For me it was Cheater Bennington. Linkin Park music helped me through some hard times and I know some of the more impactful lyrics came from him and what he experienced.
Knowing he couldn’t take it anymore definitely hit Me hard particularly as someone I looked up to from young age …
Who was yours ?
Robin Williams
Same. He was such a down to earth person. He was incredibly famous, but he didn’t think he was above anyone. He was a truly good person. RIP Robin
After hearing he had Lewey Body disease and it was very advanced. It was crippling to comprehend.
My adult kids got together with their friends to watch Aladdin that night.
Fuck. I’ve watched Dead Poets’ Society for the first time maybe a month ago without having had the ending spoiled. Oof. The look on Robin Williams face in the end scene. That torment in his eyes may just have been real and not just acting.
Steve Irwin
Same. I’ll never forget that day. :(
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Dude, not the fucking thread for that
I don’t know if he counts as a celebrity but, Aaron Swartz.
It’s actually Swartz, not schwartz
And I even pasted the wiki article. Thanks, I corrected it.
Thanks for not insulting my mother when you were wrong :)
Chadwick Boseman. I was 24 when he died. I’m mixed and a huge nerd. He was one of the first times I saw representation like that in a comic book hero in a movie or TV show. T’Challa was a king, and his death came out of nowhere
Terry Pratchett
His documentary on assisted dying is a brilliant watch.
Interesting, I’ll keep in mind
Anthony Bourdain
He was so deeply human and drew out the things from others that made them most human. This despite his epic battles with himself.
David Bowie. I really mourned him, didn’t expect to feel so strongly about someone I never met. Feel like the world got significantly duller and darker since he took off.
Took a lot of scrolling to see his name. And I couldn’t have phrased it better.
Everything went to shit after Bowie died
Robin Williams, on my birthday. Great guy, a gamer, and knew his way around computers. It might not have hit as hard if it hadn’t been my birthday.
Probably Chris Cornell. (I’m old)
It hit Chester hard too
Yeah, I know that they were close. 😢
Came to say this. Guess I’m old
I was at a Devin Townsend concert when the news broke. I remember it well
Phil Hartman
I remember the day. So sad. My husband still gets emotional when the topic comes up.
I wonder if Joe Rogan would be less of an idiot if Phil had lived? Probably not. At one taping of News Radio when Rogan did the warmup he said, “i just flew in from the million man march and boy is my hatred of white people tired.” We should have known.
Trevor Moore
Yeah, that guy was really ahead of his time.
He came as he went
Margaret Thatcher.
What a happy fucking day.
Had me in the first half…
Taking the question literally, I’ll say Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
She was on HELL of a legal mind but goddammit why didn’t she retire when Obama could have appointed her replacement. The fucking hubris.
Here’s your hero, a lot more wrong than simple hubris
she was a horrible racist ghoul among many awful things
I don’t doubt that, I haven’t looked into it, but her life didn’t affect me as strongly as her death.
Why would her death affect you if you don’t know about her life?
That makes zero sense.Because the timing of her death triggered the court to (eventually) go majority bonkers.
Mitch Hedberg
Sorry for the convenience.
This one was one of the 1st celebrity deaths to impact me. The worst part was he was not very well known at the time, so nobody knew who I was talking about when I said stuff like “I can’t believe Mitch Hedberg died” which sucked. There was only a couple people I knew that even knew who he was.
Leonard Nimoy. Grew up with a lot of Star Trek. Both him and Keanu Reeves helped me understand that it’s entirely fine to be introverted.
As I understood it, Nimoy’s death was from lung problems that developed as a result of his smoking habit - even though he had quit smoking many years prior that. It was the catalyst I needed to finally say, “I can’t wait anymore, time may already be up. I need to quit smoking now.” And that was when I finally did quit smoking and make it stick.
