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 ?

  • Katrisia@lemmy.today
    1·
    2 days ago

    Michael Jackson and Matthew Perry, because both died by overdosing on medication that was meant to help them.

    They had sad and hard periods in their life, but they both wanted to be okay and to be happy! They did everything we are told to: reach out, ask for help, follow doctors orders.

    …It feels so unfair, they feel like lives interrupted (as many many others). So them, even though I am not a fan.

    • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
      10·
      4 days ago

      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

    • Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 days ago

      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.

  • dan1101@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Chris Cornell, he always seemed like a classy and cool if somewhat aloof guy, extremely talented vocalist.

    • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      It’s extra unsettling when a 50+ year old commits suicide. This was someone who had a thriving career, loved by millions, had a family and kids. It just shows that you have to take care of your mental health. It’s not going to magically get better with age.

  • morriscox@lemmy.world
    31·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • kalleboo@lemmy.world
    7·
    3 days ago

    Douglas Adams.

    That was the first time it really hit home to me how much it hurts to lose real talent from this world.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      2·
      2 days ago

      Yes! His early death was tragic.

      We could have had several more Dirk Gently mysteries, and the Guide Trilogy could have been even more inaccurately counted, by now. RIP Adams.

  • sunbeam60@feddit.uk
    10·
    3 days ago

    I dont know why, but Sean Lock, a U.K. stand-up comedian who was the backbone of a couple of U.K. panel shows. He never spoke about his illness, but lost a lot of weight and then suddenly gone. I still watch and laugh out loud from the many, many laugh out loud moments of his career.

  • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
    25·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • pulsey@feddit.org
    3·
    3 days ago

    For some reason Heath Ledger. I loved the movie A Knights Tale as a kid. Watched it many times.

    I think it was the first real celebrity death that I conciously experienced.

    • Panda@lemmy.today
      2·
      2 days ago

      Same here. I loved A Knight’s Tale and 10 Things I Hate About You so much and I watched it many times a as kid. My then sister in law told me about the news and I didn’t believe her until I heard the news on the radio.

  • iguessimlemming@lemmy.ml
    38·
    4 days ago

    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.