The Notable Death Thread

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  1. minstrel

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    Too soon? Yeah, probably.
     
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    Probably Brit-centric, this one. But still, guy was a bit of a legend.

    Nicholas Parsons, dead at 96.
     
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    I like the "short illness" part. It's like, yeah, he was sick, but not super sick, and he was really old, so, thanks for not drawing things out, bud!
     
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    Mary Higgins Clark, 92.
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    Not that I am familiar with her work as a Suspense writer, but I have heard of her.
    And I found out she passed recently.
     
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    Very sad indeed. I loved his work.

    I wonder what will happen to "The Silmarillion" now, whether we will see it on the big screen.
     
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    MARY HIGGINS CLARK DIED!?!??! Oh that hit me right in the heart. And Kirk Douglas?!

    I need to lie down.
     
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    RIP to Miss Willona, Janet Jackson's TV mom, singer of The Jeffersons' theme song, actor/singer/songwriter/producer Jeannette Dubois passed at 74.

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    Me also. I rarely post in this thread because to be quite frank I don’t really see the point. Most posts are hypocritical anyway because they’re only submitted because people like to be the one announcing a famous death. Anyway, Flack’s suicide was awful. I don’t follow celeb culture and I had no real interest in her or her career, but.... I dunno. Awful.
     
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    I'm ambivalent about it - yes its very sad for her family, but celebrity suicides get a disproportionate amount of attention. 71 British veterans and serving members took their own lives in 2018, with around the same number last year, in the US nearly 6000 veterans took their own lives on top of 275 serving personnel in the same period... the press hardly noticed.

    is a celebrity like Flack who is basically famous for being famous really of greater value to society or their death more worthy of comment than men and women who have served their country and then been left to deal with the consequences ?
     
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    Certainly not, but that’s the nature of celebrity and fame for you. You’re not famous, your death - however it comes about (barring foul play, of course) - will go unannounced.
     
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    Larry Tesler. Not exactly a name to conjure with, but this man's contribution to society affects every single one of us on this forum. He's the man who invented copy/cut/paste/. He died this week at the age of 74. I used that very function to create this post! Thank you, Mr Tesler. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/20/tech/larry-tesler-obituary-copy-paste-trnd/index.html
     
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    A true hero.
     
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    Katherine Johnson, 1950-60s NASA math wizard, Medal of Freedom recipient, and one of the subject characters of the 2016 biographical movie Hidden Figures died Feb 24, at 101 years old.

    Early in the movie, she's portrayed as a child walking down a dirt road in West Virginia reciting prime numbers; and then she passes on one- 101.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/katherine-johnson-hidden-figure-at-nasa-during-1960s-space-race-dies-at-101/ar-BB10kABC?ocid=spartandhp
     
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    Novelist Clive Cussler dead at 88.

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    It's something we deal with in relative silence. Most know we serve for a set number of years. Most don't know that many suffer those set years the rest of their lives.
     
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    This is why I'm giving 10% of the profit from my Dusty Miller series to Help for Heroes (admittedly that was both halves of jack shit in tax year 18/19, and is looking like being about 100 notes in 19/20... but I'll still stand by it if i ever get that elusive best seller)... i don't want to hijack the thread, but the amount of Tommy this and Tommy that in society really boils my piss
     
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    Not this Dyson:

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    This one:

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    James Lipton, the host of Inside the Actors' Studio, has died.

    I always liked watching his interviews. They weren't the sort that were full of hardball questions designed to reveal dark secrets, but the man was clearly well-prepared and did a good job of eliciting information that the viewer might otherwise be unaware of.

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    Max Von Sydow died this morning. I spent quite a while following his prolific career all the way from Sweden. Huge loss for me and many others I'm sure.

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