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If we're really unlucky, maybe Bill Murray or Adam Sandler? I'm just doing a blind guess, since this year took a few legends out already.
 
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SITHRAK! said:
A lot of these kids don’t really have a direction in life. They grow up rich and unchallenged and it’s the boredom that kills them. Some via drugs, some via suicide, some via car accidents or whatever.

I believe it was Nietzsche who opined that “when there is peace, the warlike man fights against himself”. So it is with these listless, aimless, rootless celebrity children. Without obstacles they’ve overcome, they have no achievements in which to take pride. Their lives are a hollow mockery- reward without effort, success without work, and nothing to fill their days if they do not map out a future aimed at success.

Can you imagine being born with millions on tap and not saying to yourself “lack of money is the biggest obstacle to people’s dreams- I am going to dedicate my life to X” where X could be studying history, or medicine, or restoring classic aircraft, or building furniture, or starting a charity… the closest most of them get to doing something creative is going into ’fashion design’, surely the epitome of empty, pointless consumption dressed up in the garb of ‘creativity’.

It’s also why many of them are attracted to certain political views, as these are fashionable, and allow them to vicariously experience the ’struggles’ of the poor people. While at the same time these ‘poor’ people are often well-paid academics and the scions of well-off, middle-class families themselves. The layers of delusion run deep.

I feel zero sympathy for these rich kids that self-annihilate. Their lucky draw in life means they can be anything they want, and they choose to be dead. So be it.

EDIT: add Michael Madsen’s 26 year old son, Hudson, to the list. An hour and a quarter after I posted the above rant, too.
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You're absolutely right. I still feel a little sympathy for the parents though. Even if some of them are total shitheads, many of them had that motivation to do something and make something of themselves in the world, even if it's something vapid like being a celeb or becoming obscenely rich. They worked for it and they want to give their kids everything, and turns out that is the worst thing you can do.

And if you're really unlucky your shithead kid kills himself on his birthday or on Christmas or something as an extra punch in the gut.
 
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Nut-Roaster the 2nd said:
If we're really unlucky, maybe Bill Murray or Adam Sandler? I'm just doing a blind guess, since this year took a few legends out already.
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Some people have been saying Gary Rossington. He's the last surviving original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd. He had emergency heart surgery back in October. He's 70 so that doesn't sound too good.

All his limbs were and his pelvis were broken in the 1977 plane crash. His drug problems got worse after that because of pain medication. He's lucky to still be alive at all.
 
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RIP Howard Hesseman, who played DJ Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinatti and Charlie Moore, the teacher on the first four seasons of Head of the Class, dead at 81 from complications from colon surgery.
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One of my father’s favorite characters on WKRP, right next to the President of the radio station. He used to watch that a lot in his younger years.

At least Howard had fun playing the heck out of this role.

 
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Former Miss USA winner (2019) takes the plunge.

Quadroon Cheslie Kryst bows out of life at age 30. Lawyer, beauty queen, c-grade ‘entertainment’ reporter, unmarried and without kids. Spent the last few years talking about mental health and self-care.

The best thing anyone can do for their mental health is truly assess what’s valuable to them, them pursue that goal. I feel as though this woman, despite having the trappings of success, did not want them.

She probably found herself alone and unwilling to settle for anything but the top 0.01% of the male population, and facing a lonely, childless life in a job she really wasn’t passionate about, decided to end it before she was completely surpassed by the new generation of beautiful young things.

Now we wait for the inevitable articles on how white privilege and toxic masculinity prevented her from finding a man to share her life with.

It’s sad, as she was slim and I would have had sex with her.


(…but the ambulance and cops got there first…)
 
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albert the programmer said:
One of my father’s favorite characters on WKRP, right next to the President of the radio station. He used to watch that a lot in his younger years.

At least Howard had fun playing the heck out of this role.

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That show was on constantly in reruns when I was in high school. I fucking loved it. Losing Dr. Johnny Fever is a real bummer.
 
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I probably would have enjoyed WKRP in Cincinatti if it had aired starting around 1986 or so. It's not a show I remember seeing in reruns growing up (the local CBC station somehow thought Three's Company was appropriate for weekday afterschool reruns instead) and I think it's one of those sitcoms that you can't watch intact on home video or streaming due to music rights having long expired.
 
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NewRetroVagina23 said:
William Shatner, sometime this year, no earlier than September and no later than New Year's.
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The man literally went to space, bane posts and knows Wil Wheaton is a lolcow.
When he dies, the nerd community will truly suffer, to the point, many a lightsabre will be swung in his honor (also he was a fucking riot in fan boys)

TekWar sucks Billy, and I don't wish you death for it, but when you die, I'll just be glad you can't pick the pen back up to do a sequal.
 
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Bassomatic said:
The man literally went to space, bane posts and knows Wil Wheaton is a lolcow.
When he dies, the nerd community will truly suffer, to the point, many a lightsabre will be swung in his honor (also he was a fucking riot in fan boys)

TekWar sucks Billy, and I don't wish you death for it, but when you die, I'll just be glad you can't pick the pen back up to do a sequal.
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Don't blame me, I saw it offhand in a dream that wasn't even primarily about him.
 
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Oats12345 said:
I had dreams of a celebritiy dieing before in the past (for some weird reason). They never come true for me.
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I don't recall ever dreaming about a dead celeb before this. Though that obviously doesn't mean much (we humans dream and forget in almost equal measure, save only a few particularly intense or memorable ones). Realistically, what's the worse that happens either way? Either the dude dies in ~8 months and somebody posts the X-Files theme or absolutely nothing happens and no less than three separate people call me a faggot inside a half hour the day after New Year's.

Either way, the world keeps on spinning and the incident is forgotten about by mid February.
 
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NewRetroVagina23 said:
I don't recall ever dreaming about a dead celeb before this. Though that obviously doesn't mean much (we humans dream and forget in almost equal measure, save only a few particularly intense or memorable ones). Realistically, what's the worse that happens either way? Either the dude dies in ~8 months and somebody posts the X-Files theme or absolutely nothing happens and no less than three separate people call me a faggot inside a half hour the day after New Year's.

Either way, the world keeps on spinning and the incident is forgotten about by mid February.
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I know. I was just bringing it up about my own experience in the past with dreaming about a dead celeb. Which only happen two times for me so far. And in both cases they never really ment anything. Weirdly one of the celebs I dream of dieing was a Disney channel actor for some reason.
 
Oats12345 said:
I had dreams of a celebritiy dieing before in the past (for some weird reason). They never come true for me.
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A few moths ago I dreamed that I watched tv and a newsreporter said that Johnny Depp died.

Probably not going to happen any time soon because I don't watch tv. That's why I know the dream is unrealistic.
 
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