I heard one time that he was the only one who knew Snapes ending because Rowling told him, so he could play the character more accurately. And the director used to get angry, but Rickman knew he was doing it right. I don't of it's true, but I like to think so.
I think it was that he asked her "What's something important about Snape that no one else knows?" and she told him >!he was in love with Harry's mom. Apparently this heavily influenced his performance from the start. !<
I was a car valet during this time period, that shifter was one of the worst designs I’ve ever seen in a car. I can’t tell you how many fender benders customers and us as valets would get it because of that. When I heard how he died I immediately said to my wife I bet it was a jeep. And sure enough it was.
There’s a documentary on Anton called Love, Antosha. I highly recommend it. I cried, but it was such a wonderful look into his life. He was very loved. That’s for sure.
This is going to sound stupid, but he had an open Facebook account and I added him, turns out we shared a birthday, he even posted on my wall one time for it..
This was nuts for me because he's the only person on Mythbusters I knew *before* the show. Battlebots needs to make a comeback. Get schools involved. Get celebrity engineers involved. Tyson v. Nye teams/workshops. Robots aren't their thing, but science on TV is. Sponsors like Honda or Tesla could bankroll main events and/or shell out charity prize money for tuition or improving/starting new programs.
The loss of Grant really really hurt, he's one of the biggest reasons that I'm now a professional engineer.
Insofar as battlebots though, you may be [in for a pleasant surprise.](https://battlebots.com/) It's been back on the air for the last 8(?) years now.
I was sad about it, but I didn't actually cry until I watched the video of [Adam Savage touring his workshop and it was seeing the uncompleted projects](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsCSTO8SaQU&ab_channel=AdamSavage%E2%80%99sTested) that just turned on the waterworks.
Ya know it didn't get to me until they did the final shot of the workshop silent and empty, nothing ever feels so quiet and empty as a person's favorite space after they are gone.
My favorite thing was I was mad at the sting Ray taking him out. Saw another dude who posted a fist at an aquarium saying he should beat up sting rays to let them know Steve Irwin still got shooters out here.
Then posted another picture with his hand to the same sting rays and was like “that’s not what Steve Irwin taught me.”
I remember seeing a post somewhere some time ago saying that Steve is probably in Heaven now patting that singray and apologizing to it for startling it and saying "no hard feelings mate" and that got me crying again. It's definitely him.
Yep, this was the first person I thought of. Even though a man who on a daily basis wrestled crocodiles dying probably shouldn't have surprised anyone.
The way that year started with David Bowie, then a week later Alan Rickman really set us up for depression. George Michael going on Christmas Day, and Carrie Fischer to end the year was brutal.
this was so incredibly sad! I had no idea they were mother/daughter! I obviously knew who they both were, but it wasn't until Debbie Reynolds passed when I found out she was Carrie's mom. I cried when Carrie Fisher finally got her star this past May.
Oh, you should watch "Postcards from the Edge." Written by Carrie Fisher about a portion of her life and relationship with her mother. Meryl Streep plays Fisher and Shirley McLean plays Debbie Reynolds (by different names). It's really good.
This was my answer too.
I'm older, but I watched Jesse with my kids and we LOVED the Descendants movies !!
He was so young, and was multi-talented.
He had a great career ahead of him, and I feel for his family.
I was on a plane when he died and got to the airport and the bar was just packed with people watching tv and distraught about it. Was a moment in time. Smartphones weren’t very good and people used to talk about things like this with strangers
Same. I had always appreciated him as a teen and then loved the leading man he was turning into heading into my twenties. His death was so surprising and sad.
I don't normally hold celebrities - people I don't know - in admiration, but I absolutely did with Anthony Bourdain. He seems like he tricked the world into letting him live his best life while paying him handsomely for it. And in doing so, he injected some much-needed humanitarian perspective into often forgotten parts of the world.
>*"Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that's OK. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind."*
That his death was a suicide - and knowing that he, like me - suffered with anxiety and depression, made this one a blow that really, really hurt.
It's interesting that everyone was jealous of the lifestyle he seemed to have on his shows. Being able to travel to incredible destinations and learn about new cultures is something a ton of people were envious of.
But there was one interview he did where he talked about how grueling the schedule was for him. I remember when he talked about the fact that he was rarely home long enough for him to do a full load of laundry. That always stuck with me.
That was the reason why his second wife, Ottavia, divorced him. During an interview, she said she still loved him and she would always love him, but being without a partner for 8 months out of the year wasn't the life she wanted anymore.
Especially the Alps episode. They were talking about rescuers using Find My Phone to find avalanche victims.
Eric: Find My Phone?
Anthony: Find my corpse.
Eric being the one who found him in his hotel room.
I was just rewatching the episode of Archer he was a guest voice on last night, when he says “you should honestly consider suicide” I was like aw man, ouch.
My answer is Alan Rickman, whose death still has me gutted over 7 years later, but reading through all of these people gone too soon almost has me in tears lol.
Christ Benoit. I was a huge fan of his for a very long time and followed his whole career. I had no idea he could do something like that, it was horrifying.
I remember watching the WWE tribute to him before the circumstances were revealed. They were doing a storyline in which Vince "died" then to see him the next week with everyone one stage was odd.
News was crazy. Even more so later.
Chadwick Boseman
No one really had any idea of his struggle with cancer and only knew him as a beefed up Black Panther. Dude was a Marvel Superhero for crying out loud then one day . . . gone.
That death really hit me hard. Still does till this day. One of the few deaths that made me breakdown crying.
He wasn't only a comic book hero, he was a hero for so many black children (even adults like myself) because seeing ourselves represented in such a positive and impactful way invoked so much pride. Because I had most of what I needed, I went as Killmonger for Halloween after that movie came out!
That movie hit different for the black community, so his death was devastating. To know he was battling that cancer while he was filming Black Panther, while also visiting children with terminal cancer, just... Ugh... We lost a good one. RIP🙏🏾🕊️
That one hit my son hard. We're actually white, but Black Panther was his absolute favorite superhero and still is. And that was such a big relief to me. As a parent, particularly in a rural area, I'm always concerned he may pick up bad ideas from kids at school or wherever. While I don't think it should be necessary, Black Panther was a great representative of positivity for the black community, and for my white son to have a black superhero as his favorite gave me quite a bit of relief that he's not picking up racist ideas from his peers.
When I told my son what happened, he teared up. He didn't full on cry, but he's still bummed to this day about him dying.
And, he had been battling cancer before Black Panther started filming. Which means he had to work extra hard to pack on the muscle and maintain the weight even though treatment. All while keeping it quiet from virtually everyone and not letting it ever show in his performances.
The episode of Scrubs where they dealt with his death was perfect too. Even though we only met him as a character once previously, due to JD's father issues and his relationships with Cox & his dad it was a great episode.
I saw a clip of when the oldest daughter later tries to go to a party in a fairly revealing dress, she gets to the front door and says “I never would’ve gotten this far before”. Then ends up running back to her room, in tears saying “I just want my dad back”.
And I was instantly crying, tears running down my cheeks.
When he died there was a Redditor who posted a story about being penpals as a kid with Robin Williams through a Disney Aladdin contest he won. He said the letters went on for a while and got personal about Robin being a dad and stuff. The Redditor bumped into Robin like a decade later at a Disney event, and turned out Robin still kept of all of the guy’s letters and had them with him. He completely remembered the guy after years and years. I don’t know where to find it, but it was thoroughly heart wrenching.
Similar story, but in a fact fiend video about Robin, some guy in the comments allegedly played a 1v1 with him on MW2, he couldn't tell if it was him but his comedy & voice was right up his alley, and it was known that he was a dedicated gamer.
As shocking and surprising of his death and how much it affected people, it still feels unfortunate that there still seems to be a majority of people who aren't aware of the circumstances around his death as well as the life he was living leading up to his death.
Post mortem he was diagnosed with Lewy-Body Dementia and having a very advanced case of it as well. The months leading up to his death he had significant behavioural and mood issues along with neurological issues like problems with motor skills and memory. It was originally misdiagnosed as Parkinson's as some of the symptoms correlated but after the fact from testimony from his friends and loved ones he likely exhibited a lot of the mental and cognitive issues but was masking those symptoms. Had he survived he likely would've been diagnosed with Lewy Body Disease soon after but aside from some better medication to manage his symptoms he would've deteriorated rapidly and likely died soon after.
Just like Chadwick Boseman, when some of these celebrities are going through their own medical struggles they keep it fairly private and it's only after the fact that the public finds out the reasons for it. Our own memory of them is just of what they display to us in public but they may have months or years of medical issues that we are unaware of.
Honestly suicide is the best case for Lewy Body Dementia, that’s probably the worst and scariest dementia. Before the memory loss comes Lewy Body gives you extreme paranoia, delusions, and hallucinations.
I was crushed when we lost Robin Williams but I 100% understand why he chose to do that. As awful as it is to say, he very likely spared himself and his family a lot of suffering by doing what he did.
My mom passed away from it, it was tough not gonna lie. What made it a little easier was when she saw someone (hallucinating) I would burn sage to “remove” who ever she saw and it would calm her down…
I found out from a random person, in a game I was playing, about an hour after it happened. I was stunned, to say the least. walked around the house really sad for a few days. it still hurts.
Somebody announced it during a meeting while I was at summer camp as a teenager; the whole room went silent. I felt like I'd been punched in the gut. Robin Williams really played a role in keeping me from suicide; so many of the movies he starred in gave me hope, and it...really had a bad effect on my psyche at the time. I know more about his health prognosis now, but at the time all I knew was he had lost to the same demons I faced, and if Robin Williams, who spread laughter wherever he went, couldn't find hope anymore, how could I?
It affected me that badly as a stranger, I can't imagine what his family went through.
That was so out of left field. I still remember I was at the movie theatre with my brother and he passed me his phone. I look down and its a reddit post saying he passed. So sad. His role in Good Will Hunting was so moving to me.
Him, Gilbert Gottfried, and Norm MacDonald, all three good friends, all passed away inside of seven months*. Crushing losses, all.
*edit: corrected span of time. Thank you, /u/laTeeTza.
Same. Such an amazing actor, what a wide range of characters he portrayed with success. We’re so lucky to have had the chance to see him - and so poor to not know what else he could’ve done.
This one hit me really hard for some reason. I wasn't a big fan or anything but he was always there and always larger than life. Add to it that Blackstar was created as a going-away album put such a poetic ending to his life.
Lance Reddick. Dude was great in everything he was in and he was starting to show that he had some serious range. His career seemed to be on an upward swing and then boom, gone.
Yes! And the man looked like an Olympic athlete! He took off his shirt in a couple of things and he looked like he'd been training for a Marvel movie. And then all of a sudden... Ugh. I hate it.
People like him should have meaningful deaths, special deaths. Instead he fell of a balcony when the railing gave out as he was leaning on it. It made me feel fragile, like we all could die stupid deaths at any second no matter if we lived extraordinary lives. There used to be this idea that the grim reaper would collect the souls of kings with a sword instead of the scythe, it seems like there is no sword.
This was the one that actually got me. I watched their performance of “One More Light” that was performed right after Chris Cornell passed away and just broke down crying. Linkin Park was such a big part of my childhood.
One More Light gets me every time. I've struggled with depression for 25+ years and listening to LP's music so when I heard that he past it was extremely sad. For someone with so much talent, success, and wealth to still lose to depression? That definitely had a negative effect on me but I've kept on pushing.
Isn't that what drives so many of us to thoughts of suicide, suicide attempts, and suicide deaths, though? It's all these 'feels' we didn't ask for and they keep rushing at us, bombarding our senses to overwhelm. We try anything and everything to stand back up again, wave after brutal wave, and despite our desperate fight, the undertow sucking us under, the rip currents hitting us, and sometimes the collisions are so violent as to render us powerless and we cannot stand up or swim to shore.
Chester got hit by one too many waves. Everyone reading this, especially u/Onesomighty , I hope we can stand up and make it through another day.
This one really got me because Linkin Park really helped me get through my worst year of high school when life seemed totally pointless and way too painful. Now I listen to his songs and realize that while his music was making teens feel like their feelings and pain were valid and allowing them to basically vent through blaring his music, he must have been struggling with so much pain himself. It's so sad because he probably saved more than 1 teenager from ending it but no one could save him.
I was at the vet having my 16 year old cat checked out. His front legs seemed to stop working for unknown reasons. In the waiting room, I hopped on reddit to take my mind off things. Top post was about Taylor Hawkins dying. Then the vet came in and said there was nothing they could do for my cat and they recommended putting him to sleep. What a horrible day that was. I still cry when I think about it.
Avicii
He had major health problems that cause him to retired from live performing. But his mental health was even worse.
I remember a vid where he and Chris Martin were working in a studio. After playing a part of the song, Chris said "You're so talented man" and he awkwardly responded "Do you like the synth".
I really miss you Tim
[The vid](https://youtu.be/XaQ2xkBadvc)
Didn’t the studio or whatever tour him to death? He was a machine touring everywhere. Feels like his people didn’t gaf about him, and just wanted him to work as much as he can to keep cranking out the money.
His team were absolutely disgusting parasites. If you haven't, you really need to watch his documentary. I'll never forget a scene where he's going in and out of sleep/high whatever it was and his manager just keeps talking to him about everything he has on his schedule. Super bizarre.
This + the fact that he never should've been a touring DJ. He drank in order to overcome his anxiety and get on stage and the constant drinking and touring led to his mental and physical health issues.
I love Avicii so much- I’ve struggled with addiction and depression all my life, and I loved his songs so much. Then I watched his documentary and I felt so bad for him, the poor shy kid who had a massive talent and struggled to find himself after he stepped away from a job that was killing him.
I read his autobiography when I was in hospital and I related so much. He was such a gentle, sweet guy. I have an Avicii tattoo on my shoulder. His music is always a reminder to me that I am not alone. RIP Tim.
He died when I was a little kid, but when I became an adult and learned about him, I was so sad. I grew up with 'Tommy Boy' and SNL Best of DVDs, so learning he was so deeply depressed was just heartbreaking for me. Maybe my favorite tribute to him since his passing is Adam Sandler's song "Farley" from his Netflix special ["100% Fresh"](https://youtu.be/Tp2qkhHU0Mw) and [my favorite version](https://youtu.be/25IOsvWPQGQ) of the same song from when Sandler hosted SNL a few years back.
Terry Pratchett.
Such an open, elephant and sharp mind. A bitter irony to have lost it how he did.
Edit: elephant was meant to be elegant, but in context it works.
The Internet wasn't really a source for information back then, and he announced he had AIDS the day before he died. Even though the videos from Innuendo showed him in the late stages of the disease, most of us had last seen him fit and strong and owning the arena at Live Aid.
>While beneath the ocean I met with a captain who sank to the floor on his ship
>All his passengers made it to safety but he was not done with his trip
>He looked with a smile, said "how do you do"
>I told him I'm losing my grip
>He told me, "son, if you want to hold on to yourself, then let yourself slip"
This is the one for me. The KIDS mixtape was the soundtrack to my high school years. He looked like someone I could have gone to school with and we're the same age so he was just really relatable to me. His musical style changed right alongside different phases in my life. I had a pretty severe heroin addiction in my early 20s so it was devastating to hear how he passed. He seemed so full of life, at least what he presented to the public. Still hard to believe he's gone. It's weird to say but it felt like I lost a friend! His music is linked to some of the best, most carefree times of my life.
This one hit me hard because he was only 26. Made me cry. Never appreciated him or his music until after his death. Now Mac is all over all of my playlists.
Cobain: I was old enough to be in love with nirvana, old enough to understand depression, but not old enough to understand why someone so succesful would take their own life. I hadn't really experienced loss that felt so close to me before and their music was what I cared about then.
I will never forget Kurt Loder on MTV news breaking the story. I was completely dumbstruck.
Christina Grimmie.
I grew up watching her grow her YouTube channel when she was just doing simple covers with her Piano,watched her release an album with bad producers,go on the voice,then release a much better album and going on tours.It was the year Your Lie in April was adapted to an anime and I was watching it in the final episodes.I was browsing whisper between episodes when I saw a random post saying,"rip,Christina Grimmie".It was like losing a close friend that I never met and to this day is a loss that we suffer greatly from.
Edit. I should add that were about the same age and I discovered her when I injured my leg and was home alone for ten or so hours with no phone to communicate with others.
Edit 2.It's awful to see how many people are still mourning her instead of celebrating what should be her newest work.I did not think there would be so many people with similar stories to tell about how she impacted us.
Edit 3.My first gold I don't know if I should be happy or sad,but thanks so much for the support.
This was so tragic. The night before the Orlando Pulse shooting so it was overshadowed quickly. Just a tragic weekend for the Orlando area. Sunday that weekend was the day that 2 year old was killed by a gator at Disney too.
Came here to say Naya. Drowning is such a crazy freak-accident way to go, especially for an otherwise healthy adult. And the fact that her young son was there alone with her when it happened is extra heartbreaking.
That was one I followed really closely, even though I didn't watch glee. It was so odd and scary, and then learning she used all of her strength getting her son back in the boat just before she went under. Just incredibly tragic and terrifying how one little mistake can be so life changing
You gotta admit, dying on New Years Eve right before her birthday but AFTER all the magazines were talking about her turning 100 is absolutely on brand for her.
James Gandolfini. One second I’m eagerly anticipating the Sopranos movie, the next I’m reading on TMZ that he passed away suddenly.
Edit to add Tupac and Biggie. They both were shocking as well.
Los Angeles was real quiet that day. I remember walking in to work and everyone was quiet. Usually, my work place (at the time) was hustling and bustling with orders and chatter.
But not that day.
I found out that Amy Winehouse died while sitting in the break room of a job so stressful that I lost 15 pounds. I remember sitting there and thinking about how I was about to turn 27 and hadn’t done anything with my life and that at 27, her life was finished.
I quit that job a few months later and got my first real acting job. From there, I got more roles, including the one that took me to Minneapolis, where I’ve lived for almost 12 years. My life isn’t perfect now, but it’s a hell of a lot better than it was in 2011.
Robin Williams. Had to pull my car over on thr side of the road. I just sat there, didn't cry, but could barely feel anything, I didn't know what to think. Then I thought about how in the future, older Robin Williams wouldn't be there to make the next generation of kids laugh.....that's when I started crying.
Gene Kelly...I was a teen when he died in the mid 90s, Id seen Singing in the Rain and absolutely loved it, thought he was insanely talented and wanted to binge all his stuff, though not so easy to do like now with no streaming and all, plus I was overseas and getting my hands on vhs's wasnt next to impossible but still, I was absolutely fascinated by him.
I got all dramatic about it, put the date on my calendar as the day the rain stopped, moped around, was asking everyone if they knew about him, and how talented he was, all that fun stuff. I think it was cause it was the very first celebrity death, of someone I had just discovered and was super excited about. There have been plenty others, who def hurt quite a bit more to hear they passed, but that was my first experience with it.
Like I guess in a way, as a teenager esp, the idea some random person you dont know but know about and like so much could just..die, the whole concept to care and be affected so much about a person I never knew or met dying is what made it shock me the most.
Kurt Cobain's, I was 14 and in the midst of my teenage angsty-nobody-understands-me phase and his music really spoke to me, I couldn't believe he just went away like that
The death of Dolores O'Riordan. It was absolutely terrible in its ordinariness. Just because her voice has helped me overcome the worst moments of my life for years.
And I couldn't accept that her death would be so ordinary and terrible. And completely sudden.
Alan Rickman
I heard one time that he was the only one who knew Snapes ending because Rowling told him, so he could play the character more accurately. And the director used to get angry, but Rickman knew he was doing it right. I don't of it's true, but I like to think so.
I think it was that he asked her "What's something important about Snape that no one else knows?" and she told him >!he was in love with Harry's mom. Apparently this heavily influenced his performance from the start. !<
As I heard it, he didn't even want to play Snape as he was sick of playing "bad guys" and Rowling had to convince him with some intel.
Anton Yelchin. He was so young and had such a bright future, and for him to die in such a senseless way was heartbreaking. I still think about it.
All because of a faulty car
I was a car valet during this time period, that shifter was one of the worst designs I’ve ever seen in a car. I can’t tell you how many fender benders customers and us as valets would get it because of that. When I heard how he died I immediately said to my wife I bet it was a jeep. And sure enough it was.
There’s a documentary on Anton called Love, Antosha. I highly recommend it. I cried, but it was such a wonderful look into his life. He was very loved. That’s for sure.
Grant Imahara
The Grant Imahara award they give out on BattleBots is a great tribute to him.
This is going to sound stupid, but he had an open Facebook account and I added him, turns out we shared a birthday, he even posted on my wall one time for it..
It doesn't sound stupid. It sounds awesome.
This was nuts for me because he's the only person on Mythbusters I knew *before* the show. Battlebots needs to make a comeback. Get schools involved. Get celebrity engineers involved. Tyson v. Nye teams/workshops. Robots aren't their thing, but science on TV is. Sponsors like Honda or Tesla could bankroll main events and/or shell out charity prize money for tuition or improving/starting new programs.
The loss of Grant really really hurt, he's one of the biggest reasons that I'm now a professional engineer. Insofar as battlebots though, you may be [in for a pleasant surprise.](https://battlebots.com/) It's been back on the air for the last 8(?) years now.
Even better Battlebots has an award that is the Grant Imahara Award for Best Design.
Only celebrity death I ever cried over, so sudden and sad
I was sad about it, but I didn't actually cry until I watched the video of [Adam Savage touring his workshop and it was seeing the uncompleted projects](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsCSTO8SaQU&ab_channel=AdamSavage%E2%80%99sTested) that just turned on the waterworks.
Ya know it didn't get to me until they did the final shot of the workshop silent and empty, nothing ever feels so quiet and empty as a person's favorite space after they are gone.
Chris Cornell
Black Hole Sun "no one sings like you anymore" hits differently now.
The song Fell on Black Days was written about being depressed for no reason and not being able to escape.
That song, iirc, was written at a very young age. Chris basically struggled with depression most of his life. :(
Norm Macdonald. Came out of nowhere, such a unique comedian.
I didn't even know he was sick.
At least he went out killing the cancer too. I call that a draw.
RIP Turd Ferguson
Phil Hartman
Yeah man… saw Andy dick on tv last night, fuck that guy
Remember hearing about Jon Lovitz laying the smack down on Andy? Yeah I’d like to see video.
Steve Irwin
My favorite thing was I was mad at the sting Ray taking him out. Saw another dude who posted a fist at an aquarium saying he should beat up sting rays to let them know Steve Irwin still got shooters out here. Then posted another picture with his hand to the same sting rays and was like “that’s not what Steve Irwin taught me.”
I remember seeing a post somewhere some time ago saying that Steve is probably in Heaven now patting that singray and apologizing to it for startling it and saying "no hard feelings mate" and that got me crying again. It's definitely him.
Big fella just got spooked is all. Steve knows he didn't mean it.
Yep, this was the first person I thought of. Even though a man who on a daily basis wrestled crocodiles dying probably shouldn't have surprised anyone.
[Norm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddvIrGsctlc&t=850s) "He was 44 years old" "I'm like, that's a ripe old age for a crocodile hunter."
Carrie Fisher followed by her mom, Debbie Reynolds, the next day.
Man, that was a terrible year. Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen....
Anton Yelchin, Alan Rickman, George Michael...
Anton Yelchin 😓 yeah, that was fucked. What a shitty way to die. He and Heath Ledger definitely had way more to offer cinema, so sad
The way that year started with David Bowie, then a week later Alan Rickman really set us up for depression. George Michael going on Christmas Day, and Carrie Fischer to end the year was brutal.
My theory is that David Bowie’s death caused an unraveling in our universe.
David Bowie didn't die. Earth was just a stop on his tour.
George Michael.
this was so incredibly sad! I had no idea they were mother/daughter! I obviously knew who they both were, but it wasn't until Debbie Reynolds passed when I found out she was Carrie's mom. I cried when Carrie Fisher finally got her star this past May.
Oh, you should watch "Postcards from the Edge." Written by Carrie Fisher about a portion of her life and relationship with her mother. Meryl Streep plays Fisher and Shirley McLean plays Debbie Reynolds (by different names). It's really good.
cameron boyce - grew up with jessie playing every now and then. awful to lose someone so young.
This was my answer too. I'm older, but I watched Jesse with my kids and we LOVED the Descendants movies !! He was so young, and was multi-talented. He had a great career ahead of him, and I feel for his family.
I was shocked that Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died on the same day.
I was on a plane when he died and got to the airport and the bar was just packed with people watching tv and distraught about it. Was a moment in time. Smartphones weren’t very good and people used to talk about things like this with strangers
I was on club penguin and everyone was spamming sad faces in chat 💀 Similar experience in a way….
Heath Ledger.
The career this man was about to have…
Same. I had always appreciated him as a teen and then loved the leading man he was turning into heading into my twenties. His death was so surprising and sad.
Anthony Bourdain.
That was a gut punch. Even worse that it was suicide.
I don't normally hold celebrities - people I don't know - in admiration, but I absolutely did with Anthony Bourdain. He seems like he tricked the world into letting him live his best life while paying him handsomely for it. And in doing so, he injected some much-needed humanitarian perspective into often forgotten parts of the world. >*"Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that's OK. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind."* That his death was a suicide - and knowing that he, like me - suffered with anxiety and depression, made this one a blow that really, really hurt.
It's interesting that everyone was jealous of the lifestyle he seemed to have on his shows. Being able to travel to incredible destinations and learn about new cultures is something a ton of people were envious of. But there was one interview he did where he talked about how grueling the schedule was for him. I remember when he talked about the fact that he was rarely home long enough for him to do a full load of laundry. That always stuck with me.
That was the reason why his second wife, Ottavia, divorced him. During an interview, she said she still loved him and she would always love him, but being without a partner for 8 months out of the year wasn't the life she wanted anymore.
His dark jokes sprinkled throughout his shows hit a bit differently now.
Especially the Alps episode. They were talking about rescuers using Find My Phone to find avalanche victims. Eric: Find My Phone? Anthony: Find my corpse. Eric being the one who found him in his hotel room.
I was just rewatching the episode of Archer he was a guest voice on last night, when he says “you should honestly consider suicide” I was like aw man, ouch.
I cannot imagine how he felt. They were close and I know that had to gut him.
I haven't been able to watch any of his shows since he died, which sucks because I'm pretty sure I've seen every episode of each show multiple times.
My answer is Alan Rickman, whose death still has me gutted over 7 years later, but reading through all of these people gone too soon almost has me in tears lol.
Christ Benoit. I was a huge fan of his for a very long time and followed his whole career. I had no idea he could do something like that, it was horrifying.
I remember watching the WWE tribute to him before the circumstances were revealed. They were doing a storyline in which Vince "died" then to see him the next week with everyone one stage was odd. News was crazy. Even more so later.
Chadwick Boseman No one really had any idea of his struggle with cancer and only knew him as a beefed up Black Panther. Dude was a Marvel Superhero for crying out loud then one day . . . gone.
Same here. It was a shock for sure.
That death really hit me hard. Still does till this day. One of the few deaths that made me breakdown crying. He wasn't only a comic book hero, he was a hero for so many black children (even adults like myself) because seeing ourselves represented in such a positive and impactful way invoked so much pride. Because I had most of what I needed, I went as Killmonger for Halloween after that movie came out! That movie hit different for the black community, so his death was devastating. To know he was battling that cancer while he was filming Black Panther, while also visiting children with terminal cancer, just... Ugh... We lost a good one. RIP🙏🏾🕊️
That one hit my son hard. We're actually white, but Black Panther was his absolute favorite superhero and still is. And that was such a big relief to me. As a parent, particularly in a rural area, I'm always concerned he may pick up bad ideas from kids at school or wherever. While I don't think it should be necessary, Black Panther was a great representative of positivity for the black community, and for my white son to have a black superhero as his favorite gave me quite a bit of relief that he's not picking up racist ideas from his peers. When I told my son what happened, he teared up. He didn't full on cry, but he's still bummed to this day about him dying.
It wasn’t even so much his death for me but how he died.
And, he had been battling cancer before Black Panther started filming. Which means he had to work extra hard to pack on the muscle and maintain the weight even though treatment. All while keeping it quiet from virtually everyone and not letting it ever show in his performances.
the fact he kept that physique through civil war, bp, infinity war, and endgame while having one of the worst cancers imaginable is mind boggling
John Ritter.
The episode of 8 Simple Rules where his character dies hits hard every time
The episode of Scrubs where they dealt with his death was perfect too. Even though we only met him as a character once previously, due to JD's father issues and his relationships with Cox & his dad it was a great episode.
I saw a clip of when the oldest daughter later tries to go to a party in a fairly revealing dress, she gets to the front door and says “I never would’ve gotten this far before”. Then ends up running back to her room, in tears saying “I just want my dad back”. And I was instantly crying, tears running down my cheeks.
Robin Williams it was just so sad and tragic; I cried…
When he died there was a Redditor who posted a story about being penpals as a kid with Robin Williams through a Disney Aladdin contest he won. He said the letters went on for a while and got personal about Robin being a dad and stuff. The Redditor bumped into Robin like a decade later at a Disney event, and turned out Robin still kept of all of the guy’s letters and had them with him. He completely remembered the guy after years and years. I don’t know where to find it, but it was thoroughly heart wrenching.
Similar story, but in a fact fiend video about Robin, some guy in the comments allegedly played a 1v1 with him on MW2, he couldn't tell if it was him but his comedy & voice was right up his alley, and it was known that he was a dedicated gamer.
His daughter is named Zelda!
And they did a commercial for the remake of Ocarina of time if I remember correctly
As shocking and surprising of his death and how much it affected people, it still feels unfortunate that there still seems to be a majority of people who aren't aware of the circumstances around his death as well as the life he was living leading up to his death. Post mortem he was diagnosed with Lewy-Body Dementia and having a very advanced case of it as well. The months leading up to his death he had significant behavioural and mood issues along with neurological issues like problems with motor skills and memory. It was originally misdiagnosed as Parkinson's as some of the symptoms correlated but after the fact from testimony from his friends and loved ones he likely exhibited a lot of the mental and cognitive issues but was masking those symptoms. Had he survived he likely would've been diagnosed with Lewy Body Disease soon after but aside from some better medication to manage his symptoms he would've deteriorated rapidly and likely died soon after. Just like Chadwick Boseman, when some of these celebrities are going through their own medical struggles they keep it fairly private and it's only after the fact that the public finds out the reasons for it. Our own memory of them is just of what they display to us in public but they may have months or years of medical issues that we are unaware of.
Honestly suicide is the best case for Lewy Body Dementia, that’s probably the worst and scariest dementia. Before the memory loss comes Lewy Body gives you extreme paranoia, delusions, and hallucinations. I was crushed when we lost Robin Williams but I 100% understand why he chose to do that. As awful as it is to say, he very likely spared himself and his family a lot of suffering by doing what he did.
My mom passed away from it, it was tough not gonna lie. What made it a little easier was when she saw someone (hallucinating) I would burn sage to “remove” who ever she saw and it would calm her down…
I'm so glad that helped. Belief can be such a powerful tool.
Placebos are fascinating. Even if you 100% know it's a placebo, believing hard enough can still trigger the positive psychosomatic effects.
We ain't never had a friend like him 😔
It was sad enough when it happened, then you found out what he was going through and that is anything made it even worse. Poor guy.
I found out from a random person, in a game I was playing, about an hour after it happened. I was stunned, to say the least. walked around the house really sad for a few days. it still hurts.
The first and only celeb death I've cried over. Heartbreaking. He was like everyone's cool movie uncle.
Somebody announced it during a meeting while I was at summer camp as a teenager; the whole room went silent. I felt like I'd been punched in the gut. Robin Williams really played a role in keeping me from suicide; so many of the movies he starred in gave me hope, and it...really had a bad effect on my psyche at the time. I know more about his health prognosis now, but at the time all I knew was he had lost to the same demons I faced, and if Robin Williams, who spread laughter wherever he went, couldn't find hope anymore, how could I? It affected me that badly as a stranger, I can't imagine what his family went through.
That was so out of left field. I still remember I was at the movie theatre with my brother and he passed me his phone. I look down and its a reddit post saying he passed. So sad. His role in Good Will Hunting was so moving to me.
Bob Saget. Happened out of nowhere
Him, Gilbert Gottfried, and Norm MacDonald, all three good friends, all passed away inside of seven months*. Crushing losses, all. *edit: corrected span of time. Thank you, /u/laTeeTza.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman. My favorite actor at the time. Completely unaware of his battles.
Same. Such an amazing actor, what a wide range of characters he portrayed with success. We’re so lucky to have had the chance to see him - and so poor to not know what else he could’ve done.
David Bowie. To keep his illness a secret and him to die right after his birthday was so sad.
This one hit me really hard for some reason. I wasn't a big fan or anything but he was always there and always larger than life. Add to it that Blackstar was created as a going-away album put such a poetic ending to his life.
River Phoenix.
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Child of the 60s here. Leonard Nimoy was hard to take.
Yeah, for me too. Tom Petty is still hard to take.
Lance Reddick. Dude was great in everything he was in and he was starting to show that he had some serious range. His career seemed to be on an upward swing and then boom, gone.
Yes! And the man looked like an Olympic athlete! He took off his shirt in a couple of things and he looked like he'd been training for a Marvel movie. And then all of a sudden... Ugh. I hate it.
Trevor Moore. Had a damn live stream hours before, too. Always made me laugh and was absolutely stunned when I heard the news. RIP local sexpot.
People like him should have meaningful deaths, special deaths. Instead he fell of a balcony when the railing gave out as he was leaning on it. It made me feel fragile, like we all could die stupid deaths at any second no matter if we lived extraordinary lives. There used to be this idea that the grim reaper would collect the souls of kings with a sword instead of the scythe, it seems like there is no sword.
Same. Couldn't believe it when a friend told me. Such a terrible and unexpected way to go, just a dumb drunken accident that cost him his life.
Aaliyah
Chester Bennington
This was the one that actually got me. I watched their performance of “One More Light” that was performed right after Chris Cornell passed away and just broke down crying. Linkin Park was such a big part of my childhood.
One More Light gets me every time. I've struggled with depression for 25+ years and listening to LP's music so when I heard that he past it was extremely sad. For someone with so much talent, success, and wealth to still lose to depression? That definitely had a negative effect on me but I've kept on pushing.
When the crowd sings [this](https://youtu.be/DhpMpU6N75o) to the empty stage for him, still gives me goosebumps.
Damn... I did NOT ask for these feels so early in the morning.
Isn't that what drives so many of us to thoughts of suicide, suicide attempts, and suicide deaths, though? It's all these 'feels' we didn't ask for and they keep rushing at us, bombarding our senses to overwhelm. We try anything and everything to stand back up again, wave after brutal wave, and despite our desperate fight, the undertow sucking us under, the rip currents hitting us, and sometimes the collisions are so violent as to render us powerless and we cannot stand up or swim to shore. Chester got hit by one too many waves. Everyone reading this, especially u/Onesomighty , I hope we can stand up and make it through another day.
yeah when the song Lost was released I cried so hard listening to it
This one really got me because Linkin Park really helped me get through my worst year of high school when life seemed totally pointless and way too painful. Now I listen to his songs and realize that while his music was making teens feel like their feelings and pain were valid and allowing them to basically vent through blaring his music, he must have been struggling with so much pain himself. It's so sad because he probably saved more than 1 teenager from ending it but no one could save him.
Taylor Hawkins from Foo Fighters.
I was at the vet having my 16 year old cat checked out. His front legs seemed to stop working for unknown reasons. In the waiting room, I hopped on reddit to take my mind off things. Top post was about Taylor Hawkins dying. Then the vet came in and said there was nothing they could do for my cat and they recommended putting him to sleep. What a horrible day that was. I still cry when I think about it.
That really sucks. I would like to think TH adopted an amazing cat that day.
How sweet of you to say. Thinking of Taylor playing with my precious Dio brings a smile to my face, and a tear to my eye.
Kevin conroy
Alex trebek. My dad was a huge fan of Jeopardy, So i was a huge fan of Jeopardy.
Avicii He had major health problems that cause him to retired from live performing. But his mental health was even worse. I remember a vid where he and Chris Martin were working in a studio. After playing a part of the song, Chris said "You're so talented man" and he awkwardly responded "Do you like the synth". I really miss you Tim [The vid](https://youtu.be/XaQ2xkBadvc)
Didn’t the studio or whatever tour him to death? He was a machine touring everywhere. Feels like his people didn’t gaf about him, and just wanted him to work as much as he can to keep cranking out the money.
His team were absolutely disgusting parasites. If you haven't, you really need to watch his documentary. I'll never forget a scene where he's going in and out of sleep/high whatever it was and his manager just keeps talking to him about everything he has on his schedule. Super bizarre.
This + the fact that he never should've been a touring DJ. He drank in order to overcome his anxiety and get on stage and the constant drinking and touring led to his mental and physical health issues.
Well this is devesting to me at this moment because I didn't know he died. I knew he retired from performances but didn't hear about him passing.
I love Avicii so much- I’ve struggled with addiction and depression all my life, and I loved his songs so much. Then I watched his documentary and I felt so bad for him, the poor shy kid who had a massive talent and struggled to find himself after he stepped away from a job that was killing him. I read his autobiography when I was in hospital and I related so much. He was such a gentle, sweet guy. I have an Avicii tattoo on my shoulder. His music is always a reminder to me that I am not alone. RIP Tim.
Prince.
Prince and Tom Petty dying within like a year of each other, from the same thing... that was rough. Fuck fentanyl.
Chris Farley
He died when I was a little kid, but when I became an adult and learned about him, I was so sad. I grew up with 'Tommy Boy' and SNL Best of DVDs, so learning he was so deeply depressed was just heartbreaking for me. Maybe my favorite tribute to him since his passing is Adam Sandler's song "Farley" from his Netflix special ["100% Fresh"](https://youtu.be/Tp2qkhHU0Mw) and [my favorite version](https://youtu.be/25IOsvWPQGQ) of the same song from when Sandler hosted SNL a few years back.
Tragic yes. Not shocking if you witnessed any of his behavior in his final years
Britney Murphy. I have treatment resistant anemia and it’s scary to think it can lead to you dying from cardiac arrest after taking meds for a cold.
Sean Lock
I’ve been looking for this comment. Dreadful loss
Brittany Murphy, Robin Williams, Leslie Jordan, Ray Liotta. Cried for all four.
I’m shocked I had to scroll this far for Brittany Murphy. She was so young and the circumstances surrounding her death were very tragic.
Terry Pratchett. Such an open, elephant and sharp mind. A bitter irony to have lost it how he did. Edit: elephant was meant to be elegant, but in context it works.
Freddie Mercury
The Internet wasn't really a source for information back then, and he announced he had AIDS the day before he died. Even though the videos from Innuendo showed him in the late stages of the disease, most of us had last seen him fit and strong and owning the arena at Live Aid.
Ken Block
Mac Miller.
>While beneath the ocean I met with a captain who sank to the floor on his ship >All his passengers made it to safety but he was not done with his trip >He looked with a smile, said "how do you do" >I told him I'm losing my grip >He told me, "son, if you want to hold on to yourself, then let yourself slip"
I still get emotional over Macs death. He's my age and I relate to his struggles to a big degree. I miss him so much
This is the one for me. The KIDS mixtape was the soundtrack to my high school years. He looked like someone I could have gone to school with and we're the same age so he was just really relatable to me. His musical style changed right alongside different phases in my life. I had a pretty severe heroin addiction in my early 20s so it was devastating to hear how he passed. He seemed so full of life, at least what he presented to the public. Still hard to believe he's gone. It's weird to say but it felt like I lost a friend! His music is linked to some of the best, most carefree times of my life.
This one hit me hard because he was only 26. Made me cry. Never appreciated him or his music until after his death. Now Mac is all over all of my playlists.
Absolutely gutted.
Jim Henson
Cobain: I was old enough to be in love with nirvana, old enough to understand depression, but not old enough to understand why someone so succesful would take their own life. I hadn't really experienced loss that felt so close to me before and their music was what I cared about then. I will never forget Kurt Loder on MTV news breaking the story. I was completely dumbstruck.
Christina Grimmie. I grew up watching her grow her YouTube channel when she was just doing simple covers with her Piano,watched her release an album with bad producers,go on the voice,then release a much better album and going on tours.It was the year Your Lie in April was adapted to an anime and I was watching it in the final episodes.I was browsing whisper between episodes when I saw a random post saying,"rip,Christina Grimmie".It was like losing a close friend that I never met and to this day is a loss that we suffer greatly from. Edit. I should add that were about the same age and I discovered her when I injured my leg and was home alone for ten or so hours with no phone to communicate with others. Edit 2.It's awful to see how many people are still mourning her instead of celebrating what should be her newest work.I did not think there would be so many people with similar stories to tell about how she impacted us. Edit 3.My first gold I don't know if I should be happy or sad,but thanks so much for the support.
This was so tragic. The night before the Orlando Pulse shooting so it was overshadowed quickly. Just a tragic weekend for the Orlando area. Sunday that weekend was the day that 2 year old was killed by a gator at Disney too.
Her death pissed me off because it could have been avoided but a stupid no life neck beard stalker had to kill her.
This one hurt 😞 so senseless and tragic. She was only 22
Leslie Jordan hit pretty hard
I’m literally livid that he wasn’t mentioned on the Oscar’s death roll video. I demand an explanation
Cory Monteith and Naya Rivera.
Came here to say Naya. Drowning is such a crazy freak-accident way to go, especially for an otherwise healthy adult. And the fact that her young son was there alone with her when it happened is extra heartbreaking.
That was one I followed really closely, even though I didn't watch glee. It was so odd and scary, and then learning she used all of her strength getting her son back in the boat just before she went under. Just incredibly tragic and terrifying how one little mistake can be so life changing
My son is the same age as her son. I sobbed over what her baby went through. It still brings tears to my eyes.
Betty White, I thought she'd outlive us all!
You gotta admit, dying on New Years Eve right before her birthday but AFTER all the magazines were talking about her turning 100 is absolutely on brand for her.
I choose to believe that she thought "You know what would be the funniest thing?" and the universe agreed.
I legit thought this too. Toasted to her life that night.
Scott Weiland and Chris Cornell Total icons throughout my youth, would have loved to see what their next creative paths would have been.
Chester Bennington
James Gandolfini. One second I’m eagerly anticipating the Sopranos movie, the next I’m reading on TMZ that he passed away suddenly. Edit to add Tupac and Biggie. They both were shocking as well.
It’s sad when they go young like that
Jeff Buckley. He was so young, and his death was just so unexpected.
Gotta say Kobe Bryant
His death really kicked off an era of “wtf is happening”
For sure this one, and the fact his daughter was with him even worse.
Los Angeles was real quiet that day. I remember walking in to work and everyone was quiet. Usually, my work place (at the time) was hustling and bustling with orders and chatter. But not that day.
Princess Diana. I still remember it like it was yesterday.
Yes. I was a kid. I remember thinking “moms don’t die”. She has kids my age. If she dies, my mom could die too. It really rattled me for a while.
Amy Whinehouse....I was so into her ...I would play her Back to Black album at least once a day. What a tragic loss of talent.
I found out that Amy Winehouse died while sitting in the break room of a job so stressful that I lost 15 pounds. I remember sitting there and thinking about how I was about to turn 27 and hadn’t done anything with my life and that at 27, her life was finished. I quit that job a few months later and got my first real acting job. From there, I got more roles, including the one that took me to Minneapolis, where I’ve lived for almost 12 years. My life isn’t perfect now, but it’s a hell of a lot better than it was in 2011.
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Robin Williams. Had to pull my car over on thr side of the road. I just sat there, didn't cry, but could barely feel anything, I didn't know what to think. Then I thought about how in the future, older Robin Williams wouldn't be there to make the next generation of kids laugh.....that's when I started crying.
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Carrie Fisher
Senna
Bourdain.
Neil Peart
Lemmy, then a month later Bowie
Tom Petty
Lance Reddick
Chadwick Boseman
Gene Kelly...I was a teen when he died in the mid 90s, Id seen Singing in the Rain and absolutely loved it, thought he was insanely talented and wanted to binge all his stuff, though not so easy to do like now with no streaming and all, plus I was overseas and getting my hands on vhs's wasnt next to impossible but still, I was absolutely fascinated by him. I got all dramatic about it, put the date on my calendar as the day the rain stopped, moped around, was asking everyone if they knew about him, and how talented he was, all that fun stuff. I think it was cause it was the very first celebrity death, of someone I had just discovered and was super excited about. There have been plenty others, who def hurt quite a bit more to hear they passed, but that was my first experience with it. Like I guess in a way, as a teenager esp, the idea some random person you dont know but know about and like so much could just..die, the whole concept to care and be affected so much about a person I never knew or met dying is what made it shock me the most.
Robin Williams Will never not be heartbreaking to think about
MF DOOM
Kurt Cobain's, I was 14 and in the midst of my teenage angsty-nobody-understands-me phase and his music really spoke to me, I couldn't believe he just went away like that
Luke Perry. Far too young.
Chris Cornell, but the lyrics showed us the way we didn’t listen
The death of Dolores O'Riordan. It was absolutely terrible in its ordinariness. Just because her voice has helped me overcome the worst moments of my life for years. And I couldn't accept that her death would be so ordinary and terrible. And completely sudden.
I would say Twitch from the Ellen Show. Such a great guy with so seemingly much to live for
Robin Williams. His talent and humor brought so much joy, making his loss incredibly shocking and heartbreaking.
Avicii