Celebrity Deaths You Actually Mourned

I'm not one who falls victim to celebrity worship at the drop of a hat. I think many celebrities are useless, talentless hacks who are only famous for the talent of selling more products and making rich people more money.

Yet there are a few ones who I have great appreciation for. And I did mourn their passing. A few celebrity deaths that upset me were:

Hunter. S Thompson (Author)
Adam Yauch (Beastie Boys MCA)
H.R. Giger (Artist and sculptor)

This is my list for now; I'll add a few more as I remember them.

 

Dr. Seuss is the only celebrity I can recall mourning

I've celebrated some others after their passing by watching, listening, etc. to their work.

 

Jerry Garcia
Patrick Swayze
Chris Farley
Freddie Mercury
Richard Wright
All I can really remember off the top , maybe Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash to young and busy for Frank Zappa but aware..

 

i'm not really big on morning deaths at all. nor afternoon ones. we all go eventually, and i figure sooner or later i will too.

i could rattle off a list of names of people who did things i liked when they were alive, but i mean, i don't see much point in it.

and celebrity is just a circumstance because people are crazy anyway.

i pay more attention to science fiction writers then to actors. i don't think i could even name anyone currently popular in acting. or music either.
there's also a lot of my favorite people i don't know if they're still living or not.

i know r.a.lafferty died in 2002, and i know asamov is gone. doug adams died much too young, and i know poul anderson is gone.
fred poul i think is gone, but i'm not sure. likewise kelly freas.
i also don't know if a certain distant relative of mine who's mundane name was konigsberg is still alive or not.
and then there's a certain jazz musician who held meetings of a small religion i was a member of once, held at his house, probably gone but i don't know for sure.
i guess i could reconnect and find out, but i really don't want to.
the grand parents of a certain costumer who's alive and well who also lived closer to where i do now, might or might not be.
there's an old guy i've met who from time to time has been kind of imfamous for dodgie real estate deals, who looked as old the first time i met him as he did the most recent time,
these times being 50 years apart. who's wives aged normally even if he didn't.
i wonder if lithgow is still around. i know bob zimmerman is long gone. his mother was a fantasy author and i'm pretty sure she's gone.
carrol cherreh ought to be still around. i wonder about april bellows, you know her by another name too of course.
there's that guy someone once claimed to have mistaken me for, he was in ce3k among other things, i'm guessing he's still around but i don't know.
there's an artist who hasn't looked well for a number of years, who's still going, and more power to him.
for someone who isn't any more social then myself, there do seem to be a goodly number of people i've run into from time to time if i stop and think about it.
both my parents and the wife i once had are gone now. not as certain about my couple of loves before her though.
of course they'd be just as old as me if they are.

hmmm. no i never got much into the celebrity thing, or morning people when they pass.
i mean why feel sorry for myself because they do?

we know the body goes into the ground or otherwise disposed of,
but we only pretend to know about the spirit.

there are dumb things that i sometimes like to cry about. things that i miss from the past, and dumb things that people do now.
people you're ever likely to have heard about, or just people in general, aren't usually among them.

 

I don't mourn the death of anyone.

 

i think that's a good way to be. we might miss someone a little, but to morn them, its really the loss of them to ourselves anyway.

howard zinn and carl sagan, i could say i miss their public voice. and bob ross and mr rogers. i can probably keep coming up with names, but i don't think morn is really the concept. and i find it impossible not to question the sincerity of those who say they do.

 

Acknowledged and reminisce would probably be better words other celebrities would include Alexander Shulgin, Albert Hoffman, Jack Herer..

 

Dimebag Darrell
I thought it was a joke when I heard it first. Just insane and unexpected.

Also, to some degree, Robin Williams was way unexpected. Not that i was a die hard fan.. liked his stuff.. but just the way it happened is what made it stick in my head!

 

Christopher Reeve, and nothing to do with his accident or everything after

Becuase back in his heyday in the Superman suit, he was my first big celebrity crush, and by crush as a horny teen, I mean fap fodder

 

John Lennon !!

 

I've never mourned any celebrity death. I didn't know them.

 

yes lennon and williams, i count those as losses. i just think celebrity is crazy silliness though. and the people you know personally and the people who maybe not everybody knows but who have done things well that are things you're personally interested in, i think those are really more important. that's why i say science fiction authors, architects, other kinds of artists not so much in the public eye as entertainers.

lemonaide coyote, was an ambulance driver/paramedic, who was killed when his abulance on its way to a rescue with sirens and lights going, got t-boned at an intersection. i forget his mundane name. the city where he worked named a street after him. i forget all the details.

another furry hero, was, i forget the guys name, but he died by saving the life of his girl friend who was the sister of a costumer i know of, by pushing her out of the way of a drunk driver who was speeding through a residential intersection.

 

Ya know, the only one I mourned was Michael Jackson.

Otherwise, I'm the type of person that doesn't really mourn deaths.

 

I'd probably cry if Betty White died though, I adore her!

 

crocodile hunter

he was out there being a spokesman for them as well as for many other animals.....

 

I was pretty bummed when Jerry Garcia died. I was sad about him dying but also about what I thought it meant....the end of an era in my life. As it turned out, it was the beginning of a different era that was still related and much fun. Still miss Jerry. It didn't occur to me until a couple of months later that I was at his last show he ever played. Still have the ticket stub in my collection.

 

I was sad about Princess Di. The way she died was too sad.....

 

I don't know if I'd go as far to compare my feelings to full blown mourning or grief but I felt deeply affected by the loss of Mitch Hedberg in 2005 and most recently Robin Williams. Mitch Hedberg's comedy was new to me when he passed away but it was helping me out of a dark place so his death couldn't have happened at a worse time. Robin Williams is one I can't exactly explain, but I don't think I've ever felt so personally affected by any other celebrity death. It felt like losing a distant family member, as I'm sure it did for a lot of his fans. The world just doesn't seem right knowing he isn't around anymore.

 

I'm not convinced that she wasn't assassinated to get her out of the picture.

 

i was bothered that she died, and it did seem quite possible, her campaign against land mines when everybody else wanted to fight wars and not give a dam about civilian casualties. i was also bothered that mother therisa's passing within a couple of weeks of her, received almost no press coverage at all.

i'm not a catholic or even a christian, but these were both people who had been doing things for others.