People die every day. Some of them are famous, some important, many newsworthy. This thread is for announcements of deaths in the news, discussions of the legacy of those recently deceased people, and memorials of same.
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To start with, the last of the original Von Trapp Singers has died, Maria Von Trapp, 99, in Vermont. (This is the daughter of Captain Von Trapp, not her stepmother who was also named Maria. In the musical, they called her Louisa.)
http://news.yahoo.com/maria-von-trapp-99-dies-vermont-005546425.html
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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:28:19 AM
Damn, that really sucks. RIP. At least he's jamming with his brother in the afterlife now.
Lots to say on him. Nobody, least of all Ellison I believe, would want his nastier aspects whitewashed. He was a famous asshole who never met a bridge he couldn't nuke in lieu of burning, he dicked around a lot of writers for his anthologies and most infamously groped Connie Willis in public at a Hugo Awards show.
He could also be a warm individual, fought for the Equal Rights Act, was a Freedom Writer and helped a lot of younger writers get their start. Very influential writer, too.
Disasturbator
rip Mr Ellison
New theme music also a box
The Video Guy
Ellison was just like every other celeb, no more or less an asshole than anyone else.
Who are the ones that we kept in charge? Killers, thieves, and lawyers. God's away, god's away, god's away on business... business.
Most other celebrities don't publicly grope other Sci fi writers.
The Video Guy
There are other ways of being an asshole.
Who are the ones that we kept in charge? Killers, thieves, and lawyers. God's away, god's away, god's away on business... business.
He was the guest of honor at a small science fiction convention I was at. Very funny, lots of great stories, and we didn't have any "incidents" because he had efficient and attentive handlers with him at all times. Same year as that groping incident brought up, and I saw people from our con committee nodding their heads and saying that round-the-clock personal handlers was the best decision they'd made that year.
Former MSNBC host Ed Schultz is dead at 64 from natural causes.
Edited by TheRoguePenguin on Jul 5th 2018 at 11:31:37 AM
Captionless One
Steve Ditko, legendary comic book artist and co-creator of Spider-Man, has died at age 90.
Edited by Sivartis on Jul 6th 2018 at 5:09:00 AM
♭What.
Never Trust
Another person who, like Ellison combined the traits of genius and asshole. He was a hardline Objectivist who grew increasingly unstable as he aged. But damn his backgrounds. But both Spiderman and Dr. Strange wouldn't have been what they were without him and The Question wouldn't have existed at all.
Edited by tricksterson on Jul 7th 2018 at 4:51:24 AM
Trump delenda est
Former NHL goalie Ray Emery has died in a drowning accident at 35! So awful! R.I.P. 
http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/24106449/former-goalie-ray-emery-drowns-swimming
The Wanderer
Denis Ten, Olympic figure skating medalist, stabbed to death:
Ten was stabbed after a dispute with people who allegedly tried to steal a mirror from his car in his home city of Almaty, Kazakh news agencies reported.
Doctors in Almaty say he died in a hospital there. He was 25.
Edited by rmctagg09 on Jul 19th 2018 at 7:09:25 AM
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YEEEEAH— no.
Japanese screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto, known for his work on Rashomon and The Seven Samurai among other films, has passed at the age of 100.
Deranged X-Mas Figure
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Full disclosure. Seven Samurai is one of my favorite films of all time. Not only is it a fantastic film, but it means a lot to me personally. So this? This hurts.
Oh, my...but what a storied career and a long life.
The Wanderer
Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga, Critic of Wartime Internment, Is Dead at 93:
Her death was confirmed by her daughter Lisa Furutani.
Mrs. Herzig Yoshinaga’s discovery of a document in the National Archives contributed to the 1983 decision by a Federal District Court in California to void a wartime verdict against Fred Korematsu, who had refused the blanket evacuation order of Japanese-Americans from sensitive military zones, and the convictions of two others, Gordon Hirabayashi and Minoru Yasui in similar cases.
The document she discovered was apparently the only remaining original version of a 1943 government report that refuted the Pentagon’s claim that the evacuation was a military necessity.
The discovery was part of research that helped lead to a congressional commission’s conclusion in 1983 that the wartime internment was, instead, prompted by “race prejudice, war hysteria and the failure of political leadership.”
Lawler was 46, while Peruzovic was 70.
"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
This is a very obscure one, but it's personally important to me and probably for a few other tropers.
Hidenori Shibao, veteran Japanese game designer and writer, died in April of this year. He worked on such games as Paladin's Quest and — one of my top favorites and a Cult Classic — the original Legend of Legaia.
Disasturbator
Barry Chuckle (Entertainer) has died,he was 73
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Acclaimed Trinidadian writer and Nobel Prize winner VS Naipaul has died.
A controversial man, to be certian.
Vinnie Paul Abbott, drummer for Metal bands Panter A, Damageplan, and Hellyeah, has passed away at the age of 54.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8462386/vinnie-paul-dead-pantera-damageplan-hellyeah