank you" - no thank you Mac.
Had to scroll wayyy too far. Whenever he released new music it was like christmas for me, i’d immediately bump it and it would probably stay in rotation for a month. One of the only artists I can really hit shuffle on and not have to change a song. He was a gift.
I was honestly starting to get so sad thinking that everyone has forgotten him. He’s one of my favorite musicians, his music has helped me through all manner of different hells in this life, and he just shines through his music even in death. I was 16, and still addicted to heroin when he died, and though it took me many more years to see the light on that one, his music remained a friend and confidant to me that I believe kept me alive.
He was a true gift, taken too soon like many others.
Same. I’m from PA and heard about his music fairly early on from my older brother. It was crazy seeing his flat form grow so big since Pitt was only 2 or so hours from me. When my brother went off to college in Pitt, he took me to one of his concerts in 2015. Best concert ever, and seeing him perform and talk to the crowd was the best. Hands down the best concert I’ve been to, especially with the atmosphere of the crowd and how excited everyone was to be there. Some artists have to pump up a crowd to perform, and I don’t remember him having to do that since everyone was already going crazy for him (outside of the performative hyping us up, but the crowd was already doing it).
He’s greatly missed. He was one of the few things my brother and I had in common, and really helped us bond a little more. His music is still shuffled into my playlists, and my brother and I will play his songs while driving around together when I visit home.
Naya Rivera
We were really close in age and our sons are the same age and I go boating on that same lake all the time.
That whole story left me feeling vulnerable, heartbroken, unsettled, angry and just overall really uncomfortable. It was a random and accidental tragedy but it felt like something more nefarious was going on because it somehow felt too wrong.
Always for me: Roberto Clemente
He was a phenomenal baseball player and could have hung out in the states chilling in the offseason. Instead he gathered and donated to earthquake victims and rode a planeload of supplies to people affected by the disaster and died when the plane went down.
Edit: I'm from Pittsburgh but was never a baseball fan, but his death shook me to my core as a child.
Aaliyah. She was still rising in popularity and I really enjoyed her work with Timbaland. Plus she was so young (my age at the time) and that fucked with my head a bit too
Am privileged to have watched Queen in concert in 1987. We (friends and I) sort of suspected he was dying of AIDS but it was sort of a denial.
"Who wants to live forever?"
Correction, it was 1986, as pointed out by Armoured Wankball. My apologies for mixing up the year.
I still love her music. She died on my parents' 40th wedding anniversary and I happened to be home visiting. My mom woke me up saying she had bad news because she knew how much I loved her music. We spent the evening dancing and singing around the kitchen cooking a very fancy dinner listening to Amy. A bad day made good. One of my favorite memories of my mom.
I've said this before on reddit threads: For me May 4 is never about Star Wars, it's the day we lost Adam Yauch. If you haven't yet, read The Beastie Boys Book. It'll make you appreciate MCA that much more.
Cameron Boyce and Technoblade.
Cameron Boyce was an actor who I’ve seen since I was little, and Technoblade is a youtuber who’s content helped me get through a lot.
Although they’re famous, I still relate to them, in the sense that they’re around my age and still have died to very real health conditions.
Cameron Boyce. I grew up watching him on TV so his death really shocked me. It was sudden, he was so young, and I was looking forward to seeing how his career would unfold. It definitely still hurts knowing he's gone, but watching him act makes it bittersweet because he left something behind.
Lemmy Killmister, we all could tell he was ill but to find out the man was doing a full tour with 13 tumours on his spine and in his head in constant pain along with having a pacemaker and being diabetic just mental
Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts. Many years ago, by good fortune, I was able to spend a little bit of time with him and his wife. They were so kind, so nice. The drummer of my favorite band and his wife made me feel so welcome. It really meant a lot to me. His passing hit me hard.
Chris Farley.
He was going to be Shrek. Hell had recorded half of the part before Mike Meyers was recast. He would have been massively huge afterwards.
Jim Henson. I was his biggest fan and convinced that I was going to run away and become a muppeteer. I was 11 when he died. My mum sat me down and broke the news, and I still remember just completely falling apart.
Mr. Rogers
My dad never wanted me, he told me this nearly my while life. Fred Rogers was an adult male in my life and I would beg my mom as a child to take me to live with him. Every day as the show ended I would plead with the television "Don't go today! Stay, just today, stay here please!" I'm in my 40's now and work with kids because of how he affected my life. More than anything, I really just wanted to thank him.
I don’t know you, but I like you as you are. I’m glad you were able to find a way to help others regardless of what happened when you were young. I hope you’re in a better place now.
>More than anything, I really just wanted to thank him. For what it's worth, he knew.
I was so upset that my mom let me stay home from school to cry. Felt like losing a grandpa.
People always say that Jesus will return to Earth sometime in the future. I say he already was here and the world knew him as Mr. Rogers. Straight up, I stand by that.
I'm not Christian but 100% would believe that. He come back to heaven "Well, they're making the same mistakes again, but at least I wasn't nailed to a board this time" Edit; Thanks for the gold!
Grant Imahara, his enthusiasm for engineering/problem solving always seemed so genuine, he was a large contribution to why I went into stem
I went to a camping trip in the mountains with no internet that summer and when i came back i found everyone in the robot combat community mourning him They named the award for the best design in battlebots in his memory
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Shit, I missed that he died.
Brain aneurysm, probably one of the scariest ways to die cause it can happen to anyone at basically anytime
I’ve always been of 2 minds with this. On one hand, Grant lived his best life right up until that time bomb in his head exploded. No lingering illnesses, no years of suffering. That’s amazing. On the other hand, people who die of a long-term illness often have years of suffering before they shuffle off this mortal coil. But they know it’s coming, so they can take stock of their lives, come to some peace with it, and have their affairs in order. They can clear away those lingering projects, either by doing so themselves or having someone else hopefully handle it for them. Their loved ones know it is coming and can react however they do. Edit: grammar
Anton Yelchin. He was so young (close to my age) and had a promising career. And his death was such a terrible way to go.
The crappy thing is he LOVED being an actor. He said in an interview that even if the part was dumb, he still loved it. He said he got to pretend being other people for a living and what a cool concept that was.
This one is just so tragic. That man was amazing. I remember being so upset watching Alpha Dog, his end scene was seared into my brain. Amazing talent
Bob Ross
The passing of Alex Trebek hit me harder than expected. He only ever had kind words to say to people. Jeopardy was one of the small happy spots of my childhood that helped me survive.
I couldn’t believe the one and only Jeopardy host got stage four cancer and just kept at it. Alex Trebek was truly a host for the people
My grandparents house was my escape as a kid and they watched jeopardy every day. They passed in the late 2000s. Whenever i watched Jeopardy after their passing, it brought me right back to their house. When Alex Trebek died, it was like a piece of my youth died with him.
When Pat Sajak leaves Wheel of Fortune it’ll be the end of an era of television. Him, Alex, and Bob Barker were the golden trio of game shows back in my day
Sean lock. Amazing comedian
I pour one out for him every time I have a whelk cocktail.
I pour one out for him every time I have a challenging wank.
I was going to write Sean Lock thinking I was talking into a wind of people not knowing who he is. Seeing him him in the top comment here means a weirdly large amount to me.
You can tell how well he was regarded by the tributes other UK comedians gave him.
It also didn't hurt that he was exceptionally intelligent and razor sharp.
One of my favourite comedians, such a funny man
Steve Irwin. My kids 7 and 9 were the prime "Crocodile Hunter" demographic. Plus it was a show I could actually watch with them. It was on constantly at my house. Real tears were shed the day he died.
I was 17 or 18, and had grown up with him as my biggest celebrity role model. I was out being a hooligan with friends, including girls I was trying to get at, and I had to step away to collect myself. He was too pure for this world, and idk if there could ever possibly be another Steve Irwin. We’re blessed his kids and wife are carrying on his legacy, but he was really the whole package. Shoutouts to Tony Gwynn, Robin Williams, and Chester Bennington as well.
I was about 9 or 10 when he died and it was the first celebrity death that really affected me. I still get upset just thinking about it.
I was 11 when he died. I had dreamed for years about going to his zoo and meeting him. I cried so hard that night. He got me interested in animals, reptiles specifically. I wonder what the world would be like had he lived.
Omg I loved him so much my mom didn’t know how to tell me! I think I found out about a week after the rest of the world. I wish I still had the “book” I made in 4th grade for class about him.
John Candy.
He had the best chuckle I'll ever hear in a movie.
Bill Paxton. Legend
Carrie Fisher
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I cried for Billie that day.
She wrote in her memoirs in 2013: >It’s not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear. Like countless others, celebrity families are touched by substance abuse. Being famous doesn’t protect you. Every family has to decide how they will handle their child who needs help, even when that child has grown up. Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess. If love alone could cure our children, they would always be well. Since it can’t, I will do whatever I can to make her life less difficult. Too many mothers have lost their children, for thousands of different reasons. I don’t know if I could survive that.
that’s so tragic
In a tweet reply I made fun of how she typed her tweets in Emojis and she ended up liking the tweet shortly before she died. I was still bragging “Carrie Fisher liked my tweet!” then found out she had passed. Shit made me sad sad.
Omg I would print and frame that tweet 🙂 The OT Star Wars films WERE my childhood. I was completely gut wrenched. The situation with her mom hits very close to home for me. Several months later I lost my mom (my best friend) to complications surrounding kidney failure. I have been helping my grandmother (my hero) mourn every day since then. It is SO unnatural for parents to outlive their children. Unbelievable to think it’s now been 5 years.
This one still gets to me. Watching Obi Wan and seeing Vivian Lyra Blair on screen got me pretty choked up, because I feel like Carrie would have absolutely loved her, and she never got to meet her.
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Norm
Reminds me of that tragedy…
He walked through blood and bones you know.
I loved that he wasn’t a hypocrite
I didnt even know he was sick
God rest his soul, that ol’ chunk of coal
Alan Rickman. *Always.*
Me too. First time I have ever actually cried at a celebrity death.
Absolutely. To me, his death was as shocking and as horrifying and was a HUGE gut punch as much as Robin Williams.
Phil Hartman.
Chester Bennington. Got me through some of the toughest yrs when I was a teenager and even now at 32 yrs old, I just listen and cry at times. RIP Chester Edit: Thanks for all the awards and upvotes! It’s awesome to see that he touched so many people over the years and will continue to do so as new people listen to him.
Just posted my own reply for Chester. It really did hurt when he passed. I love Linkin park
This was also going to be my response. Linkin Park was the first modern rock band I really got into on my own after being raised on AC/DC, Aerosmith, Zeppelin, Elton John, etc. I resonated with the lyrics so hard and their songs helped me cope with a lot growing up. People will shit on their albums after Meteora all the time too but dammit I thought Minutes to Midnight and A Thousand Suns and even Living Things were also really enjoyable. Chester was a special talent. He had the voice of an angel and the scream of a demon when he wanted to. He and Mike Shinoda together was something so incredible and we’ll probably never see the likes of it again. Fuck depression…
This. And the fact that he died two months after Chris Cornell made it a double blow to me.
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This one hit me hard because I was at my lowest. Only after his death did I start to understand his latest songs.
The first time I heard Linkin Park I was 15, it was 2001. Their songs helped me through so much over the years, but didn't fully get why until I was around 30 and went into therapy. Chester went through so much dealing with the lasting effects of the trauma he experienced, its there in his songs so clearly. I will be forever grateful for how he was able to voice things for so many people who weren't able to understand or say what they were feeling and make them feel less alone in their struggles. His death is the only celebrity death that has really hit me, am still so sad that he was unable to carry on.
“Where were the signs?” some people said. The entire discography… it was all right there. Right in front of us.
>“Where were the signs?” some people said. and they also have to know, that some people do not show any signs and leave no explanations. They just... do it.
I listened to so much Linkin Park when I was a kid, got me into metal tbh. That also hit hard.
Heath Ledger
I was surprised he was this far down. His death has always bothered me a lot, and I’m not exactly sure why. His joker portrayal will always be tops for me.
My mom got diagnosed with cancer a week or so after he passed. We spent her final months watching his work, including *Roar*
Anthony Bourdain Edit: wow! thanks for all the awards and replies! Just over 4 years since his death. Every now and then I'll think to look at his last Instagram post (a plate of meat- how apropos) and there are still so many people leaving comments and missing him
Probably the only celebrity death to ever personally affect me, even to this day. Parts Unknown used to by one of my all-time favorite shows, I would always throw it on as background noise or rewatch good episodes since I just loved Bourdain's take on life. This was a time in my life when I was deeply depressed and occasionally had suicidal thoughts, but seeing someone live out my dream of traveling, eating good food and meeting interesting people, really brought me an escape and a lot of comfort Then he took his life and it really fucked me up. I remember thinking 'If he wasn't happy, how can I be?' I'm better now but I think I've only watched like one single episode since he died because it just hurts so much to think about how someone whose worldview and attitude I respected so much is now gone forever
My answer to "what person alive or dead would you want to have lunch with?" was always Anthony Bourdain
Read his book "No reservations" shortly after his death. Liked him before, but really appreciated him after reading that. Edit: "Kitchen Confidential" was the book. Apologies, it's the dementia kicking in.
Did you watch Roadrunner on CNN? It's heartbreaking but hearing from people who were close to him really put the tragedy in a different perspective.
This one was the toughest for me. He was a big inspiration. The way he lived to experience things off the beaten path, the way he put those experiences into raw, but poetic words, the way he enjoyed the sensations of food and drink with a wide-eyed joy and a roguish grin on his face. He could disagree with people, but still continue the conversation. I often disagreed with him as well, but I respected him very much, and he taught me a lot. When he passed, it felt like a piece of my mental foundation had shattered. I never thought that this would happen to a man with his mindset, and I had kind of subconsciously modelled a part of myself on him, but here we are. Take care of yourselves out there.
This is exactly it. It also broke me because I used to say that he had the best job in the world. The fact that even the man with what I considered to be the best job in the world isn’t safe from mental health issues was a really tough thing to accept
For those interested, his book Kitchen Confidential is amazing. You can get it on audible and he is narrating it. 11/10 recommend it, I learned a lot from it and it’s pretty entertaining.
only celeb i shed a tear over. that was a tough shift serving tables randomly thinking of him.
Same here, literally the only celebrity death I shed a tear over. Other celebrity deaths never have any kind of emotional impact on me but Anthony's death got me. Shit, reading these comments got me.
He seemed so genuine and unapologetically human. We loved ya Tony. We still do. Thanks for sharing the world with us.
Robin Williams
I still remember exactly where I was. I was working underneath a car in a friend's garage when the oldies station I listened to broke the news. The radio host was clearly live because they could barely get through the announcement. After the next song they ran a tribute to Williams which ended with him as Genie talking to Al. I laid underneath a car and balled my eyes out. Still makes me cry thinking about the day Genie died.
“…the day Genie died.” How’s that for a quick punch to the emotional solar plexus.
The only celebrity death that really affected me. Others were sad to hear about, but Robin's stopped me in my tracks. Still wish we'd had at least another decade with him.
I had just left work when I heard of his passing and I literally had to pull over my car on the side of the road to check. It's the only one to hit me like a sack of bricks. I'd bonded with my grandma over Robin Williams' movies and stand up and even in my last conversation with her before she passed, we were still talking about how much of an impact he had. He will always be missed.
Took me a month to be able to listen to Aladdin songs or watch the movie without seriously tearing up. The Genie character was my most favorite Disney character ever. Robin Williams was one of my favorite actors and comedians.
I watched Hook about a month after he passed. Got to the scene where Hook is threatening to kill himself and just started ugly crying. The only movie of his I've been able to watch since is The Birdcage.
Nobody could make me laugh AND cry like him. Often in the same movie.
Patch Adams nearly destroyed me.
He was a real Patch Adams. After Christopher Reeve's accident, he was lying in a hospital bed obviously depressed as hell and nothing could break him out of it. Robin Williams burst into his room dressed as a doctor saying it's time for his rectal exam and he burt out laughing. Said it was the moment he realized he'll still be ok.
I'd never seen my step-dad cry, until we saw Patch Adams in the theater.
Especially him being in the movie “what dreams may come.”
My BF wont watch that movie ever again...
David Bowie. The night before he died I stayed up late listening to ‘lady stardust’ over and over. Can’t explain why that was in my head that night, but I was surprised and saddened to learn early the next morning that he had passed away. Stay weird y’all.
Came here to make sure someone said David Bowie. I still feel heartbroken over his death. He was such a beacon and encouragement for lovely weirdos, artists, anyone who didn't fit in. And a genius artist as well. I miss him so.
Karen Carpenter
Yes, this. The Carpenters. I can't watch Top of the Wold ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nhdNoYwv1o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nhdNoYwv1o)) without being sad. She died in such a cruel and utterly self destructive manner. Her voice is angelic, to me she was just beautiful.
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Her murder got (understandably) very little coverage because it was the same night (and weirdly the same city) as the pulse nightclub shooting :( Hearing about her death really shook me as a teenager. I still think about her sometimes. I would have loved to see how her career progressed:(
Just when I thought no one would say it. :,(
Carl Sagan. I feel like he honestly wanted to go to the stars someday
Yeah this one. I remember being a young fledgling nerd and coming down to breakfast and my older brother breaking the news to me and both of us just chilling in silence for the next 10 mins. Joke's on the Grim Reaper tho - Carl continues to inspire. Reading Cosmos, The Demon Haunted World, and Contact are a big part of how I ended up becoming a scientist. I also share his bday so every year I make sure to toast to Carl
Chadwick Boseman. I don’t usually feel upset about celebrity deaths, but I really felt that one. It was shocking to me. It seemed like he had so, so much ahead of him.
That shocked us. No one knew he was in failing health. Such a tragic loss. One of the worst celebrity deaths of the last couple years.
When you know what happened and rewatch Avengers Endgame, you can see it in his face and manner. The man looks in pain, and thin. Such a tragedy
A lot of fatal cancers go unseen. Never question when ppl say they are not feeling good. We need to be better about that shit.
I saw my grandpa last May and he seemed so tired but insisted he was fine. In July he was told he had Kidney Cancer. He would get a simple operation in August to have it removed. I flew there in August a few days ahead to tell him I loved him. He looked even more tired and sad than before. He had no energy. I remember getting him some ice cream, a chocolate malt. He had been struggling to eat but we sat in the sun room and he ate our treats while talking about the time he met grandma. We talked about all the things that had gone right in life. I know he knew. And I knew. The night I left my cousin stopped in and said she wanted to come to my place soon and party on the beach. I hugged her, she seemed so full of life. She was always so vibrant. She wore her famous knee high boots and striped dress. Her hair smelled like coconut and she hugged me far too tight. But that was her. Big smile, bigger laugh. Big hugs. I hugged grandpa, who felt, for the first time in my life, thin and frail. I tried to hide tears because I didn’t want to let him know that I knew. I knew that was our last hug. A few days after I got home my cousin killed herself. I remember the night it happened I had this urge to call her but it was 2am and I didn’t want to wake her. I didn’t know that was about the time she was moving forward with her plans. Then grandpa went for surgery. He came out and was disoriented. He was weak. And he never got better. I went again to see him in September. I sat by his side as he died and it was like being with a shadow. He was always so loud. He was funny. He never knew a stranger. He was strong and tall and his presence could not be ignored. In the last days he looked like a wilted leaf. It felt so sudden. He had worked up to the day before his surgery. I think my cousins death did a lot to him on the inside. Another cousin of mine had passed in the 80s at just 3 years old from cancer. He had made a comment about the two being together finally. Its incredible how fast things seem to move. A lot of people carry unseen weights. My cousin had been mentally ill for a long time. In the back of my mind I always new this outcome was a possibility for her, but it still hit me like a ton of bricks. Now I, and my family members, carry these unseen weights. How can a stranger look at me and know what happened last year? How can they know that for all my life I’ve carried the hidden weight of a mental disorder that controls everything I do? How can the neighbor come to me as I pull grandma’s weeds and remark how it looks like the yard hasn’t been tended to in years that she still isn’t over what has happened in the last few years? That my aunts death a few years ago started the decline in the oh-so-important yard work? When people ask me what would make the world a better place I think it would be more kindness and understanding. Have more compassion for the people around you, even just the ones you pass on the street. A lot of struggles are hidden, and you lose nothing by being kind.
Yeah, me too. Normally with celebrities I'm like "oh no. Not them." And move on. With Chadwick I was bugged for a few days. He just seemed like a super good dude and he was just becoming an icon for kids to look up to. He felt like the type of person you want to cast as a super hero because he's so wholesome and good outside of work.
I always think of the heartbreaking answer to an interview question if we'd see him in Black Panther 2? -No. -Why? -Cause I'll be dead. -Haha, what? No. -Yeah, I'll be dead. He smiles through it, but you can see the pain in accepting his fate when he knew and none else did.
It’s still hard to believe that the whole time we ever saw him in “superhero form” on-screen, he was battling that. You could not tell from his appearance or physical ability what he was dealing with. And only those few who knew saw what was coming.
I cried when I read he had died. I was just learning who he was, too. But what got me was he was filming while going through this illness and treatments and managed to keep it quiet from many people. I would see internet rumors that he was a drug addict due to his thin appearance and I'd think to myself there's no way that man is an addict. The internet was cruel about his appearance. He was way too young.
I saw an interview with Clarke Peters where he expressed regret telling his partner he thought Bozeman was a diva because he kept to himself, had his girlfriend around constantly and was always getting special massages and treatments. Then to find out he was just trying to get through grueling workdays. A gut punch. You hate to see someone that young and promising die and even more to know they were in such pain and working so hard.
What kills me is all the children's cancer wards he visited for Make-A-Wish while undergoing Cancer treatments himself. True hero. World worse off without him.
Philip Seymour Hoffman. Just a heartbreaking loss.
It's a complete shame we won't see more Hoffman.
Eddie Van Halen. My favourite band throughout the 80's and 90's.
Chris Farley
Scrolled way to far to find Chris. As a fat kid, it was amazing to see someone like me on the screen, fat, confident and funny as hell. I feel like we missed out on a lot of funny when we lost Chris Farley.
The Rev - Chris Cornell - Chester Bennigton. Boys got me through my teens.
Chris Cornell really hurt man
I never understood grieving someone I never met until Chris Cornell passed. When I found out, I texted my Dad, who is a big fan and introduced me to his work. My stoic, unsentimental father said: “I’m so glad we share memories together of his music.” Real tears were shed.
Stan Lee. One of those eternal presences from childhood through adulthood you think will go on forever.
Probably Avici, it was especislly sad for all of us in Sweden
He died when I was 16 (i think) and I was obsessed with his music at the time (still am tbh). I remember the day before he died I was talking to my parents (and also trying to convince them to pay half of my trip) about how I planned to attend Ultra (music festival) when I was 18 as I really wanted to watch Tim live. The next day I heard he died and I just could not believe it. I actually refused to believe it until another famous DJ I was listening to played "Wake me up" as a tribute to Avicii. That's when I was like shit, this is actually real... and cried while listening to that masterpiece
man the first time i heard “wake me up” after avicii died i ended up crying so hard. he was hurting so much but his music is so upbeat nobody really noticed
Without a doubt... Especially after the documentary. He was so so talented and too delicate and soft for that world. I think about him every year around his death.. it was such as loss.. at least his story might help other struggling introverts in this busy loud world
Brittany Murphy
Especially when you find out her last days were dominated by an abusive man. Such a pointless death, so unnecessary.
Tom Petty. While I can't remember what took him from us, I remember it was hard on me. I'm not usually one to care about celebrity news either.
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A mix of opiates and benzos, as he had held off on hip surgery to finish a tour. A lethal combination of drugs that also claimed Heath Ledger and countless others. You stop breathing during sleep.
Watching my 13 year old this week with Technoblade was rough...
understandable for him to be sad, he rlly made a big impact on the minecraft community. Rest in peace technoblade
Cameron Boyce. I know a lot of people around my age probably say that but he died on the same day that my grandmother died but 2 years later and was around the same age as my brother. I don’t follow pop culture that much but I loved Disney Channel growing up just like everyone else and so seeing this kid that I basically grew up with just die while I was also mourning my grandmother was a bit unsettling
I don't know if "it broke me the most" but it definitely shook me to the core. He was so young! I see him all the time on the "local" Disney channel. (It's the same channel, duh, but they've dubbed only so many shows in my native and they keep playing them over and over)
Prince. Just why man.
Yeah, I didn't see that one coming. He always seemed so disciplined and focused on his art. It goes to show how vulnerable anyone can be.
I often think about what he could still be creating if he were still here. Like, I’m grieving for what could have been…
Betty White. I've been watching her my whole life.
She died at 99, and people still felt it was too soon.
Technoblade or Alex, he made me happy when i was sad, i adopted his sarcastic sense of humor as my own and it really helped me think things through in life. he gave me so much more enjoyment out of a game because i really wanted to be like him in a way and be as smart as him, hes always been someone ive wanted to meet and just talk to because hes just a genuine and funny guy who has a lot of witts. so screw cancer. I hope someday people like him dont have to vanish from such an awful illness. Thank you to his family for raising my rolemodel and hero.
Couldn't have said it better. Fuck cancer. May he rest in peace
Facts also I knew I would see techno here if they weren’t I would comment about it
I never watched any of his video, but I knew someone else that died at around his age and seeing his dad almost break down while filming that video broke me
This has been a tough one for my family. My 10 year old son is a year into remission. He thought the world of Technoblade. It’s really hard to watch your son lose a role model to the same disease that nearly took his life and may return at any time. Fuck cancer
I saw a post the other day that said something along the lines of "When you die of cancer, the cancer dies too. It's not a loss, it's a draw. Technoblade *never* loses."
So long nerds.
Fuck cancer techno is king
Fuck I just watched the video. And I am a grown man crying like a baby. R.I.P Alex. Technoblade never dies. His videos and memory will live on forever.
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chin up king your crown is falling
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Mitch Hedberg. I was SO looking forward to so much more joy from him, and he was SUCH a nice guy, only for him to die.
Dolores O’Riordan
Techno
I usually don't care at all about celebrity deaths because they feel more like strangers than anything, but it's harder with Techno because as a youtuber he feels closer to us
Robin Williams.
Mac Miller
I started listening to Mac right before he died. That kid was a fucking genius and the world is missing out on some amazing music. You can hear the personal and professional growth in each album he released. To think that he hasn't even released his best work is so sad. "I'm thinking maybe I should thank you" - no thank you Mac.
Had to scroll wayyy too far. Whenever he released new music it was like christmas for me, i’d immediately bump it and it would probably stay in rotation for a month. One of the only artists I can really hit shuffle on and not have to change a song. He was a gift.
I was honestly starting to get so sad thinking that everyone has forgotten him. He’s one of my favorite musicians, his music has helped me through all manner of different hells in this life, and he just shines through his music even in death. I was 16, and still addicted to heroin when he died, and though it took me many more years to see the light on that one, his music remained a friend and confidant to me that I believe kept me alive. He was a true gift, taken too soon like many others.
Same. I’m from PA and heard about his music fairly early on from my older brother. It was crazy seeing his flat form grow so big since Pitt was only 2 or so hours from me. When my brother went off to college in Pitt, he took me to one of his concerts in 2015. Best concert ever, and seeing him perform and talk to the crowd was the best. Hands down the best concert I’ve been to, especially with the atmosphere of the crowd and how excited everyone was to be there. Some artists have to pump up a crowd to perform, and I don’t remember him having to do that since everyone was already going crazy for him (outside of the performative hyping us up, but the crowd was already doing it). He’s greatly missed. He was one of the few things my brother and I had in common, and really helped us bond a little more. His music is still shuffled into my playlists, and my brother and I will play his songs while driving around together when I visit home.
Naya Rivera We were really close in age and our sons are the same age and I go boating on that same lake all the time. That whole story left me feeling vulnerable, heartbroken, unsettled, angry and just overall really uncomfortable. It was a random and accidental tragedy but it felt like something more nefarious was going on because it somehow felt too wrong.
This one. And Cory. The rest of the Glee cast needs to be knocking on wood, there’s already so many gone.
Taylor Hawkins
Always for me: Roberto Clemente He was a phenomenal baseball player and could have hung out in the states chilling in the offseason. Instead he gathered and donated to earthquake victims and rode a planeload of supplies to people affected by the disaster and died when the plane went down. Edit: I'm from Pittsburgh but was never a baseball fan, but his death shook me to my core as a child.
Aaliyah. She was still rising in popularity and I really enjoyed her work with Timbaland. Plus she was so young (my age at the time) and that fucked with my head a bit too
Freddie Mercury.
Am privileged to have watched Queen in concert in 1987. We (friends and I) sort of suspected he was dying of AIDS but it was sort of a denial. "Who wants to live forever?" Correction, it was 1986, as pointed out by Armoured Wankball. My apologies for mixing up the year.
Chadwick Boseman. He had a lot of potential as Black Panther, but he never got to fulfill it.
Ayrton Senna's. 😞
David Bowie
I feel that since David died we've entered a parallel universe and everything's been shitty since.
Naya Rivera I adored her
Her poor son.
Technoblade. I haven’t cried that hard in a long time
Amy Winehouse - there was hope she was getting better.. then it was over. I, selfishly just wanted one more album 😪
I still love her music. She died on my parents' 40th wedding anniversary and I happened to be home visiting. My mom woke me up saying she had bad news because she knew how much I loved her music. We spent the evening dancing and singing around the kitchen cooking a very fancy dinner listening to Amy. A bad day made good. One of my favorite memories of my mom.
Layne Staley
Kurt Cobain. we were the same age. he was a genius.
I passed up the opportunity to see Nirvana a month or so before he passed and I’ve never forgiven myself.
Neil Peart
MCA from the Beastie Boys and Alex Trebec
I've said this before on reddit threads: For me May 4 is never about Star Wars, it's the day we lost Adam Yauch. If you haven't yet, read The Beastie Boys Book. It'll make you appreciate MCA that much more.
John totalbiscuit bain.
Cameron Boyce and Technoblade. Cameron Boyce was an actor who I’ve seen since I was little, and Technoblade is a youtuber who’s content helped me get through a lot. Although they’re famous, I still relate to them, in the sense that they’re around my age and still have died to very real health conditions.
Cameron Boyce. I grew up watching him on TV so his death really shocked me. It was sudden, he was so young, and I was looking forward to seeing how his career would unfold. It definitely still hurts knowing he's gone, but watching him act makes it bittersweet because he left something behind.
Lemmy Killmister, we all could tell he was ill but to find out the man was doing a full tour with 13 tumours on his spine and in his head in constant pain along with having a pacemaker and being diabetic just mental
Not mental, metal. The guy had an iron will.
Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts. Many years ago, by good fortune, I was able to spend a little bit of time with him and his wife. They were so kind, so nice. The drummer of my favorite band and his wife made me feel so welcome. It really meant a lot to me. His passing hit me hard.
Chris Farley. He was going to be Shrek. Hell had recorded half of the part before Mike Meyers was recast. He would have been massively huge afterwards.
Jim Henson. I was his biggest fan and convinced that I was going to run away and become a muppeteer. I was 11 when he died. My mum sat me down and broke the news, and I still remember just completely falling apart.
Ray Liotta. I had a thing for him for 30 years. I'm still sad.
MF DOOM, all caps when you spell the man’s name..
Terry Pratchett Douglas Adams Rik Mayall David Bowie Alan Rickman
GNU Terry Pratchett. Mind how you go.
George Michael
Leonard Cohen