The RIP thread...

I also read today that he was a financial supporter of some anti-vax thing lead by Jenny McCarthy too.

Also he was 91. My Nana lived into her nineties. I miss her but I wasn't that sad when she died. Reaching your 90s is a huge achievement. Its hardly a shock when someone that age dies. I'd been expecting her to go for years before. Lifelong drinker and smoker but stubborn enough not to die before she was good and ready.

I think competitive public mourning is a thing unfortunately. Look at how ppl lost their shit when Diana died. Then when Bowie died too. I liked his music too but its not like he was my mate. Plus you know, his music is still here.

I hope he suffered hugely in his final days.

jealous that he was a bigger hit with the laydeez than you?

I think competitive public mourning is a thing unfortunately. Look at how ppl lost their shit when Diana died. Then when Bowie died too. I liked his music too but its not like he was my mate. Plus you know, his music is still here.

George Michael case in point - he was an average at best vocalist in the fucking pop band Wham for fucks sake - people, get a grip......

I don't think anyone else pays ladies as well as Hugh did.

Always fun to read complaints about people who care about celebrity deaths, in what is essentially the care about celebrity deaths thread.

If by being a bigger hit with the laydeez you mean preying on young, emotionally vulnerable women then essentially incarcerating them whilst using them as your (and others) sexual playthings then, yeah, who wouldn't be jealous?

Idiot.

There are musicians I would be upset about dying. People who have written songs which sum up important times in my life... I might not know them personally but I feel a connection through those songs. OK, it's not logical and yes the songs remain, but I feel emotionally connected to some of these people and it will genuinely effect me when they die.

RIP Joy Fleming

https://youtu.be/4aBxWhPp5Yo

I agree with this.
I was most upset when Adam Yauch died, although I never met him.
The only other death of a famous that got me was Marco Simoncelli. I was watching the race and I'll never forget what I saw.

tl;dr what Fyoosh said.

I'm inclined to agree (Diana totally baffled me). But each of us take different things away from famous peoples lives. Lots of folk out there derived real joy from his music. His fame and subsequent coming out (whether forced or not) may have also been inspiring to many at that point in time.

Patrick Swayze's death really shocked me for some odd reason. Each to his own basically.

As for Hugh Hefner I doubt the public are seriously morning his death, but he was undoubtedly an impressive person. A persons death causes reflection on their life, whether good or bad, and gives an opportunity to reflect on our own. It now looks like John Peel was probably a bit of a nonce, he was still a good DJ. I'll still dance to Ignition when if / it gets played mate's weddings and I probably still will when R Kelly is dead.

Probably best not to know your heroes in real life - keep the illusion alive.

As others have said, a celeb death will hit you in the feels one day, then you'll suddenly understand.

What will I understand exactly?

Lots of ppl have died who I liked the work of but it's not like we were close. They didn't know anything about me.

As I said some deaths have shocked me. But really only when they're young. Plus I don't find it hard to move on from that.

But no celeb death has genuinely upset me yet. I'll be 40 next year. I'd be surprised if any do in the coming years. As I'll just get more grumpy.

I can understand if you don't get it, I'd probably never get emotional from an actor or director passing away - whilst I enjoy many films there are very few films I strongly connect with. For me music is different, when someone has produced an album that can bring you to tears, or leaves you bouncing off the walls, it leaves a connection.

I usually feel nothin, then Terry Pratchett passed away and I cried like a baby.

I was moved when John Lennon was shot. And will cry when Bob Dylan dies. That's it.

Not gonna lie, Steve Irwin was a kicker for me. Richard Whitely, too.

Actually the one that really got me was Jade Goody, although she never did anything that moved me or I cared about while she was alive. It seemed that one moment she was the picture of stupid youth getting her kit off on big brother the next she'd got cancer and died leaving behind a family. So young, just something really sad about that.

I welcome the sweet embrace of death to all, famous or not.

Lol

I have a mental list of a few to whom I would welcome it more, but they aren't so much for a requiescat in pace thread so much as the RIT thread. RIT = Remain in Torment, obvs.

There is no torment after life, life is torment and the blissful nothingness of death, it's inevitable release.

'I was moved when John Lennon was shot. And will cry when Bob Dylan dies.'

I won't, he's a cunt.

That's what I believe, too, but in a certain few cases I hope to be wrong, so the fuckers can stew in their own boiling urine for all eternity.