For me it was Cheater Bennington. Linkin Park music helped me through some hard times and I know some of the more impactful lyrics came from him and what he experienced.
Knowing he couldn’t take it anymore definitely hit Me hard particularly as someone I looked up to from young age …
Who was yours ?
Michael Jackson and Matthew Perry, because both died by overdosing on medication that was meant to help them.
They had sad and hard periods in their life, but they both wanted to be okay and to be happy! They did everything we are told to: reach out, ask for help, follow doctors orders.
…It feels so unfair, they feel like lives interrupted (as many many others). So them, even though I am not a fan.
Robin Williams
Same. He was such a down to earth person. He was incredibly famous, but he didn’t think he was above anyone. He was a truly good person. RIP Robin
After hearing he had Lewey Body disease and it was very advanced. It was crippling to comprehend.
My adult kids got together with their friends to watch Aladdin that night.
Fuck. I’ve watched Dead Poets’ Society for the first time maybe a month ago without having had the ending spoiled. Oof. The look on Robin Williams face in the end scene. That torment in his eyes may just have been real and not just acting.
Robin Williams, on my birthday. Great guy, a gamer, and knew his way around computers. It might not have hit as hard if it hadn’t been my birthday.
You might want to edit Chester
why? he knows what he did. we’ll never forget that show in '03
Margaret Thatcher.
What a happy fucking day.
Had me in the first half…
Terry Pratchett
Steve Irwin
Same. I’ll never forget that day. :(
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Dude, not the fucking thread for that
Chris Cornell, he always seemed like a classy and cool if somewhat aloof guy, extremely talented vocalist.
It’s extra unsettling when a 50+ year old commits suicide. This was someone who had a thriving career, loved by millions, had a family and kids. It just shows that you have to take care of your mental health. It’s not going to magically get better with age.
Leonard Nimoy. Grew up with a lot of Star Trek. Both him and Keanu Reeves helped me understand that it’s entirely fine to be introverted.
As I understood it, Nimoy’s death was from lung problems that developed as a result of his smoking habit - even though he had quit smoking many years prior that. It was the catalyst I needed to finally say, “I can’t wait anymore, time may already be up. I need to quit smoking now.” And that was when I finally did quit smoking and make it stick.
Anthony Bourdain
David Bowie. I really mourned him, didn’t expect to feel so strongly about someone I never met. Feel like the world got significantly duller and darker since he took off.
Everything went to shit after Bowie died
Took a lot of scrolling to see his name. And I couldn’t have phrased it better.
Douglas Adams.
That was the first time it really hit home to me how much it hurts to lose real talent from this world.
Yes! His early death was tragic.
We could have had several more Dirk Gently mysteries, and the Guide Trilogy could have been even more inaccurately counted, by now. RIP Adams.
I don’t know if he counts as a celebrity but, Aaron Swartz.
It’s actually Swartz, not schwartz
And I even pasted the wiki article. Thanks, I corrected it.
Thanks for not insulting my mother when you were wrong :)
I dont know why, but Sean Lock, a U.K. stand-up comedian who was the backbone of a couple of U.K. panel shows. He never spoke about his illness, but lost a lot of weight and then suddenly gone. I still watch and laugh out loud from the many, many laugh out loud moments of his career.
Terry Pratchett
His documentary on assisted dying is a brilliant watch.
Interesting, I’ll keep in mind
