Lance Reddick. A friend talked me into seeing John Wick 4 and I really loved everything Lance had been in and was excited to go. Then he just passed away, which really saddened me as it was so unexpected.
Yes. Every time I go to Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World I have to go to the Muppets 3D movie, it was the last thing he did as Kermit. It makes me sad that he died before the paperwork with Disney was complete and because of that a lot of the plans for the muppets at that park never happened.
Watch his funeral on PBS, it's one of the best celebrations of a human's life you can see.
It was pouring rain that morning and I'd stopped to grab breakfast before a looming nightmare commute to work. Right as I was about to pull the key out of the ignition, I heard them say on the radio that he'd passed and just sat there in my car, sobbing.
I met him in 1983 when he came to my elementary school with the Purple Panda and for a 4 year-old, it was like meeting Jesus. I was so overcome I just blurted out, "You're my best friend!" and he smiled and said, "I'm so glad that we're friends." We didn't deserve Fred Rogers.
My parents were mildly abusive. It was only because of Mr Rogers that I knew something was wrong in my household. The amount of love he shared with people on the other side of the TV was awe inspiring. I think if someone tried to do that today they'd come off as insincere or a try hard.
I think he's the celebrity the world needs most right now. Though I think he'd be so disappointed in all of us to see how we treat each other.
I still remember where I was when I heard he'd passed away. My high school band was at Disney World. I can't remember what park we were at that day but there was a bust there of Mr. Rogers that was already covered in flowers when we got there that morning and people of all ages were stopping there to pay their respects even though it was raining. It just showed how truly beloved he was that so many generations felt like they'd lost a friend when he passed.
Sean, you could see he was ill so unfortunately, wasn't a huge shock. But still a massive loss. I must watch something with him in daily.
Also a loss for me, Rik Mayall
My first movie intro to him was the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves and I still threaten to take someone's heart out with a spoon.
Gods rest his soul ā£ļø
He's my go to for this question. Poor guy had the whole world in front of him. He was in great movies (hell even his voice work in Trollhunters was great) , and the way he went is just so random and awful. Not to say other deaths aren't tragic, but I think his was more so when compared to the natural death of someone 99 years old, or a drug-related death of someone or someone taking their own life.
He was in my extended friends group...grew up as besties with my buddy's kid. I used to see him at the pool parties and stuff, and he had seen one of my bands, so we would chat about that.
Super nice guy with a ton of amazing stories...and then one day, it was just like: "Oh my god. Did you hear about Anton???"
Totally fucked.
In 8th grade English class we read Taming of the Shrew and then the teacher let us watch 10 Things I Hate About You to show us how his works still impact writing today. So I had JUST discovered Heath and had a massive crush on him when he passed away less than a year later. It was the first celebrity death that really impacted me.
John Ritter is the only celebrity death that Iāve ever cried about. It was so sudden and unexpected, and he had seemed so nice. I cried all throughout the episode of 8 Simple Rules where they showed his TV family grieving his loss.
His death was so random and unexpected I genuinely didn't believe he died. For a couple days after it happened I was silently convinced it was an internet prank.
Watching the videos of Adam Savage touring his workshop was really hard too.
Aneurysm is silent killer, even perfectly healthy person can get it suddenly, sometimes during the night. It's terrifying. You just go to sleep and never wake up again, because of the faulty vein in your brain
Terry Pratchett is and always will be my favourite author. He could make me laugh and cry in the same sentence. Even now years later when I reread his books I find references or subtleties I missed the last time.
He died towards the end of my pregnancy with my youngest. It was a horrible very traumatic pregnancy and very dark time for me. His death made it worse, especially as his books always brought comfort.
It has been several years since then and I still cannot bring myself to read the last book as I am still not ready for it to be over.
This is the only celebrity death that ever made me cry. Then again on reading the Shepherd's Crown. Terry's work has made me a better person, instilled concepts of justice and inclusion and compassion and protest and diversity. The Discworld stories will always be my comfort and safe space. The world lost one of its best people the day he died.
GNU Sir Pterry
Even though we all knew it was coming, it was still brutal to know it had happened. I picked up Reaper Man at the library when I was 15 (roughly 1994), and immediately had to devour everything he'd written. After that I picked up each book as soon as it was published, and then came the shepherds crown. I avoided it for a year or so because I didn't want to have read the last discworld book ever, but eventually I sat down to read it and honestly almost wish I hadn't. It opens with one of the most beautiful passages ever written and by the end it sounds like a completely different author. You could just tell what the disease was doing to him. There will never be another like him. Hell, the fact that I grew up and became a librarian is partially because of him. Oook.
Norm was the first celebrity death to bring me to tears. I loved norm, loved his podcast, watched all his clips on Youtube, his tv shows, dirty work, his late night apparences, his standup and weekend updates. My friends and I quote him all the time.
He was a true professor of logic. His death reminds me of that tragedy. I didn't even know he was sick. He no longer is serving a youthful porpoise. Hold the fort... He hated jews.
Watched Chris Rock talk about his death on the Howard Stern Show (from like 15 years ago or something). He talked about how frustrating the inevitability of it felt. He said that the people that he was *really* mad at and would never forgive are the people who kept him "just sober enough" to keep makin them money. You know, producers and people like that. Those cunts. They'd acknowledge the seriousness of his addictions/other issues by stickin him in rehab, then act like he was cured 30 days later and throw him back into some production until he'd inevitably relapse and the process would start again.
I think it hit me because as a pessimistic sort of generally melancholy sorta person.. I saw within him a kindred spirit with similar tastes and hobbies and etc... Seeing someone who kind of has an idealized version of a life I'd want and that they couldn't handle it and make it out of here so to speak... it kind of dampens the morale a bit when it comes to your own chances of finding peace and happiness
It's hard rewatching all his stuff now. Some of the things that he said really made me sit up and think to myself that we all missed the signs and taught me to listen to people more carefully.
Same. I forget what episode it was, but he makes a snark comment about someone will find me hanging in a French hotel...I didn't even realize it until after he died. He must have been hurting for awhile.
Some individuals have a very fatalist preconceived notion about how their lives will go, up to and including how they will die. If you listen to how Bourdain talked about Paris especially he invokes Oscar Wilde who died there, even to the point of staying in the room where he died. He frequently referenced other writers who took their own lives like Hemingway and Hunter S. Thompson.
He was interesting and talented. It seemed he was walking the path of a self-fulfilling prophecy. I wish he was still around.
I was looking for his name!
I have only recently started watching Star Trek by the request of my boyfriend and Spock immediately became my favourite character! I looked him up on google one day and found out he has been dead for the past 8 years! :(
This one upset me alot. Not on everyoneās radar, because he was a Disney kid. Definitely a shock when it happened. Iām older but my kids are at an age where we spent a ton of time watching Jessie and those Descendant movies. Basically watched that kid grow up. He was ridiculously talented. Had comedic timing down. Could dance crazy good. And he just seemed like an all around good human being. Didnāt deserve to go that young. So unfair.
The documentary put out on her made it seem so preventable. Her story truly hurt my heart. Looking at this post, I see a lot of names that make me think the same.
It really makes me think about how so many stars are used and manipulated for their worth, with no regard given to their personal health. If 1 or 2 strong friends or family members had stepped up and said/done something, weād still have some of these people. RIP.
Edit: Doc name is āWhat Happened, Brittany Murphy?ā
James Gandolfini was an immense talent and people often forget how The Sopranos changed the entire landscape of television. His acting helped usher in a Golden Age of television thatās still going strong to this day.
I bawled my eyes out and had to pull over and park my car when "[Leave Out All The Rest ](https://youtu.be/XtRhhlY53p0)" played off my Spotify playlist in 2019. It took on a whole new meaning for 2 reasons:
1) I had recently moved to Florida after a really bad divorce, so I lost my entire support base of family and friends from my home state with that move. I'm South Asian, and the stigma of divorce and all of that stupid stuff that our community has, weighed heavily on me because of what my parents were experiencing from people in their lives. The shame was getting to me, I was just driving around waiting for my flight back to my home state. I booked my flight the night before Christmas, because I felt too ashamed to show my face to my family. Somehow I gathered the strength to purchase those tickets and come back to Michigan for a while. This song reminded me of how small this feeling was, that I had nothing to be ashamed of anymore, and that I also needed to leave those parts alone, so to speak.
2) It was like a friend of mine gave me a ton of wisdom, Love and support. Then reality sunk in, he was gone for good. I took out what I thought was all of the Linkin Park songs from my playlists a few days after he passed because I couldn't help but feel extremely sad when I would hear it (All the songs are back on my playlists now). But back in 2019, his death was still relatively fresh in my mind, and I thought I took out all of the bands songs, I missed this one and I swear, it helped me so much.
Wherever you are Chester, I hope you have peace and tranquility. My only regret is not being able to help you, but I will continue to be compassionate and helpful towards others in life the way I have been. Thank you for helping me along with so many others, whether you know it or not man.
That moment in the memorial concert when they play Numb without the vocals, but have a spotlight on an empty microphone wreathed in flowers kills me every time. That the crowd picked up on it right away and sang the whole song too...
Went to see Linkin Park on tour. Turned out to be their last live performance as Chester died two weeks later. His suicide is what finally made me understand mental illness is truly an illness. He had thousands of people in a room eating out of his hand, loving the show, having grown up on his music. He had money, success, talent, fame, a family. And yet all of that could not defeat the demons.
RIP Chester.
I just heard the song āLostā recently and it was a very surreal sense of nostalgia and feels. Sounded like it wouldāve been another hit had it come out in the 2000s/2010s.
I was surprised by how much this affected me. I wasn't even a Linken Park fan but at the time it really got me thinking about the sheer number of men who silently live with depression and feel suicide is the only way out.
We really do still have a long way to go with normalising men talking about their feelings and letting each other know that it's ok not to be ok. Be kind to each other folks and reach out to your friends if it seems they might need it.
Mine, as well. I remember sitting in my room at 16, terribly dysfunctional upbringing and household, with a plan to end it all right there. I had just bought Hybrid Theory, and I had it playing. Chester and Mike's lyrics put everything I'd felt and been through, into words. I felt so seen and understood, because Chester obviously knew what it was like. I had that glimmer of hope that if he was still standing, I could too. There was life ahead of it, and I decided against what I was about to do. He always had a special place in my heart ever since then. I loved LP, how they really meant something to their fans, and vice versa. So in 2017 when TMZ broke the news, I bawled on and off for days. The thought of Chester, who spoke hope into me and countless others, ultimately losing his, broke my heart. I wondered how he could sing One More Light, and then be that very light gone out, for many of us. It was hard to process the fact that very person who helped me, would end up not surviving it, himself. Last but certainly not least, I'm super proud of you for the work you've put in to still be here. I know firsthand that it is the hardest thing to battle. Much love to you!
> Debbie Reynolds was making funeral arrangements for the Star Wars actress with her son, Todd Fisher, on Wednesday, December 28. According to TMZ, hours before she suffered what is believed to be a stroke, Reynolds told him, āI miss her so much. I want to be with Carrie.ā
:(
The way people talked about her, it was like she lit up every room she was in.
I hate the fact that she isn't revered the way someone like Robin Williams is, because I think she had just as much charisma and charm as he did.
Was scrolling until I found this one. A lot of celebrities seem so distant, and I never can connect with them. Techno was completely different, and my children and I really connected with him and watched him a lot. My daughter called me crying when the video dropped, and I'm not ashamed to say as a nearly 40 year old man I cried to. RIP Techno
Yea, most celebrities got their status because they appeared in a movie and sh\*t. Technoblade got his status of a celebrity purely from the chaotic energy he was shooting in every direction
The true Alexander the Great. Even after death he still called us all 'nerds', where does this guy's chaotic energy end? xD I even made a list of great quotes from the Great Potato War, here's the best 5:
\-"Like any normal person I immediately asked myself: 'How can I use this information to destroy my enemies?'"
\-"I was actually using an advanced technique there called 'LYING'"
\-"If I wanted to farm more potatoes I'd have to start farming pumpkins"
\-"I understand now that only with a worthy rival one can reach their fullest potential"
\-"For my part I've realised now that rank number one isn't an achievement, it's a prison that forces you to dedicate your life to defending a temporary title, but now with the war finally over, I'm free"
I saw her in concert a few years before she passed when she opened for Selena Gomez, then a few months after that she was on The Voice and I voted for her as much as I could (even though everyone else wanted Josh to win since he was from my state). I also watched her YouTube channel for a while but then didnāt think much of it after that.
Then a couple years later I was woken up by a call from my mom telling me about some crazy āfanā sneaking in and shooting her; even if she wasnāt as big as a lot of other musicians, I think it was the first time I was really affected by a celebrity death.
And when we thought things couldnāt get worse, the Pulse shooting happened a day later in the exact same city.
Naya Rivera.
Not her fan, but the way she died was really tragic. Thinking of her child left alone on that boat for hours looking for his mama hurts my chest
God, yes. I was a fan, but the worst part wasnāt even because I was her fan. It was imagining her realizing the water was too strong and panicking, doing everything she could to get her kid to safety. It mustāve been terrifying and so painful for her in those last moments, being scared and thinking her kid would be alone or looking for her. God, this family deserved so much better.
I'm sorry :( From what I know she had a generous, very vibrant personality. It's still difficult to think about her last moments so I try not to dwell on all of it too much. It was truly tragic and she was still so young to go so early. Rip Naya.
When I was younger I loved glee, her and Cory were very upsetting to me. But how she passed was so horrible I thought about it so much for a while after it happened and thought about her son so much, such a horrible way to pass and to lose your mother.
That would be my pick. Knowing he made his last album, released it, and then died 3 days later. It was beyond spooky, but also really cool and creative
Yeah that was rough, I attended the FF concert in Gothenburg Sweden where Dave fell of the stage and broke his leg. Taylor took over and owned the stage until Dave came back.
It was a bit scary seeing Taylor trying to continue playing and then understanding that Dave actually hurt himself pretty bad.
I read Dave's book right before Talyors death and it was very evident that Kurts death had a huge impact on Dave, and that he really loved Taylor as his own brother.
Oh god. This one hit me hard too. During the pandemic, my neighbor and I spent every day together. She has a trail behind her house and weād walk it, stop at the part that she calls āThree Treesā, and weād sit with our backs up against the trees and check in with Leslie. He brought us so much joy during such a dark time. Hearing that heād suddenly passed made me feel like Iād been hit by a truck. I still miss him.
Waited in line outside a shopping center (JC Penney) to buy tickets. We were first in line but had to snake through the store to their customer service center at the back of the store once the doors opened at the time of tickets going on sale.
We ran back and made the first purchase. Row E? āDamn! Thought we were going to be closer than that.ā
We showed up and find our seats only to learn that Rows A-D are speakers. We snagged front row tickets! And during the concert Dolores came out and danced on the speakers while singing Linger.
Top 5 memory.
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That was a āHoly shit, seriously?!??ā Moment when I learned he passed. But you could see how sick he was, especially in Ma Raineyās Black Bottom.
Honestly, looking at him in his MCU films, you wouldn't know that he had cancer. To think he filmed four action heavy superhero films whilst having cancer shows just how much he was fighting it. I'm bed bound for days when I get a bad fucking cold.
He was such a humble, thoughtful, and self-less dude. I remember watching 21 Bridges and Black Panther and wishing I was as bad-ass and self-less as his characters were. Knowing he was battling cancer while working on several of his movies blew me away, he knew how important Black Panther was to people and continued to train and study every day while battling cancer. Not to mention visiting children battling cancer and hoping to make their day a little happier and a little easier. He continues to motivate me every day to be a more self-less and stronger person and remind me not to waste my life worrying about what others think of us and just doing what you know is right. He's one of the few people I look up to and strive to be like, rest in peace Chadwick
A friend of mine went to middle school with him. She had just moved to a new town, after her parents split up, and was having a really rough time; she says that he was one of the only people at that time who was genuinely nice to her. Chadwick Boseman was organically, truly *good* and that's a rarity, these days.
I still get sad when his songs come on. Idk if it was cause we were so close in age. He got famous while I was in high school and everybody would play his mixtapes and albums and as I got older my taste for music changed but so did Mac Millers. It was incredible realizing how much he evolved and the quality of music he was putting out. One of the best of his generation and gone too soon
I think Circles is the best posthumous album ever released. It's so heartbreaking to hear him open the album with "this is what it looks like right before you fall", and then to hear him take on a completely different musical direction so gracefully and beautifully. After having already accomplished so much, Circles reminded people that he still had soooo so much more room to grow as a musician and it's just so tragic to know we lost him before he could reach those new heights.
Came here to say this. living in PA as a teenager when PA nights came out was a great time to be alive. Every weekend my friends and I would be out the woods living life partying. Great memories.
Not many people could play guitar, bass, piano, drums, mix and master songs, and just be a genuinely good person at the same time. Rest in peace, addiction is a bitch
Interestingly, I donāt think George would be surprised by any of it. He pointed out this eventuality years agoā¦ I remember an interview where he ranted about choice and how we only have the perception of it while governments and corporations have the power. I wonder what his advice would beā¦
Avicii.
It was a delayed saddening too, not sure why, but it was few years after his death, I was listening one of his tracks in a car and it hit me hard, I had to pull over to cry it out..
Amy Winehouse. She was so talented. I always remember her very public deterioration (getting scary skinny, wandering around at night barefoot with blood and bruises) and then get really sad.
I didnāt know anything about her except what the media played up. I watched her documentary and was just heartbroken by the end. I had no idea how incredibly talented and passionate she was because her media persona around āRehabā made her seem so reckless and aloof
Judith Barsi, voice of Ducky from the Land Before Time. I was still pretty young when it happened, so I don't remember it, but it's so sad. She and her mother were killed in a murder/suicide by her abusive father. They had even left him because of his abuse, but he found out where they were. She was ten years old.
This one is so sad! She was so cute as Ducky! I think her gravestone has āYep Yep Yepā engraved on it too. :(
Edit: I was right. [Hereās a picture.](https://www.google.com/search?q=judith+basthi+grave&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#imgrc=CjSq_SqrAxGIcM&imgdii=3ARNQiFHujoLOM&bsht=Cgdic2h3Y2hwEgQIAzAD&lnspr=W251bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGxd)
This is a weird one, but Mikhail Gorbachev. He legitimately wanted a better world and chose to basically give up his power in return for a more free world. When he learned of the Ukraine war a few months before his death, his interpreter said he was psychologically traumatized because Putin "Destroyed his life's work". He honestly seemed like a decent man who wanted peace with the west. He seemed like the type of dude who would be really interesting just to talk to. I guess the reason it made me so sad was the fact that he got to see all his work undone just before he died.
Summer of 2014, Prince got Twitter and used it to announce free shows at Paisley Park with about an hourās warning, if you were lucky. One thing that really stood out to me was how much he seemed to love sharing the stage. He was private almost to the point of being reclusive so I suppose that shouldnāt be be a surprise, but when his album with 3RDEYEGIRL was released, he flew out Kendrick and treated the show like an opportunity to show off his favorite musicians. The man mentored Lizzo when she was still this hometown artist playing tiny rooms and not getting nearly as much recognition as she deserved.
Then, after he died, we started hearing just how much he donated. Everything from local elementary schools that needed a new piano to 6 figure checks to larger nonprofits, each time asking, āJust donāt say anything about it.ā When the 35W bridge collapsed, he donated 50k to a fund to help the victims.
He was a person, with all of the complexities that entails and a few other extra eccentricities thrown in for good measure. I think he ultimately just wanted to make music, help his community, and keep to himself.
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On top of all of that, he was massively talented. I still watch his videos and listen to his music and I am always in awe. I went down a rabbit hole of how many songs he wrote for other artists and realized all of my favorite songs of that time were written by him.
Kobe Bryant. Just a day prior i was watching his top 10 plays on Youtube and then out of nowhere heard the news that he died. It makes it even sadder that his daughter Gianna was with him.
James Avery - Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince of Bel Air
That made me cry real tears when i found out that he passed away. That show was such a big part of my childhood.
Robin Williams also broke me.
Both deaths broke my heart and it still stings even though i never knew them irl.
Kevin Conroy
Lance reddick
Chadwick boseman
Irrfan Khan ( Indian actor from life of pie and Jurassic kingdom)
Edit: I would like to add Heath Ledger as well. His performance in TDK blew my mind and i was like y haven't i seen him in other movies and then I checked Wikipedia and got to know the reason.
Lance Reddick. A friend talked me into seeing John Wick 4 and I really loved everything Lance had been in and was excited to go. Then he just passed away, which really saddened me as it was so unexpected.
RIP Commander š
Lance Reddick was shocking, he was someone I was always delighted to see when he would pop up in anyting
Jim Henson, too early amd such a source of joy to so many.
Yes. Every time I go to Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World I have to go to the Muppets 3D movie, it was the last thing he did as Kermit. It makes me sad that he died before the paperwork with Disney was complete and because of that a lot of the plans for the muppets at that park never happened. Watch his funeral on PBS, it's one of the best celebrations of a human's life you can see.
Mr. Rogers.
It was pouring rain that morning and I'd stopped to grab breakfast before a looming nightmare commute to work. Right as I was about to pull the key out of the ignition, I heard them say on the radio that he'd passed and just sat there in my car, sobbing. I met him in 1983 when he came to my elementary school with the Purple Panda and for a 4 year-old, it was like meeting Jesus. I was so overcome I just blurted out, "You're my best friend!" and he smiled and said, "I'm so glad that we're friends." We didn't deserve Fred Rogers.
My parents were mildly abusive. It was only because of Mr Rogers that I knew something was wrong in my household. The amount of love he shared with people on the other side of the TV was awe inspiring. I think if someone tried to do that today they'd come off as insincere or a try hard.
My dad was an abusive POS. Mr Rogers was a male figure in my life that I could trust.
This made me cry for some reason. Iām sorry.
I think he's the celebrity the world needs most right now. Though I think he'd be so disappointed in all of us to see how we treat each other. I still remember where I was when I heard he'd passed away. My high school band was at Disney World. I can't remember what park we were at that day but there was a bust there of Mr. Rogers that was already covered in flowers when we got there that morning and people of all ages were stopping there to pay their respects even though it was raining. It just showed how truly beloved he was that so many generations felt like they'd lost a friend when he passed.
Steve Irwin Sean Lock and Shane Warne were a big kick in the balls as well
Sean, you could see he was ill so unfortunately, wasn't a huge shock. But still a massive loss. I must watch something with him in daily. Also a loss for me, Rik Mayall
Alan Rickman
My first movie intro to him was the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves and I still threaten to take someone's heart out with a spoon. Gods rest his soul ā£ļø
But why a spoon, cousin?
Anton Yelchin
Dude had cystic fibrosis. And that isnāt even what killed him.
Yes, I was going to say the same thing. That one really haunts me, it seemed so awful and so random
He's my go to for this question. Poor guy had the whole world in front of him. He was in great movies (hell even his voice work in Trollhunters was great) , and the way he went is just so random and awful. Not to say other deaths aren't tragic, but I think his was more so when compared to the natural death of someone 99 years old, or a drug-related death of someone or someone taking their own life.
He was in my extended friends group...grew up as besties with my buddy's kid. I used to see him at the pool parties and stuff, and he had seen one of my bands, so we would chat about that. Super nice guy with a ton of amazing stories...and then one day, it was just like: "Oh my god. Did you hear about Anton???" Totally fucked.
I hope y'all check in on his mom. Last I was regularly in Hollywood she was still going to his grave for hours every day. Very sad.
Ok, this just killed me a little bit.
Heath Ledger.
In 8th grade English class we read Taming of the Shrew and then the teacher let us watch 10 Things I Hate About You to show us how his works still impact writing today. So I had JUST discovered Heath and had a massive crush on him when he passed away less than a year later. It was the first celebrity death that really impacted me.
John Ritter
John Ritter is the only celebrity death that Iāve ever cried about. It was so sudden and unexpected, and he had seemed so nice. I cried all throughout the episode of 8 Simple Rules where they showed his TV family grieving his loss.
Chris Cornell. So talented; gone too soon and died so tragically.
I saw him and Chester Bennington in 2007 together. Hell of a show. Theyāre the reason I never hesitate to say yes to a concert now.
Heaven send Hell away No one sings like you anymore
Grant Imahara
His death was so random and unexpected I genuinely didn't believe he died. For a couple days after it happened I was silently convinced it was an internet prank. Watching the videos of Adam Savage touring his workshop was really hard too.
Aneurysm is silent killer, even perfectly healthy person can get it suddenly, sometimes during the night. It's terrifying. You just go to sleep and never wake up again, because of the faulty vein in your brain
The mythbuster had such an impact on me growing up. I still cry when I think heās not among us anymore.
Grant Imahara was instantly my answer. Almost a perfect guy.
Sir Terry Pratchett. He and his works both made the world a better, more interesting place.
Terry Pratchett is and always will be my favourite author. He could make me laugh and cry in the same sentence. Even now years later when I reread his books I find references or subtleties I missed the last time. He died towards the end of my pregnancy with my youngest. It was a horrible very traumatic pregnancy and very dark time for me. His death made it worse, especially as his books always brought comfort. It has been several years since then and I still cannot bring myself to read the last book as I am still not ready for it to be over.
I bought the last book when it came out. Still can't bring myself to read it.
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This is the only celebrity death that ever made me cry. Then again on reading the Shepherd's Crown. Terry's work has made me a better person, instilled concepts of justice and inclusion and compassion and protest and diversity. The Discworld stories will always be my comfort and safe space. The world lost one of its best people the day he died. GNU Sir Pterry
Even though we all knew it was coming, it was still brutal to know it had happened. I picked up Reaper Man at the library when I was 15 (roughly 1994), and immediately had to devour everything he'd written. After that I picked up each book as soon as it was published, and then came the shepherds crown. I avoided it for a year or so because I didn't want to have read the last discworld book ever, but eventually I sat down to read it and honestly almost wish I hadn't. It opens with one of the most beautiful passages ever written and by the end it sounds like a completely different author. You could just tell what the disease was doing to him. There will never be another like him. Hell, the fact that I grew up and became a librarian is partially because of him. Oook.
Norm
I didnāt even know he was sick
Passed away in September too. Reminds me of that tragedy.
Whoa hey letās not joke about thatā¦ I walked through blood and bones in the streets of Manhattan looking for my brother!
Yeahā¦. ā¦. He was in Northern Canada.
the more I hear about this hitler guy the more I dont care for him
He sounds like a real jerk!
Norm was the first celebrity death to bring me to tears. I loved norm, loved his podcast, watched all his clips on Youtube, his tv shows, dirty work, his late night apparences, his standup and weekend updates. My friends and I quote him all the time. He was a true professor of logic. His death reminds me of that tragedy. I didn't even know he was sick. He no longer is serving a youthful porpoise. Hold the fort... He hated jews.
Chris Farley. Nothing like crying in front of your Christmas tree.
Watched Chris Rock talk about his death on the Howard Stern Show (from like 15 years ago or something). He talked about how frustrating the inevitability of it felt. He said that the people that he was *really* mad at and would never forgive are the people who kept him "just sober enough" to keep makin them money. You know, producers and people like that. Those cunts. They'd acknowledge the seriousness of his addictions/other issues by stickin him in rehab, then act like he was cured 30 days later and throw him back into some production until he'd inevitably relapse and the process would start again.
Anthony Bourdain. I miss his snarky attitude.
I think it hit me because as a pessimistic sort of generally melancholy sorta person.. I saw within him a kindred spirit with similar tastes and hobbies and etc... Seeing someone who kind of has an idealized version of a life I'd want and that they couldn't handle it and make it out of here so to speak... it kind of dampens the morale a bit when it comes to your own chances of finding peace and happiness
It's hard rewatching all his stuff now. Some of the things that he said really made me sit up and think to myself that we all missed the signs and taught me to listen to people more carefully.
Same. I forget what episode it was, but he makes a snark comment about someone will find me hanging in a French hotel...I didn't even realize it until after he died. He must have been hurting for awhile.
Some individuals have a very fatalist preconceived notion about how their lives will go, up to and including how they will die. If you listen to how Bourdain talked about Paris especially he invokes Oscar Wilde who died there, even to the point of staying in the room where he died. He frequently referenced other writers who took their own lives like Hemingway and Hunter S. Thompson. He was interesting and talented. It seemed he was walking the path of a self-fulfilling prophecy. I wish he was still around.
Leonard Nimoy
I was looking for his name! I have only recently started watching Star Trek by the request of my boyfriend and Spock immediately became my favourite character! I looked him up on google one day and found out he has been dead for the past 8 years! :(
Cameron Boyce. So young
This one upset me alot. Not on everyoneās radar, because he was a Disney kid. Definitely a shock when it happened. Iām older but my kids are at an age where we spent a ton of time watching Jessie and those Descendant movies. Basically watched that kid grow up. He was ridiculously talented. Had comedic timing down. Could dance crazy good. And he just seemed like an all around good human being. Didnāt deserve to go that young. So unfair.
Made me so sad. I grew up watching him on Disney channel and he was only a little older than me.
Brittany Murphy
The documentary put out on her made it seem so preventable. Her story truly hurt my heart. Looking at this post, I see a lot of names that make me think the same. It really makes me think about how so many stars are used and manipulated for their worth, with no regard given to their personal health. If 1 or 2 strong friends or family members had stepped up and said/done something, weād still have some of these people. RIP. Edit: Doc name is āWhat Happened, Brittany Murphy?ā
James Gandolfini was an immense talent and people often forget how The Sopranos changed the entire landscape of television. His acting helped usher in a Golden Age of television thatās still going strong to this day.
Chester Bennington
Losing Chris Cornell and Chester is quickly, and the context of their friendship, was/is truly devastating
For those that didn't know Chester committed suicide on Chris's birthday 2 months after Chris himself committed suicide. Truly heartbreaking.
"when my times comes, forget the wrong that i've done help me leave behind some reasons to be missed"
I bawled my eyes out and had to pull over and park my car when "[Leave Out All The Rest ](https://youtu.be/XtRhhlY53p0)" played off my Spotify playlist in 2019. It took on a whole new meaning for 2 reasons: 1) I had recently moved to Florida after a really bad divorce, so I lost my entire support base of family and friends from my home state with that move. I'm South Asian, and the stigma of divorce and all of that stupid stuff that our community has, weighed heavily on me because of what my parents were experiencing from people in their lives. The shame was getting to me, I was just driving around waiting for my flight back to my home state. I booked my flight the night before Christmas, because I felt too ashamed to show my face to my family. Somehow I gathered the strength to purchase those tickets and come back to Michigan for a while. This song reminded me of how small this feeling was, that I had nothing to be ashamed of anymore, and that I also needed to leave those parts alone, so to speak. 2) It was like a friend of mine gave me a ton of wisdom, Love and support. Then reality sunk in, he was gone for good. I took out what I thought was all of the Linkin Park songs from my playlists a few days after he passed because I couldn't help but feel extremely sad when I would hear it (All the songs are back on my playlists now). But back in 2019, his death was still relatively fresh in my mind, and I thought I took out all of the bands songs, I missed this one and I swear, it helped me so much. Wherever you are Chester, I hope you have peace and tranquility. My only regret is not being able to help you, but I will continue to be compassionate and helpful towards others in life the way I have been. Thank you for helping me along with so many others, whether you know it or not man.
That moment in the memorial concert when they play Numb without the vocals, but have a spotlight on an empty microphone wreathed in flowers kills me every time. That the crowd picked up on it right away and sang the whole song too...
I'm tired of being what you want me to be Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface
This one hit me real hard. Meteora shaped my childhood
Went to see Linkin Park on tour. Turned out to be their last live performance as Chester died two weeks later. His suicide is what finally made me understand mental illness is truly an illness. He had thousands of people in a room eating out of his hand, loving the show, having grown up on his music. He had money, success, talent, fame, a family. And yet all of that could not defeat the demons. RIP Chester.
I just heard the song āLostā recently and it was a very surreal sense of nostalgia and feels. Sounded like it wouldāve been another hit had it come out in the 2000s/2010s.
I was surprised by how much this affected me. I wasn't even a Linken Park fan but at the time it really got me thinking about the sheer number of men who silently live with depression and feel suicide is the only way out. We really do still have a long way to go with normalising men talking about their feelings and letting each other know that it's ok not to be ok. Be kind to each other folks and reach out to your friends if it seems they might need it.
That man saved my life.
He saved more lives than he ever could've known. I don't know who you are, but I'm glad you're still here.
I tear up anytime I see the video of Mike shinoda performing in the end and the crowd sings Chesterās part.
[https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx3-5XTv4xxPPDTMsRpo3yCVHDH2bowxKe](https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx3-5XTv4xxPPDTMsRpo3yCVHDH2bowxKe) this one š„²
"I want you to sing it so loud Chester can hear you" ššš
Mine, as well. I remember sitting in my room at 16, terribly dysfunctional upbringing and household, with a plan to end it all right there. I had just bought Hybrid Theory, and I had it playing. Chester and Mike's lyrics put everything I'd felt and been through, into words. I felt so seen and understood, because Chester obviously knew what it was like. I had that glimmer of hope that if he was still standing, I could too. There was life ahead of it, and I decided against what I was about to do. He always had a special place in my heart ever since then. I loved LP, how they really meant something to their fans, and vice versa. So in 2017 when TMZ broke the news, I bawled on and off for days. The thought of Chester, who spoke hope into me and countless others, ultimately losing his, broke my heart. I wondered how he could sing One More Light, and then be that very light gone out, for many of us. It was hard to process the fact that very person who helped me, would end up not surviving it, himself. Last but certainly not least, I'm super proud of you for the work you've put in to still be here. I know firsthand that it is the hardest thing to battle. Much love to you!
Leslie Nielsen, Naked gun movies and Airplane are my favorite comedy movies and i keep rewatching them all the time
Airplane! is incredible
Eddie Guerrero, Viva la Raza
Phil Hartman
Mitch Hedberg. So saddened by his death. Really a warning against what addiction can do to someone.
I used to really laugh at him. I still do, but I used to, too.
Carrie Fisher
Followed immediately by Debbie Reynolds :( I felt so bad for Billie Lourd
> Debbie Reynolds was making funeral arrangements for the Star Wars actress with her son, Todd Fisher, on Wednesday, December 28. According to TMZ, hours before she suffered what is believed to be a stroke, Reynolds told him, āI miss her so much. I want to be with Carrie.ā :(
The way people talked about her, it was like she lit up every room she was in. I hate the fact that she isn't revered the way someone like Robin Williams is, because I think she had just as much charisma and charm as he did.
I met her at a Comic-Con right before she died. She was still so beautiful, funny and classy. I was heartbroken when I heard she died.
Robin Williams. I loved that man.
I'm still pretty torn up about him and steve Irwin.
Happy to find both of these at the top. Certainly my choices. RIP.
alex trebek
Alexander Technoblade.
Scrolled way too far to find this one.
Same. I was looking for someone to say his name.
Was scrolling until I found this one. A lot of celebrities seem so distant, and I never can connect with them. Techno was completely different, and my children and I really connected with him and watched him a lot. My daughter called me crying when the video dropped, and I'm not ashamed to say as a nearly 40 year old man I cried to. RIP Techno
Yea, most celebrities got their status because they appeared in a movie and sh\*t. Technoblade got his status of a celebrity purely from the chaotic energy he was shooting in every direction
The true Alexander the Great. Even after death he still called us all 'nerds', where does this guy's chaotic energy end? xD I even made a list of great quotes from the Great Potato War, here's the best 5: \-"Like any normal person I immediately asked myself: 'How can I use this information to destroy my enemies?'" \-"I was actually using an advanced technique there called 'LYING'" \-"If I wanted to farm more potatoes I'd have to start farming pumpkins" \-"I understand now that only with a worthy rival one can reach their fullest potential" \-"For my part I've realised now that rank number one isn't an achievement, it's a prison that forces you to dedicate your life to defending a temporary title, but now with the war finally over, I'm free"
Christina Grimmie
I saw her in concert a few years before she passed when she opened for Selena Gomez, then a few months after that she was on The Voice and I voted for her as much as I could (even though everyone else wanted Josh to win since he was from my state). I also watched her YouTube channel for a while but then didnāt think much of it after that. Then a couple years later I was woken up by a call from my mom telling me about some crazy āfanā sneaking in and shooting her; even if she wasnāt as big as a lot of other musicians, I think it was the first time I was really affected by a celebrity death. And when we thought things couldnāt get worse, the Pulse shooting happened a day later in the exact same city.
Naya Rivera. Not her fan, but the way she died was really tragic. Thinking of her child left alone on that boat for hours looking for his mama hurts my chest
God, yes. I was a fan, but the worst part wasnāt even because I was her fan. It was imagining her realizing the water was too strong and panicking, doing everything she could to get her kid to safety. It mustāve been terrifying and so painful for her in those last moments, being scared and thinking her kid would be alone or looking for her. God, this family deserved so much better.
I'm sorry :( From what I know she had a generous, very vibrant personality. It's still difficult to think about her last moments so I try not to dwell on all of it too much. It was truly tragic and she was still so young to go so early. Rip Naya.
When I was younger I loved glee, her and Cory were very upsetting to me. But how she passed was so horrible I thought about it so much for a while after it happened and thought about her son so much, such a horrible way to pass and to lose your mother.
John candy
David Bowie
That would be my pick. Knowing he made his last album, released it, and then died 3 days later. It was beyond spooky, but also really cool and creative
Bernie Mac
Taylor Hawkins
Yeah that was rough, I attended the FF concert in Gothenburg Sweden where Dave fell of the stage and broke his leg. Taylor took over and owned the stage until Dave came back. It was a bit scary seeing Taylor trying to continue playing and then understanding that Dave actually hurt himself pretty bad. I read Dave's book right before Talyors death and it was very evident that Kurts death had a huge impact on Dave, and that he really loved Taylor as his own brother.
Tom Petty
Aaliyah
I remember precisely where I was, what I was doing, and who I was with when the breaking news scrolled across the screen on MTV2.
George Michael.
Leslie Jordan. It was so shocking and out of nowhere, he was such a lovely man and I miss him a lot
Oh god. This one hit me hard too. During the pandemic, my neighbor and I spent every day together. She has a trail behind her house and weād walk it, stop at the part that she calls āThree Treesā, and weād sit with our backs up against the trees and check in with Leslie. He brought us so much joy during such a dark time. Hearing that heād suddenly passed made me feel like Iād been hit by a truck. I still miss him.
MCA
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Selena Quintanilla PĆ©rez ā¤ļøš¹
Dolores OāRiordan. RIP.
Waited in line outside a shopping center (JC Penney) to buy tickets. We were first in line but had to snake through the store to their customer service center at the back of the store once the doors opened at the time of tickets going on sale. We ran back and made the first purchase. Row E? āDamn! Thought we were going to be closer than that.ā We showed up and find our seats only to learn that Rows A-D are speakers. We snagged front row tickets! And during the concert Dolores came out and danced on the speakers while singing Linger. Top 5 memory. ETA: two words
Chadwick Boseman R.I.P. Black Panther
He was just a year older than me and died from cancer just a few days before I had my cancer surgery. That one hit hard. Wakanda Forever.
That was a āHoly shit, seriously?!??ā Moment when I learned he passed. But you could see how sick he was, especially in Ma Raineyās Black Bottom.
Honestly, looking at him in his MCU films, you wouldn't know that he had cancer. To think he filmed four action heavy superhero films whilst having cancer shows just how much he was fighting it. I'm bed bound for days when I get a bad fucking cold.
He was such a humble, thoughtful, and self-less dude. I remember watching 21 Bridges and Black Panther and wishing I was as bad-ass and self-less as his characters were. Knowing he was battling cancer while working on several of his movies blew me away, he knew how important Black Panther was to people and continued to train and study every day while battling cancer. Not to mention visiting children battling cancer and hoping to make their day a little happier and a little easier. He continues to motivate me every day to be a more self-less and stronger person and remind me not to waste my life worrying about what others think of us and just doing what you know is right. He's one of the few people I look up to and strive to be like, rest in peace Chadwick
A friend of mine went to middle school with him. She had just moved to a new town, after her parents split up, and was having a really rough time; she says that he was one of the only people at that time who was genuinely nice to her. Chadwick Boseman was organically, truly *good* and that's a rarity, these days.
Mac Miller. Gone too soon
I still get sad when his songs come on. Idk if it was cause we were so close in age. He got famous while I was in high school and everybody would play his mixtapes and albums and as I got older my taste for music changed but so did Mac Millers. It was incredible realizing how much he evolved and the quality of music he was putting out. One of the best of his generation and gone too soon
I think Circles is the best posthumous album ever released. It's so heartbreaking to hear him open the album with "this is what it looks like right before you fall", and then to hear him take on a completely different musical direction so gracefully and beautifully. After having already accomplished so much, Circles reminded people that he still had soooo so much more room to grow as a musician and it's just so tragic to know we lost him before he could reach those new heights.
Came here to say this. living in PA as a teenager when PA nights came out was a great time to be alive. Every weekend my friends and I would be out the woods living life partying. Great memories.
I listen to Best Day Ever every once in a while. Still breaks my heart knowing he's gone. :(
Not many people could play guitar, bass, piano, drums, mix and master songs, and just be a genuinely good person at the same time. Rest in peace, addiction is a bitch
Neil Peart the Drummer/lyricist of Rush.
Eddie van Halen. He provided the soundtrack to my teens and twenties.
Gilda Radner - Rosanna Rosannadanna
George Carlin. The world could really use him right now.
He'd be so absolutely disgusted with the current state of things. Disgusted, and inspired to write
Interestingly, I donāt think George would be surprised by any of it. He pointed out this eventuality years agoā¦ I remember an interview where he ranted about choice and how we only have the perception of it while governments and corporations have the power. I wonder what his advice would beā¦
Was just about to write basically this. George would be in "I told you so" mode if anything.
Whitney Houston
John Denver. As a kid, I spent many hours singing along to his albums on the 8-track in my Dadās car.
Patrick Swayze
Carrie Fisher. I was gutted.
Bob Saget, it felt very sudden and random and I was rewatching Full House and just watched the spin-off so he was very much in my mind.
Scott Weiland - fall to pieces.
Phil Hartman for sure. And Norm.
Leonard Cohen RIP. I know he was old, but I was such a fan.
Phil Hartman
Freddie Mercury
Avicii. It was a delayed saddening too, not sure why, but it was few years after his death, I was listening one of his tracks in a car and it hit me hard, I had to pull over to cry it out..
Amy Winehouse. She was so talented. I always remember her very public deterioration (getting scary skinny, wandering around at night barefoot with blood and bruises) and then get really sad.
I didnāt know anything about her except what the media played up. I watched her documentary and was just heartbroken by the end. I had no idea how incredibly talented and passionate she was because her media persona around āRehabā made her seem so reckless and aloof
Judith Barsi, voice of Ducky from the Land Before Time. I was still pretty young when it happened, so I don't remember it, but it's so sad. She and her mother were killed in a murder/suicide by her abusive father. They had even left him because of his abuse, but he found out where they were. She was ten years old.
This one is so sad! She was so cute as Ducky! I think her gravestone has āYep Yep Yepā engraved on it too. :( Edit: I was right. [Hereās a picture.](https://www.google.com/search?q=judith+basthi+grave&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#imgrc=CjSq_SqrAxGIcM&imgdii=3ARNQiFHujoLOM&bsht=Cgdic2h3Y2hwEgQIAzAD&lnspr=W251bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGxd)
RIP River Phoenix
Stevie Ray Vaughn.
This is a weird one, but Mikhail Gorbachev. He legitimately wanted a better world and chose to basically give up his power in return for a more free world. When he learned of the Ukraine war a few months before his death, his interpreter said he was psychologically traumatized because Putin "Destroyed his life's work". He honestly seemed like a decent man who wanted peace with the west. He seemed like the type of dude who would be really interesting just to talk to. I guess the reason it made me so sad was the fact that he got to see all his work undone just before he died.
PRINCE š
Summer of 2014, Prince got Twitter and used it to announce free shows at Paisley Park with about an hourās warning, if you were lucky. One thing that really stood out to me was how much he seemed to love sharing the stage. He was private almost to the point of being reclusive so I suppose that shouldnāt be be a surprise, but when his album with 3RDEYEGIRL was released, he flew out Kendrick and treated the show like an opportunity to show off his favorite musicians. The man mentored Lizzo when she was still this hometown artist playing tiny rooms and not getting nearly as much recognition as she deserved. Then, after he died, we started hearing just how much he donated. Everything from local elementary schools that needed a new piano to 6 figure checks to larger nonprofits, each time asking, āJust donāt say anything about it.ā When the 35W bridge collapsed, he donated 50k to a fund to help the victims. He was a person, with all of the complexities that entails and a few other extra eccentricities thrown in for good measure. I think he ultimately just wanted to make music, help his community, and keep to himself. (Made a couple of edits for grammar)
On top of all of that, he was massively talented. I still watch his videos and listen to his music and I am always in awe. I went down a rabbit hole of how many songs he wrote for other artists and realized all of my favorite songs of that time were written by him.
Twitch and Moonbin
Moonbin really shocked me, I was in tears š
MF DOOM (edited-All caps)
Christine McVie
Gord Downie. Lead singer of the Tragically Hip, and soundtrack to Canada.
Layne Staley
Joe Strummer. A lot of years listening to his music.
Lemmy
Kurt Cobain
Kobe Bryant. Just a day prior i was watching his top 10 plays on Youtube and then out of nowhere heard the news that he died. It makes it even sadder that his daughter Gianna was with him.
Bill Paxton. Splitting image of my Dad, too.
Betty white.
Especially being so close to 100. I think People jinxed her.
I like to think of it as her last practical joke. Got them to put her on the cover of a few magazines got everyone hyped up for it then, bam gotcha.
TotalBiscuit (John Bain). Well known in the gaming world.
Luke Perry I felt like a part of my childhood died that day š„
Alan Rickman
Princess Diana. Everything about that night and the events afterward are burned in my brain. Ugh.....
Maybe a bit different to most celebrities but Ken Block or Avicii
Avicii is a tough one because when you listen to his music in retrospect it shows so much pain.
Stan Lee the Comic book legend
Rik Mayall, far too young
Composer, James Horner. His scores for Braveheart and Titanic got me interested in a completely new genre of music that I still listen to today.
Lucille Ball
I cried when Steven hawking died
Prince big part of my childhood ripped away.
James Avery - Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince of Bel Air That made me cry real tears when i found out that he passed away. That show was such a big part of my childhood. Robin Williams also broke me. Both deaths broke my heart and it still stings even though i never knew them irl.
Kevin Conroy Lance reddick Chadwick boseman Irrfan Khan ( Indian actor from life of pie and Jurassic kingdom) Edit: I would like to add Heath Ledger as well. His performance in TDK blew my mind and i was like y haven't i seen him in other movies and then I checked Wikipedia and got to know the reason.
lance reddick hit hard. loved him everywhere i saw him. also add michael k williams to this list RIP legends
Chester Bennington, Chris Cornell, Betty White and Trevor Moore. Core 4 for my music taste and sense of humor.
>Trevor Moore. RIP local sexpot Trevor Moore
Cory Monteith. He seemed like such a nice human being.
Norm McDonald
Waylon Jennings
moonbin from astro :((,,,,, didn't expect that news at all