The Chapel of Rest

[teddyboy23]

Lester piggot

[zenoria65]

Patricia Brake - The Glums, Eldorado, Midsomer Murders, but probably best known for playing Fletcher's daughter in Porridge....

[Castleton]

Paula Rego..RIP

[ianr]

"In March this year a male taken from Yorkshire and a female from Scotland were released into Forty Hall Farm, Enfield.

"It was hoped the pair [of beavers] would mate, but on Friday the male was found dead. ... confirmed ... natural causes" https://uk.news.yahoo.com/beavers-saved-extinction-dead-essex-park-124505905.html

[IlonaM]

Bernard Cribbins has passed away aged 93. Fantastic narrator on children's shows like the Wombles

https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/bernard-cribbins-actor-dies-doctor-who-wombles-narrator-aged-93-b1015201.html

[malumbu]

Mortimer squawked "Nevermore". Fond memories

[Castleton]

Nichelle Nichols-

Ltn Uhuru in the original Star Trek. Trailblazer

[Castleton]

Olivia Newton John, only 73

[SpringTime]

You better shape up, or it might get physical.

[SpringTime]

[Spartacus]

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Olivia Newton John, only 73

 

Whilst her passing is sad on a level that touches those who remember her fondly, I can't help thinking of all the unnamed victims of cancer who died yesterday and that their passing won't be remembered by the world's media.

[ctovey]

Judith Durham of The Seekers passed 5 August

[Castleton]

Lamont Dozier, sad news.

[Castleton]

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Olivia Newton John, only 73

 

Whilst her passing is sad on a level that touches those who remember her fondly, I can't help thinking of all the unnamed victims of cancer who died yesterday and that their passing won't be remembered by the world's media.

 

You could say that about a lot of this list, not really the point

[diable rouge]

Spartacus, do you think about all the unnamed victims of cancer who died, on the days when no one well known has died from cancer?...

[Spartacus]

  diable rouge said:

Spartacus, do you think about all the unnamed victims of cancer who died, on the days when no one well known has died from cancer?...

 

Anytime someone famous dies and the media goes to town, I think about all the other deaths that occur where there won't be any major recognition.

Like birth and taxes, death is a given occurance and an occupational hazard of life and the fact that everyone morns someone who the saw once in a film or on telly or in the paper just makes me think how voyaristic we are as a species especially as only a very few of those deaths impact us as individuals beyond uttering "I liked him/her in ..."

Think what you will but be honest, how does famous people falling off their perch really impact you unless you knew them personally and last saw them in the dirty duck over a pint ?

[jazzer]

It is with deep sadness that the death of Lamont Dozier on 8th August 2022 has been reported. He was 81. Song writer, Producer and Artist.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62474956

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/09/lamont-dozier-motown-songwriter-dies-age-81#:~:text=Lamont%20Dozier%2C%20the%20Motown%20legend,has%20been%20released%20as%20yet.

[SpringTime]

Raymond Briggs. Amazing craft, colour, atmosphere, emotion, and magic.

[diable rouge]

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Think what you will but be honest, how does famous people falling off their perch really impact you unless you knew them personally and last saw them in the dirty duck over a pint ?

 

You don't have to know someone personally for their death to have some kind of impact.

The footballer who was a little boy's childhood hero.

The singer who's song was playing in the background when someone had their first kiss.

Do you need to know an author personally to be affected by a book they've written?

Do you need to know an artist personally to be affected by one of their paintings?

And so on.

People we don't know personally can be a part of our lives and affect who we are, so why would anyone not want to remember them?

I suspect part of that remembering is a mourning for their own past childhood/adulthood memories rather than the person per se...

[wordsworth]

  diable rouge said:

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Think what you will but be honest, how does famous people falling off their perch really impact you unless you knew them personally and last saw them in the dirty duck over a pint ?

 

You don't have to know someone personally for their death to have some kind of impact.

The footballer who was a little boy's childhood hero.

The singer who's song was playing in the background when someone had their first kiss.

Do you need to know an author personally to be affected by a book they've written?

Do you need to know an artist personally to be affected by one of their paintings?

And so on.

People we don't know personally can be a part of our lives and affect who we are, so why would anyone not want to remember them?

I suspect part of that remembering is a mourning for their own past childhood/adulthood memories rather than the person per se...

 

Can't help but agree with that

[jazzer]

Just been reported in the last hour or so, Darius Campbell Danesh: Pop Idol and West End star dies aged 41. Way to young to die at that age.

[SpringTime]

Darya Dugina passed away quietly last night. Our thoughts must be with her noble father Alexsandr Dugin during this difficult time.

Jedem das seine.

[malumbu]

Rather bad taste.

[SpringTime]

Hardly. She was a genocidal maniac like her father. You reap what you sow.

Whether it's a Kremlin sponsored false flag or craft of the NRA the Kremlin will use it as a free rein against Ukraine this week any way.

That's bad taste.

[malumbu]

It's a thread for remembering people that we were fond of. Start another thread by all means.