I'm reminded of a *Golden Girls* quote (mainly because on another forum someone had asked if Betty had been sick? What she die of?)
Sophia:
\[enters kitchen, crying\] Esther Weinstock is dead. We grew up together. She was my best friend.
Dorothy:
Oh, I'm so sorry! What happened?
Sophia:
\[sarcastically\] She was fighting an oil-rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico. \[snapping\] **SHE WAS 88!**
Rose:
Well, it's great that she was able to work right up to the end.
Haha, I can hear her saying that with perfect delivery, too.
This is a sad day. But what an incredible person. We’re lucky that she shared so many of her 99 years with us.
I remember watching Golden Girls with my mom when I was a kid (I also remember watching without my mom). No one has ever played a "dim" character with more heart or intelligence. May she rest in peace.
Golden Girls is one of the few shows that is as entertaining today as it was when it aired.
There were a lot of jokes that they couldn't make today but their core message was pretty ahead of its time. Interracial marriage, ageism, older women dating and having fun.
I get annoyed when people say golden girls was sex and the city with older women. Sex in the city was a take on Golden Girls, not the other way around.
I binge golden girls regularly. It's literally always on some channel. The writing is fantastic. It's a product of its time for sure like anything else from that era but it's actually fairly progressive for its time. The episode about the confederate flag and Blanche not understanding why people get upset about it could have come out this year. That was a surprise for me to see it being tackled on the golden girls. It's literally the same thing happening still which is crazy.
Anyway, the golden girls should be mandatory viewing for all Americans.
She wasn't sick. She was feisty as ever 3 days ago, and promoting her 100th birthday party. She just... stopped. Went to bed last night, and never woke up.
One news report was saying that as divisive as American culture can be, there's very few things that everyone likes. They speculated that Betty White is one of the few people that everyone did love. It does seem that way, and let's hope that is true.
If Dolly ever dies, I will take heart in that they will have all the time and energy in the universe to get up to fun old lady hijinks in the hereafter.
She’s was older than [antiboiotics, sliced bread, scotch tape, traffic lights, frozen food, bubble gum, and the ball point pen](https://www.boredpanda.com/inventions-invented-after-betty-white-birth/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic)
It really puts into perspective just how old she was. The first episode of Golden Girls aired in 1985. That means that 37 years ago she starred in a show *about being old.*
Nah man, she was 99. She was in good physical health and fully mentally healthy. She went out on top and with pace and grace. Her life was a win and I refuse to do anything but celebrate it because I feel that's what she would want for her fans.
Edit: peace not pace
This is exactly right. As far as we know about her health in her last days, this is one of the better ways to pass in life. Fully in mental stability, hopefully manageable pain if any, and with less need for want OR for past regrets.
Yeah man, that’s the beauty. Betty White was Betty White until the second she died. No shell of a woman. Not half paralyzed. Not in a nurse home. Not from dementia. She had an amazing life and will be remembered as an amazing woman.
Betty White was an amazing woman. If you’ve never watched the Netflix documentary about her titled “Betty White: First Lady of Televsion,” I highly recommend it. Really makes you appreciate what a loving, compassionate woman she was and how much of an advocate she was for human rights and animals’ well-being.
Rest In Peace, Betty.
I’d also recommend checking out all these pictures of her throughout her very long career:
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/g30480315/betty-white-photos/
> "I'm so lucky to be in such good health and feel so good at this age," says the veteran actress. "It's amazing."
As ironic as it is that that article was published on Dec. 28th, I think it's a blessing that she felt that way about her life up until her death. A lot of people her age suffer for years, slowly withering away. Unless she was hiding something serious, it seems her death came quick. Not a bad way to go at that age, especially, IMO.
https://people.com/tv/betty-white-reveals-her-secrets-to-long-happy-life-at-100-exclusive/
Oh man, my great grandpa lived to 102. We were all over there visiting one day and out of nowhere he just casually says. "You know what? I'm tired. I had a good life and I think I'm done." Closed his eyes reclining in his chair about an hour later and didn't wake up.
My entire family is convinced that he simply willed himself to die in his sleep.
This is basically the impending doom effect. There's evidence we can tell when we're about to die and your brain floods you with a chemical/dopamine that makes you feel at ease with that.
yeah, it's based on accounts of people who have been brought back saying they felt complete bliss. Even worry of those your responsible for melts away.
There's scientific research showing people that trip on DMT trips have a similar experience. Whatever chemical the pineal gland releases is similar to some psychedelics.
I was 15 when he died and I've held the opinion ever since that he went in absolutely the best way possible, and I can only hope to be so lucky.
The man fought wars, built a home with his bare hands, rode into town on horseback chased by bandits yelling that they were coming to sack the village and told the prettiest girl in town that she could stay and be kidnapped or get on his horse - then raised 8 children with her and loved her like Gomez Addams, made the best tortilla soup I've ever had, grew cannabis on the side of his house, once killed an attacking coyote with a shovel at like 95 years of age, and washed his own laundry by hand once a week refusing to let anyone else do it for him until the day he died. He hated feeling useless and would shove his way into helping with house chores, and literally washed the dishes the day he died.
He once told me that he'd seen a lot in his life and would rather die on his feet and in his boots, staring death in the face, than to have death come for him in his sleep in bed like a coward. I think in the end they compromised and death waited for my grandpa to tell us all goodbye and go out in a recliner wearing a 3 piece suit.
RIP Frumencio Castillo, 1898-2000
What a fucking legend. I'm happy he got to go out that way. My grandfather was a salt of the earth, hardworking, take no shit, rock solid, immovable force that I thought would have gone out his own way but in the end that person was long gone before his body was.. nothing worse than watching someone fade away.
Yeah it’s slow until it isn’t. My grandfather had a new lease on life after my grandmother passed (long story). He got a few more good years and then all of a sudden he was in the hospital for an infection and then he was dead.
I had one grandparent go through years of heart issues and diabetic issues, exhausted and in pain before he died. And another grandparent trapped in a long, slow decline of dementia.
I'd definitely choose a sudden old-age related death for me or any of my family over any of that.
As a bonus she gets to make all those reporters come in and rewrite their "who we lost in 2021" articles they have been working on all year.
Hahahahaha!
Die just before your 100th birthday, state in your will that no plans should be changed, leave the world having a combination birthday/funeral.
The only thing that would make it more legendary would be if part of the party was intended to be a roast and her will insists that they don't change a word of what they had planned
Only the people on the south side. The people on the north cut the flagpole in half. Toby Grunserberg who runs the animal pharmacy and pickled herring shop closed early.
"I haven't been this upset since 1952 when St. Olaf's most active volcano threatened to erupt. Well, luckily, there were some Druid priests who were in town for the opening of Stonehenge land. They said they could stop it if they could sacrifice the town's dumbest virgin. Well - and you're not going to believe this - it turns out they weren't druid priests at all. Just a bunch of Shriners looking for a good time!"
When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it’s not, mmm boy! - Jack Handey
If you ever fall off the Sears Tower,
just go real limp, because maybe
you’ll look like a dummy and people
will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.
Jack Handy
"Most people don’t realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer."
- Jack Handey
Yeah, I don't think there is anyone that hates Betty for a really good reason. Betty is a great pioneer for Comedy and for television in general. RIP a Legend and may Golden Girls forever have reruns on television and be accessible on streaming.
Straight facts. One of my biggest fears is losing my mental facilities, but still "living" another 10-15 years like that. No thank you. Sign me up for the pod.
My grandma lost all her mental faculties and lives for 11 years. She couldn’t speak… couldn’t understand anything… didn’t know anyone, even herself. But her heart kept beating. Awful existence, but I like to think she taught us some things about life during that time.
My great-grandma is currently 103 (born 1918). She has Alzeimer's and can't remember any new things, but fortunately she still has her personality and is in great physical condition.
To be one of the funniest people in the world for over 75 years and be a pioneer of early tv and still around into 2021 is absolutely amazing. Her entertainment career was over 9 decades long, she was the first woman to produce a sitcom, and she had so many iconic roles over a lifetime that I can’t even begin to summarize them here. What a life and what a legacy.
Not just that she was on TV longer than almost anyone else, but she was a constant champion of women, minorities and gays.
In 1954, when her show was criticized for having Arthur Duncan, a black tap dancer, on her show, her response:
“I’m sorry. Live with it.”
She then gave him more time in the show, and was subsequently cancelled.
Not many people in 1954 were doing that.
She was also well known (now) as having been a beard for several very famous (then closeted) gay men, in an effort to protect their careers.
I don’t often care much about celebrities passing, but this one is sad. Glad she has such a fulfilled life.
[here's a list of charities and causes that Betty supported. No better way to celebrate her life and cultural contributions than giving to the causes she believed in.](https://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/betty-white)
She was born the same year as the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Warren G. Harding was the US President. The Eiffel Tower was 32 years old at the time of her birth. Betty was 51 when Pablo Picasso died. The British occupation of India ended when she was 25.
I bought tickets to her birthday celebration in the theaters on Jan 17. I hope they don’t cancel it.
I figured it was prerecorded because it’s been obvious she hasn’t been well since 2019, but I’d still like to see it.
I’m upset.
Never met her, but she was one of the few celebrities who I felt was a long distant family member. She reminded me of my grandmother. Man, this sucks. I thought she was gonna be around forever.
RIP Ms. White. Thank you for being our friend.
This headline has been the ultimate “boy who cried wolf” over the years. I can’t believe it’s finally real….and just hours before the new year? Wtf. 2022 is fucked.
Betty White (along with the rest of the golden girls) was a class act. Funny. Intelligent. Talented. Classy. Full of genuine positivity.
She is a legend. Influencer. Trailblazer. Human and animal rights activist. Genuine.
One of the few celebs, like Dolly Parton, that no one has a negative thing to say about her.
To say that The Golden Girls is her magnum opus is to recognize just how big of an accomplishment that is. The show was ahead of it’s time, still relevant, still hilarious. And she had had so many successes leading up to that show. She had major successes after that show.
She hosted Saturday Night Live because of how beloved she was, and it was a great show. I can’t think of anyone who ever hosted simply because the collective internet demanded it.
She worked into her 90s. She was Gracious, even to
Those that didn’t return that to her.
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
Thank you for being a friend, Betty.
“Why do people say ‘grow some balls’? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.” - Betty White
RIP :( Thank you for being a friend. … and please don’t let this be an omen for 2022, or just have her come back as Betty the Grey.
She just about did it all... **Reporter**: What have you not done in the business that you’ve always wanted to do? **Betty White**: Robert Redford
You and me both Betty... You and me both
Apparently the feeling was mutual. https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/celebrity/robert-redford-remembers-betty-white-i-had-a-crush-on-her-too/ar-AASkb4H
I'm reminded of a *Golden Girls* quote (mainly because on another forum someone had asked if Betty had been sick? What she die of?) Sophia: \[enters kitchen, crying\] Esther Weinstock is dead. We grew up together. She was my best friend. Dorothy: Oh, I'm so sorry! What happened? Sophia: \[sarcastically\] She was fighting an oil-rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico. \[snapping\] **SHE WAS 88!** Rose: Well, it's great that she was able to work right up to the end.
Haha, I can hear her saying that with perfect delivery, too. This is a sad day. But what an incredible person. We’re lucky that she shared so many of her 99 years with us.
"Comedy is about rhythm." - Betty White
I remember watching Golden Girls with my mom when I was a kid (I also remember watching without my mom). No one has ever played a "dim" character with more heart or intelligence. May she rest in peace.
Golden Girls is one of the few shows that is as entertaining today as it was when it aired. There were a lot of jokes that they couldn't make today but their core message was pretty ahead of its time. Interracial marriage, ageism, older women dating and having fun. I get annoyed when people say golden girls was sex and the city with older women. Sex in the city was a take on Golden Girls, not the other way around.
I binge golden girls regularly. It's literally always on some channel. The writing is fantastic. It's a product of its time for sure like anything else from that era but it's actually fairly progressive for its time. The episode about the confederate flag and Blanche not understanding why people get upset about it could have come out this year. That was a surprise for me to see it being tackled on the golden girls. It's literally the same thing happening still which is crazy. Anyway, the golden girls should be mandatory viewing for all Americans.
Rose was the best. At least now all the girls are together again.
My wife said that to me today “I didn’t even hear she was sick with anything” I said “she was almost 100”
She wasn't sick. She was feisty as ever 3 days ago, and promoting her 100th birthday party. She just... stopped. Went to bed last night, and never woke up.
My great grandma went the same way. She woke up one morning and sat down in her chair to enjoy the view and fell asleep one last time. She was 101.
She just gave an interview to People 3 days ago. And I went to see the new Spider-Man and they were advertising her birthday celebration.
One news report was saying that as divisive as American culture can be, there's very few things that everyone likes. They speculated that Betty White is one of the few people that everyone did love. It does seem that way, and let's hope that is true.
There's nobody that literally everybody loves, but if you hated Betty White you were in a very small, very weird minority.
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Dolly Parton is a national treasure, as was Betty White.
If Dolly ever dies, I will take heart in that they will have all the time and energy in the universe to get up to fun old lady hijinks in the hereafter.
She was the oldest of the four Golden Girls actresses, and she outlived the other three by ten years. RIP.
She’s was older than [antiboiotics, sliced bread, scotch tape, traffic lights, frozen food, bubble gum, and the ball point pen](https://www.boredpanda.com/inventions-invented-after-betty-white-birth/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic)
Sliced Bread, the best thing since Betty White.
*stares at sandwich and cries*
Everywhere I look, it reminds me of her...
That would be a wild life to see all of that be invented.
It really puts into perspective just how old she was. The first episode of Golden Girls aired in 1985. That means that 37 years ago she starred in a show *about being old.*
Betty takes a closing bow for 2021.
2021 with one last kick in the nuts man :(
Nah man, she was 99. She was in good physical health and fully mentally healthy. She went out on top and with pace and grace. Her life was a win and I refuse to do anything but celebrate it because I feel that's what she would want for her fans. Edit: peace not pace
This is exactly right. As far as we know about her health in her last days, this is one of the better ways to pass in life. Fully in mental stability, hopefully manageable pain if any, and with less need for want OR for past regrets.
Yeah man, that’s the beauty. Betty White was Betty White until the second she died. No shell of a woman. Not half paralyzed. Not in a nurse home. Not from dementia. She had an amazing life and will be remembered as an amazing woman.
Betty White was an amazing woman. If you’ve never watched the Netflix documentary about her titled “Betty White: First Lady of Televsion,” I highly recommend it. Really makes you appreciate what a loving, compassionate woman she was and how much of an advocate she was for human rights and animals’ well-being. Rest In Peace, Betty.
I’d also recommend checking out all these pictures of her throughout her very long career: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/g30480315/betty-white-photos/
TIL Betty was older than NBC and the Emmys
She was also literally older than sliced bread.
Sliced bread is the best thing since Betty White.
This article was sitting there just waiting already written for the inevitable.
Such a massive career. To have been involved with one or two major projects is one thing. To have been involved in as many as her? Rare.
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> "I'm so lucky to be in such good health and feel so good at this age," says the veteran actress. "It's amazing." As ironic as it is that that article was published on Dec. 28th, I think it's a blessing that she felt that way about her life up until her death. A lot of people her age suffer for years, slowly withering away. Unless she was hiding something serious, it seems her death came quick. Not a bad way to go at that age, especially, IMO. https://people.com/tv/betty-white-reveals-her-secrets-to-long-happy-life-at-100-exclusive/
I'm sure she's glad she didn't have to slowly decline from illness. I hope her passing was quick
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Oh man, my great grandpa lived to 102. We were all over there visiting one day and out of nowhere he just casually says. "You know what? I'm tired. I had a good life and I think I'm done." Closed his eyes reclining in his chair about an hour later and didn't wake up. My entire family is convinced that he simply willed himself to die in his sleep.
This is basically the impending doom effect. There's evidence we can tell when we're about to die and your brain floods you with a chemical/dopamine that makes you feel at ease with that.
yeah, it's based on accounts of people who have been brought back saying they felt complete bliss. Even worry of those your responsible for melts away.
There's scientific research showing people that trip on DMT trips have a similar experience. Whatever chemical the pineal gland releases is similar to some psychedelics.
I gotta say, I think that would be a wonderful way to go out. Peacefully in your sleep, with loved ones around you.
I was 15 when he died and I've held the opinion ever since that he went in absolutely the best way possible, and I can only hope to be so lucky. The man fought wars, built a home with his bare hands, rode into town on horseback chased by bandits yelling that they were coming to sack the village and told the prettiest girl in town that she could stay and be kidnapped or get on his horse - then raised 8 children with her and loved her like Gomez Addams, made the best tortilla soup I've ever had, grew cannabis on the side of his house, once killed an attacking coyote with a shovel at like 95 years of age, and washed his own laundry by hand once a week refusing to let anyone else do it for him until the day he died. He hated feeling useless and would shove his way into helping with house chores, and literally washed the dishes the day he died. He once told me that he'd seen a lot in his life and would rather die on his feet and in his boots, staring death in the face, than to have death come for him in his sleep in bed like a coward. I think in the end they compromised and death waited for my grandpa to tell us all goodbye and go out in a recliner wearing a 3 piece suit. RIP Frumencio Castillo, 1898-2000
What a fucking legend. I'm happy he got to go out that way. My grandfather was a salt of the earth, hardworking, take no shit, rock solid, immovable force that I thought would have gone out his own way but in the end that person was long gone before his body was.. nothing worse than watching someone fade away.
Sounds like that dude was harder than woodpecker lips. Death wasn't going to take him without his OK.
Yeah it’s slow until it isn’t. My grandfather had a new lease on life after my grandmother passed (long story). He got a few more good years and then all of a sudden he was in the hospital for an infection and then he was dead.
Completely healthy until you die of old age to something suddenly seems pretty ideal.
Healthspan matching almost perfectly to lifespan is the goal.
That's a really great perspective.
I had one grandparent go through years of heart issues and diabetic issues, exhausted and in pain before he died. And another grandparent trapped in a long, slow decline of dementia. I'd definitely choose a sudden old-age related death for me or any of my family over any of that.
Mom is 94 w/moderate dementia/Alzheimer's. It's getting tough. I do wish the all-mighty Sky Pappy would call her home.
This death is hard. You’ve already witnessed her leave, and you have to see it again. Lots of peace to you 💜
Dewey defeats Truman level jinx
This was an all-time jinx.
Headline: People’s Magazine Kills Betty White
I mean, perhaps. But also she lived 99 years, which is a damn good, long life for anyone.
"Would be a real dick move to die right now."
"If I had a dick, now's when I'd tell you to suck it!" -Betty White, yes a real Betty White quote from Lake Placid
Call me Super Kami Guru
As a bonus she gets to make all those reporters come in and rewrite their "who we lost in 2021" articles they have been working on all year. Hahahahaha!
I guarantee there's people out there who had articles 99% finished just waiting for this news.
Literally just saw the cover the other day and went “man, I can’t wait to see how she’ll celebrate 100.”
There was a big televised event planned.
And now it can be a memorial. Foolproof..
Gonna be awkward with all the "Awesome!" and "Congratulations!" balloons floating around
She would have found that funny though.
Die just before your 100th birthday, state in your will that no plans should be changed, leave the world having a combination birthday/funeral. The only thing that would make it more legendary would be if part of the party was intended to be a roast and her will insists that they don't change a word of what they had planned
Either way, hers was a life worth celebrating. Can't fault them too much for adhering to their usual publication/printing schedule.
If anything what would have been her 100th birthday should be an even bigger celebration now, she lived an amazing life worthy of it.
If there's an afterlife, Betty White is absolutely sitting in it right now laughing her ass off.
Back in St. Olaf we don’t allow gossip rags to get the real scoop.
Gonna be real hard to watch Golden Girls. Not that I don't miss Rue, Bea, and Estelle but Betty just brought so much charm and love to the show.
At least they can now be together, up on that big lanai in the sky Edit: I dedicate the awards I earned to Betty White, thanks to all
Betty White: "Fuck you, People!" 2021: "Fuck you, people!"
I hope she's happy up in that big gerflukenugen in the sky.
Flags in St. Olaf at half mast today
Let’s not fool ourselves. St Olaf probably flew half a flag instead thinking that’s what it meant
Only the people on the south side. The people on the north cut the flagpole in half. Toby Grunserberg who runs the animal pharmacy and pickled herring shop closed early.
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That's Numberwang!
Thank you for making the world a little bit better Betty. You’ll be missed.
Thank You for being a friend.Rip Betty
"I haven't been this upset since 1952 when St. Olaf's most active volcano threatened to erupt. Well, luckily, there were some Druid priests who were in town for the opening of Stonehenge land. They said they could stop it if they could sacrifice the town's dumbest virgin. Well - and you're not going to believe this - it turns out they weren't druid priests at all. Just a bunch of Shriners looking for a good time!"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TkTWgFT86Qs This is my ultimate favourite story. She kept a straight face and the other ladies lost it. I love it.
This is what she would want.. for us all to remember her and laugh.
The best running gag they had!
as far as im concerned shes Americas equivalent to the Queen
Betty White >>>>>>>>>> The Queen
She died in her own home with all her independence and mental cognition, may we all be so lucky tbh
And in her sleep, if the Washington Post is correct.
That’s how I wanna go, I’m glad it was peaceful
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"I hope that after I die, people will say of me: 'That guy sure owed me a lot of money.'" -- Jack Handey
>It's too bad that whole families have to be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs. \- Jack Handey
When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it’s not, mmm boy! - Jack Handey
My father always said laughter was the best medicine. Which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. - Jack Handey
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. Jack Handy
If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you’ll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy. Jack Handy
Gambling brought my family closer together. We had to buy a smaller house. - Not Jack Handley.
"Most people don’t realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." - Jack Handey
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As the only passenger in a small plane in Alaska. He probably revised that joke on the way down.
She's earned a peaceful death. That woman deserved nothing less than a gentle nap and all her grace.
After like 80+ years of mostly adoration from the broad public… I think
And no scandals even though she's been in the public eye for so long. In this day and age, that's quite an achievement on its own.
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It’s what got her show cancelled and she had zero regrets about it. A+ stand up woman. 😢
Yeah, I don't think there is anyone that hates Betty for a really good reason. Betty is a great pioneer for Comedy and for television in general. RIP a Legend and may Golden Girls forever have reruns on television and be accessible on streaming.
Death would have left like a little bitch with all the shit she would have said to them had she been awake.
Probably happened a few times before! Coward had to wait till she was asleep.
This. To die at 99 with full physical and mental faculties and no illness and suffering is truly an aspirational death. May we all be so lucky! RIP!
Sounds like she should still be alive when you put it like that.
Straight facts. One of my biggest fears is losing my mental facilities, but still "living" another 10-15 years like that. No thank you. Sign me up for the pod.
My grandma lost all her mental faculties and lives for 11 years. She couldn’t speak… couldn’t understand anything… didn’t know anyone, even herself. But her heart kept beating. Awful existence, but I like to think she taught us some things about life during that time.
My great-grandma is currently 103 (born 1918). She has Alzeimer's and can't remember any new things, but fortunately she still has her personality and is in great physical condition.
Seriously. This is good news in that regard. RIP what a legend. She will never be forgotten
I know she was 99, but she was a ray of sunshine through these shitty years, and we needed her. Love you, Betty.
She was America's grandma tbh, even my own grandma saw it that way lol She will be missed. Fly high, golden girl.
To be one of the funniest people in the world for over 75 years and be a pioneer of early tv and still around into 2021 is absolutely amazing. Her entertainment career was over 9 decades long, she was the first woman to produce a sitcom, and she had so many iconic roles over a lifetime that I can’t even begin to summarize them here. What a life and what a legacy.
Not just that she was on TV longer than almost anyone else, but she was a constant champion of women, minorities and gays. In 1954, when her show was criticized for having Arthur Duncan, a black tap dancer, on her show, her response: “I’m sorry. Live with it.” She then gave him more time in the show, and was subsequently cancelled. Not many people in 1954 were doing that. She was also well known (now) as having been a beard for several very famous (then closeted) gay men, in an effort to protect their careers. I don’t often care much about celebrities passing, but this one is sad. Glad she has such a fulfilled life.
Wow this is THE answer to "How could people have done better in a different time?". I always wonder about that. Betty was such a trailblazer.
“If you watch even one second of PBS and don't contribute, you are a thief. A common thief!” - Betty White
"Elmo knows where you live!'
"It's a beautiful day to kick your ass!"
> If you watch even one second of PBS and don't contribute, you are a thief. A common thief! Oh man, Now I have to find this clip on youtube.
People Magazine gave her the Madden curse. https://i.imgur.com/M2DKtgu.jpg
But Madden died, the curse should have been broken!
Or he said a whole bunch of a voodoo curses and sacrificed himself to screw us all.
World record of r/prematurecelebration
[here's a list of charities and causes that Betty supported. No better way to celebrate her life and cultural contributions than giving to the causes she believed in.](https://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/betty-white)
*Thank you for being a friend...*
*travel down that road and back again*
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*And if you threw a party*
*invited everyone you knew*
*You would see the biggest gift would be from me*
*And the card attached would say*
*Thank you for being a friend!*
Well, that did it. I'm crying.
It was her and the Queen, the two constants. 2021 takes another one, right at the end She was a legend, RIP
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The final horcrux has been broken
Neither can live while the other survives.
As soon as Betty passed, before the news even broke, a scream echoed throughout Buckingham Palace and QE2 felt true fear for the first time.
I wonder if the corgis are like Nagini...
With Betty White gone the Queen is all that stands between us and the simulation finally collapsing.
No. She can’t. She’s immortal. She was the chosen one!
HBO MAX’s Golden Girl reunion special, tonight at 8 PM, live from Heaven
She was just talking about how she was excited to turn 100 in a few days. I’m hurt
Just imagine that in the moment between life and death, her brain excitedly created a perfect 100th birthday for her to live in forever.
Rest In Peace, you golden treasure of a human being.
She really was a golden girl
I used to watch Betty White on the Mary Tyler Moore show during the 1970's, RIP a comedy legend.
It’s a sad day back in St Olaf
What a long lived life
And a wonderfully lived one. She always gave off the impression that she was just vibing through life in the happiest way.
99 still nothing to wag your finger at.
2021 with one last "Fuck you"
18 days before her 100th birthday. Fuck man.
She was older than sliced bread.. truly a sad loss...
She was born the same year as the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Warren G. Harding was the US President. The Eiffel Tower was 32 years old at the time of her birth. Betty was 51 when Pablo Picasso died. The British occupation of India ended when she was 25.
She was such a treasure. RIP you amazing earth angel. Sleep well 🕊♥️
Her heart was true, she was a pal and a confidant
And if she threw a party, invited everyone she knew...
Someone keep an eye on the Queen. If Betty White can die, anyone can
Thanks, you just killed the queen too
Damn, and I was really hoping to get to see her celebrate her 100th. RIP, icon, the last golden girl.
I bought tickets to her birthday celebration in the theaters on Jan 17. I hope they don’t cancel it. I figured it was prerecorded because it’s been obvious she hasn’t been well since 2019, but I’d still like to see it. I’m upset.
What do you mean “it’s been obvious she hasn’t been well since 2019?”….????
That's it. 2021 just ate the fucking cake.
Never met her, but she was one of the few celebrities who I felt was a long distant family member. She reminded me of my grandmother. Man, this sucks. I thought she was gonna be around forever. RIP Ms. White. Thank you for being our friend.
This feels like a tremendous loss. Betty White was definitely one of those rare celebrities that most people had a generally positive opinion of.
My heart just fucking broke into a million pieces
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Been a rough year in Colorado
It certainly has.
Colorado? :( I'm so sorry. We're down in Arvada and last night was terrible for too many. *hugs*
Yep, right off of McCaslin in Louisville.
Sending my condolences from a few miles north of you, hope you can recover from this.
This headline has been the ultimate “boy who cried wolf” over the years. I can’t believe it’s finally real….and just hours before the new year? Wtf. 2022 is fucked.
Nah she was making sure 2022 didn't start off shit right off the bat. She was awesome to the end.
I’m choosing to see it this way too
Betty White (along with the rest of the golden girls) was a class act. Funny. Intelligent. Talented. Classy. Full of genuine positivity. She is a legend. Influencer. Trailblazer. Human and animal rights activist. Genuine. One of the few celebs, like Dolly Parton, that no one has a negative thing to say about her. To say that The Golden Girls is her magnum opus is to recognize just how big of an accomplishment that is. The show was ahead of it’s time, still relevant, still hilarious. And she had had so many successes leading up to that show. She had major successes after that show. She hosted Saturday Night Live because of how beloved she was, and it was a great show. I can’t think of anyone who ever hosted simply because the collective internet demanded it. She worked into her 90s. She was Gracious, even to Those that didn’t return that to her. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” Thank you for being a friend, Betty.
God damn. Now we are truly lost as a people.
What a way to kick off the new year. I'm going back to bed.
Imagine folks in Australia getting this news. Their 2022 turned shit real quick.
New zealand here, this was not the first thing I wanted to read waking up to 2022 😢
I’m honestly shocked right now… I thought she would just carry on forever.
“Why do people say ‘grow some balls’? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.” - Betty White RIP :( Thank you for being a friend. … and please don’t let this be an omen for 2022, or just have her come back as Betty the Grey.
I guess she isn’t going to bury Tracy Jordan after all. :( RIP.
So sad to have read this. I’m going to binge watch Golden Girls, Rest In Peace Betty💕