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
Is it me or is 2018 just as bad with famous deaths as 2016?
Mweheheh
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At least it’s not last year where everyone turned out to be a goddamn diddler.
Romanian-Canadian musician Anca Pop died in a car accident at the age of 34.
2016: You either die a hero
2017: ... or live long enough for everyone to see you as the villain
... 2018: ???
(Honestly nothing is going to beat a year where we lost Bowie and Prince)
Edited by Pachylad on Dec 22nd 2018 at 8:58:54 PM
The Video Guy
If we lost Paul and Ringo in the same year, I think that would beat it.
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.
It would beat all.
Guys, we still have over a week left.
Beware the Crazy Man.
Paddy Ashdown and Prince Talal (aka The Red Prince) bin Abdulaziz bin Saud both died.
Y'all jinxed it.
Final Fantasy, Foreign Policy, and Bollywood. Helluva combo, that...
A procrastination in of itself
Ashdown is a big loss, the man had a great history, he was a Royal Marine, a member of the SBS, a diplomat, probably a spy and then an MP, leader of the Liberal Democrats, a lord and the U.N./EU reprentative to Bosnia where he oversaw a chunk of the post-conflict state building and reconciliation process. Even after that he continued to argue for Britain to have a strong role in making the world a better place, but doing it intelligently by looking back at what had and hadn’t worked in the past, not just throwing elections at the problem and walking away.
He even wrote a book on it that I’ve got somewhere, it’s part of what pushed me towards international relations.
"And the Bunny nails it!" ~ Gabrael "If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we." ~ Cyran
Disasturbator
He'd have made a good prime minster all things considered
New theme music also a box
A procrastination in of itself
At one point he was offered a cabinet positon by Gordon Brown, not becuse the Lid Dems were wanted as coalition partners, but because Paddy himself was that well respected.
He was also a witness for the processecution during the trial of war criminals after the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Edited by Silasw on Dec 23rd 2018 at 5:36:39 PM
"And the Bunny nails it!" ~ Gabrael "If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we." ~ Cyran
I liked Paddy. He came across as meaning what he said and generally talked sense. When he changed his mind, he would state his reasons why.
He drank a bit much, had a few more flaws and made some gaffes, but all in all... He was a genuine, stand-up guy who did some spectacularly selfless things.
He will be missed. I honestly wish we had more like Paddy in the Commons today: we wouldn't be in this mess if we did.
Edited by Euodiachloris on Dec 23rd 2018 at 8:05:01 PM
Me in a nutshell (Coping with Depression)
-Breathes in-
For those who live in Indonesia, there is a disastrous event that kills around 800 people and some of the celebrity in Indonesia were pronounced dead. One of the people are the two members of Seventeen Bands and an Indonesian comedian, Argo Jimmy.
May they be rest in peace. 
Richard Overton, WW 2 veteran and the oldest American man at the time, has died at 112.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
The Wanderer
Nancy Grace Roman, involved with Hubble telescope, dies:
Laura Verreau, a cousin, confirmed Thursday that Roman died on Christmas Day after a prolonged illness. She was 93.
Actor W. Morgan Sheppard passed away yesterday at the age of 86.
Edited by lrrose on Jan 7th 2019 at 5:17:31 AM
Alfred Newman, one of last surviving Navajo Code Talkers, dies at 94.
Carol Channing of Hello Dolly and Throughly Modern Millie died Tuesday.
Edited by Ellowen on Jan 16th 2019 at 8:42:27 AM
Got a degree in Emotional trauma via fictional characters aka creative writing. hosting S'mores party in Hell for fellow (evil) writers
Mweheheh
Figure skater John Coughlin committed suicide after being suspended at the age of 33.
Welsh actor Windsor Davies died at the age of 88.
Poet Mary Oliver died of lymphoma at the age of 83.
Guitarist Chris Wilson died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 62.
Masazo Nonaka (the oldest verified man) died at 113.
Boo the Pomeranian (known as “the world’s cutest dog”) died of heart failure at the age of 12.
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Winter is not kind, but rest easy to them.
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Screaming Into The Void
Comedian Jeremy Hardy passed away Friday at the age of 57. I mostly knew him from The News Quiz panel show, he was great.
Spatsz from French Coldwave Duo Kas Product has Passed Away.
He was 61.
"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."
C.Y. Lee, author of Flower Drum Song, has passed away at 102. Dang!
Raven Wilkinson, 83, Is Dead; Black Ballerina Braved Segregated South
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Her brother, Frost Bernie Wilkinson Jr., confirmed her death but did not specify a cause.
The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was a high-profile company that toured the United States in the 1940s and ′50s, and the appearance of an African-American onstage as a Sylph or a Swan in the South could incur threats from the Ku Klux Klan. Though Ms. Wilkinson was lighter-skinned and encouraged to wear pale makeup onstage, she always refused to hide her race.
In recent years, she was a mentor and friend to Misty Copeland, who in 2015 became the first African-American ballerina to be named a principal dancer at American Ballet Theater in New York, one of the nation’s most important companies.
Ms. Copeland came across Ms. Wilkinson’s story in the 2005 film “Ballets Russes,” and credits her with having encouraged her to persevere in a field that is still heavily weighted toward white dancers. The two met in 2011, and in 2015, Ms. Wilkinson was present at Ms. Copeland’s New York debut in the lead role of “Swan Lake,” bringing her flowers onstage. Their friendship inspired Ms. Copeland’s recent children’s book, “Firebird.”
Anne Raven Wilkinson was born on Feb. 2, 1935, in Manhattan and grew up in a middle-class home in Harlem, a daughter of Frost B. and Anne J. Wilkinson. Her father was a dentist and her mother a homemaker.
Anne was 5 when she attended her first ballet, “Coppélia,” performed by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. “I remember being so overwhelmed that I started crying,” she said in an interview in 2014 with the dance writer Margaret Fuhrer in Pointe Magazine.
Her mother wanted to enroll her in the School of American Ballet in New York but was told that Anne was too young. She ended up at the private studio of Maria Swoboda, a Russian teacher who had been a member of both the Bolshoi Ballet and the Chicago Civic Opera Ballet.
Ms. Swoboda’s school was bought by Serge Denham, director of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, in 1954, and Ms. Wilkinson auditioned with the company several times, only to be rebuffed. Through a friend in the administration, she learned that the company was hesitant to hire a black dancer because of its regular tours in the segregated South.
Ms. Wilkinson soon enrolled at Columbia University, which she attended for two years, but she persisted in her attempts to join the Ballet Russe, and on her fourth try she was admitted on a trial basis.
She officially joined the company in 1955 and performed a varied repertoire, including the waltz solo in Michel Fokine’s “Les Sylphides,” the Chinese Tea dance in “The Nutcracker,” a featured role in “Raymonda” and ensemble roles in numerous one-act ballets.