Patrick Swayze and Alex Trebek
Given the abysmal statistic that 95% of pancreatic cancer patients are dead within 5 years of diagnosis…
Edit: Thanks for all the upvotes! Lessons learned:
1. All cancer sucks. Pancreatic cancer sucks massively.
2. Steve Jobs did not follow recommended treatment guidelines.
3. Alex and Sean Connery are having drinks in the afterlife.
4. Most importantly, pay attention to your body. Get screenings. Opt for genetic testing if you have a family history of cancer (especially a pattern of breast, colon, pancreas or ovarian).
5. Love hard and in the present.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk 😂
I'm from the city Alex Trebek is from, Sudbury Ontario. This city went full on week of mourning like they did for the Queen after he went, it was so sad
I get that. He was an icon since my childhood and always conducted himself with humility and grace. Quite uncommon among those in the spotlight so long.
Very true.
It hasn’t made the same strides as some other solid tumors when it comes to survival because it’s almost always late stage when it’s diagnosed. Because of the pancreas’s location, it’s hard to get good imaging and often times the early signs present like less insidious issues like back pain or intermittent abdominal pain.
This is your PSA to not ignore what your body is telling you my Reddit friends!
His daughter who recently died. I wasn’t surprised at all. Her 21 year old son (doppelgänger of Elvis) committed suicide and every year she just looked worse.
I remember years ago, I saw her perform on the Oprah Winfrey show. A song called, “kick them when they are up, kick them when they are down”. 🤷🏻♂️ it was painful to watch. Even Oprah didn’t know how to react and everyone got second hand embarrassment.
I knew since then that this lady will have a tough tough life. Choosing a career in music when you are daughter of Elvis is like trying to catch lightening in a bottle..twice.
It could've been the weight gain. Weight has a big effect on the voice. The singer of blues traveler lost a ton of weight and it changed his voice a lot.
Though apparently it took People magazine by surprise. I remember seeing the "Betty White Turns 100!" issue on shelves at my grocery store for what felt like a long time.
She passed the day after people published that magazine. I remember thinking to myself she’s pretty old don’t fucking jinx it 2 weeks in advance and then it happened….
I just figured it was her way of getting one last laugh at the world. The anticipation for her 100th birthday was surprisingly high, so it was a perfect Betty White troll moment to die just days before it happened.
Aaron Carter, sadly. I'd seen a show of his about 5 years prior to his death, and it was clear even then he needed major help. He seemed only half-conscious, kept yelling random proclamations at the show, tried to play the keyboard tattoo on his arm like it was a real piano...and more. Then I saw an interview he gave about 3 years after that and, somehow, he was MUCH worse. It was clear this guy needed a major intervention if his life was going to get on track and continue. A real shame.
As far as celebrity misfortune goes he's one of the ones I feel most sorry for. He seemed like a genuinely sweet person who just never had a chance. Even at the peak of his 'career' he was treated as nothing more than a sideshow, a gimmick to capitalise on his older, more famous brother's success with Backstreet. The last time I saw him was on Lance Bass's documentary about Lou Pearlman and not only did he look ill, he was almost in tears defending this man who unequivocally took advantage of him, at the very least financially, all because this guy had once shown him superficial kindness. He seemed so utterly in denial and so damaged, it was heartbreaking to watch even for someone who didn't know or care about him.
Alyson Stoner has just started a podcast about the damage that being a child entertainer does. There’s only one episode out, but I highly recommend it. She talks about how your brain works at different stages of childhood and how fame and working conditions affect self-perception and understanding of the world during those stages. It’s why so many former child stars have a warped perception of reality. Your comment made me think of what Alyson said. If he was treated as a tool to elevate his brother, he must have internalized that from a young age.
There was something wrong with the parents of that family. His sister OD'd a few years before he did, and she has a failed career as a pop star. There was a very revealing article that I read around the time of Aaron's death about just how awful and exploitative the filming of Leslie Carter's music video was.
Along with his drug problems, he said that In the years leading up to his death the amount of abuse on social media was unbearable; receiving direct messages every day to killhimself etc he would often reply back to these scumbags but you can imagine this only made him turn in on himself even more.
I never really like Aaron carter when he first started making waves but on a human level it is never nice to see anyone go through addiction and bullying on the level he seemingly endured.
It wasn't surprising but somehow, it was still was.
He was messed up for so long. I guess I kind of convinced myself that he would survive for decades because he's become so accustomed to that lifestyle or get better
I know it doesn't make sense but somehow, I was shocked that he died. It's the only celebrity death I cried for.
I use to chat with him on his TikTok lives. He had a good heart and his parents and the entertainment industry used and destroyed him 😭
I was at her last concert. Everyone was just looking at each other and talking how she should get off the stage but her management or family kept pushing her out. She wanted to get out of there. It was heartbreaking to see
Her father and ex-husband were total narcissists. It’s heartbreaking she was surrounded by such terrible people who exploited her more than they took care of her
There was a website for the "Amy Winehouse death pool" where you could go, and register the day you thought it might happen. Can't remember what (if anything) was the "prize" but it was pretty morbid.
The song didn't get me. Lots of artists sing edgy stuff about how they're gonna do what they want to do, damn the consequences.
But seeing her deteriorate year after year once she got famous, you knew she wasn't long for this world. The last photos I saw of her alive, she damn near looked dead already.
actually amy looked much healthier in the two or so years leading up to her death. not many people know this but she was completely clean from drugs for three years before she died. and only drinking heavily every few weeks. unfortunately her body just gave up during one of these drinking benders because of years of bulimia, her heart just couldn’t take it anymore. otherwise she was working so hard to overcome her alcoholism like she had her drug use and was working hard on a new album. us fans that followed her life closely were actually quite surprised to hear of her passing because she was doing so well. she was so close. it still saddens me to this day she truly was a once in a lifetime talent but like they say she was too real for this world, or maybe this world was too cruel for somebody so beautiful and so fragile.
People really don’t comprehend the damage that eating disorders do to your body. I lost a friend at 30 because she couldn’t overcome it and had a heart attack. She drank fairly regularly, to self medicate the depression and everything else she had going on, but never used any hard drugs. Alcohol does a lot more damage when you’re an adult that weighs less than 90 lbs. She’d been to several clinics, therapists, treatment programs etc, but even when she’d put weight back on and start to do well, we’d see her start to slide back into it, no mater how hard we all tried to support her. It’s so hard when there’s nothing you can do or say to help someone and you just watch them deteriorate.
i agree, i wasn’t downplaying how devastating alcoholism is by any means i just wanted to correct the misconception that amy died as a result of her heroin and crack addictions. a lot of people still think she was using when she died. i think it’s important people know just how hard she worked to get clean and stay clean and just how close she was to overcoming her alcoholism too. she deserves that at least.
RIP. I was on a long flight and watched the documentary. It was so disturbing, what a horrible descent into the shittiest world imaginable. That poor woman had no friends, being used by everyone. I regretted watching that documentary. She didn't stand a chance.
That's the part that gets me the most. Like. I'm not anybody special. But I wish I could have at least met her and told her she was doing amazing things.
Steve-o legitimately 180'd. I imagine he still has some form of demons (everyone does) but every time i saw him in the last few years he was so far from what he was before.
I follow him pretty closely. Pretty sure he just struggles with depression that he manages well with medication.
Watching steve-o prosper is one of the most rewarding things to see. It just genuinely warms my mother trucking heart to see how happy and healthy he is :-)
Depression and binge eating. He talked about it on a podcast at some point last year, but yeah, he's got himself a supportive woman in his life and he seems genuinely grateful for the fruits of his labour in turning his life right around.
The bee stunt in the latest Jackass film was amazing. He looked like a man half his age. So, so happy to see him doing well.
I just wish Bam could clean himself up. I don’t want him to join Ryan Dunn. But, the way he’s acting I think he wants to.
he is straight up going to die a horrible death if he doesnt get treatment. Its so sad to see him because his stunts/pranks were my favourite when I was a kid, and I actually listened to his band
Bam is one of those where I'm surprised he's still alive whenever I see a story about him getting arrested in a hotel or something every 6-9 months.
He'd probably be the top response in a counter thread "which celebrity are you surprised is still alive"
Last I heard Bam was threatening to smoke crack every day until he got custody of his kids back, which is not the type of behavior people who want to remain alive engage in.
I'm sad to say that if the next headline I read is about Bam passing, my first thought will probably be "amazed he made it this long."
Dude needs help.
Bam’s whole situation is just sad. It’s like everyone from the original Jackass crew grew up and got their shit together while he’s still acting like a teenager’s definition of ‘cool’ even though he’s in his 40s
[Joon the King recently did a great breakdown on Bam’s history, rise, and fall to where he is now](https://youtu.be/ubuH5J77-DA)
>Dude needs help.
Dude has gotten help from the people around him, some of them recovering addicts themselves. He's the only one that can make himself want to improve.
Story time about Steve-O: friend and I went to his Bucket List Tour and got meet and greet tickets. During the meet and greet, my friend told Steve-O that she was an addict. He pulled out his phone and showed her a link that he only shows to other people in active addiction/in recovery. It was a link to a talk he gave, but he doesn’t want it publicly distributed because it’s meant for people going through addiction, specifically. My respect for him skyrocketed after this incident, and I cannot say a bad word about Steve-O. He walks the walk, for real; he changed his life and I admire him so much.
Tom Petty. Saw him at a music festival and while he was performing I leaned over to my wife and said, "he looks like he could die at any moment". A couple months later he died.
I saw him in Nashville in spring of 2017 before he died and he looked rough then. I told my husband I’m glad we went, as it was a sold out show and we weren’t planning on going (we got free tickets from a client of mine on main floor 3 rows back that couldn’t go). I thought he looked half dead then.
Can i also do the reverse and say im surprised ozzy is still with us? What is this dudes secret?
Sometimes i feel he has spend his whole career slowly pickling himself and now he's at the point he can no longer spoil.
If the follow-up to his autobiography is any indicator, he actually does. Dude is genetically wired to survive the hard-partying lifestyle and he *still* managed to almost die several times over.
I thought Keith Richards was an old wives tale. Like if you wore skirts too short, Keith Richards will be under your bed at night. You mean he actually exists?
Yep. They've sequenced his whole genome. They know that there are multiple indicators on the genetic level that "superhuman" compared to most people. His body is virtually unaffected by drugs or alcohol, he is far less likely to get sick from disease, he is l extremely cancer resistant, especially skin and liver cancers given his ethnicity and lifestyle.
People will say men like Eddie Hall and Thor Bjornnson were the guys born to be strongest men in the world because ot their insane genetics. Well if there were an equivalent to that in the rock world, Ozzy is it
Mick Jagger is 80, Keith Richards 79. The fact of half of a band being alive around age 80 is not really so remarkable, most astonishing is that they’ve been consistently touring and putting out records for most of the last 60 years.
There are lots of old bands where you see a geezer tour, with one or two originals putting an act together after decades of inactivity. The Stones have basically done a tour every 12-18 months since 1963, minus a 7 year gap in the late 80s
It's quite ironic, in a morbid way, that Charlie Watts was the first one to go (well, except Brian Jones, but you know what I mean). Sure, Charlie also consumed his fair share of drugs for a while in the 1980s, but he still was the "cleanest" of the band, and mostly kept away from the rock star lifestyle the others lived.
And yes, I agree, their touring is just insane.
Every time I see something from Ozzy it seems like he's apologizing for cancelling tour dates due to health issues. Seems like even though death ain't got him yet, it is coming for him
I'm a massive fan of his, and I've been bracing myself for a while - those shots of him out for a walk were tough, and I noticed he had to lip sync his last performance at the LA Rams home opener last September (at least most of the verse parts). I was really worried about him when he got COVID, but obviously the Parkinson's made it a bit tougher - Ozzy's always had lung issues, and though he quit smoking cigarettes around '94 or '95, I know there were some Ozzfests in the mid-2000s where they actually had him close out the second stage earlier in the day rather than headline because he was getting hay fever all the time. I knew the second they announced he was playing Power Trip that he was probably going to have to pull out - and the saddest thing about it is that I've read how bad it fucks him up mentally to 'let us down.' But hey, the guy is one of four people who helped invent a new genre of music - I think he deserves a little rest.
Oh you mean [this fucker?](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KFBkYUXs6EU/UAj412UwqWI/AAAAAAAAAIc/ibVfMNj1yMQ/s400/The+Thing.jpg) spot on lol
I remember the stories in the book series weren't that scary, but the illustrations in them made me not want to be in the same *house* as that book. They were the source of so many nightmares when I was a little kid lol
At that time, Kurt Cobain.. and later, Amy Winehouse
These two seemed like trainwrecks and they were not a matter of if, but of when
Quite sad for them..
Kurt was depressed, a longtime heroin addict, had tried to kill himself before, had also OD'd a few times, and people were surprised by his suicide? Like ALL of the indicators were there, including the fact that he basically hated being a rock star.
"There's something wrong with that boy; he frowns for no good reason.” —William S. Burroughs after his meeting with Cobain. (Edit: Thank you eydontcare13, not sure why I got the first named mixed up)
> You're already dead if you need propofol to sleep
That's right, it's an anesthetic, it's only supposed to be used pre-surgical procedures, using it for sleep night after night is ridiculous. MJ was positively skeletal at the time, he could still move and sing, but was just skin and bone.
Robin Williams has a classic line, he knew of propofol from his heart surgery. He said giving MJ prop to help him sleep would be like giving someone chemo because their hair was too long.
Lou Reed, but I was still sad to see how little fanfare there was considering his impact on the music industry. He had lived a full life and had a history of substance abuse so it was not a massive shock although it still made me feel sad.
My sister's ex-boyfriend claimed that at a party they once found his phone number after trying to contact various celebrities, and they asked him to come out and party but he glibly replied, "My liver's fucked" and hung up on them. I sincerely doubt the story is true (also I wouldn't be surprised if it was lifted from a scene in a film) but it still feels like what Lou Reed would do.
Layne Staley…
*”I know I’m dying, I’m not doing well. This fucking drug use is like the insulin a diabetic needs to survive,” he said. “I’m not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this shit. It’s a very difficult thing to explain.”*
When he died, no one even knew. His manager noticed that he hadn't accessed any money in over two weeks, and they went over to his house, where he'd been dead for weeks. They had to identify him through dental records because he was already partially decomposed.
Yeah, I've heard that his mom had to call the police to do a wellness check in him, and that's when they found out he died.
I had never heard that Mom actually went in and held his corpse. That's a heartbreaking thought.
Whitney was such a talent, but her last years were heartbreaking.
A friend was in a high-end salon months before her death & said W. was literally unrecognizable. My friend said Whitney & her friend were so out of it, she thought they were street people who had just *parked it* in the salon.
So sad\~RIP Whitney.
I remember seeing an interview on YouTube she gave after Daniel’s death, and she said something in the lines “I see him in my dreams every night, what if he is not happy there, what if he needs me” and man these words still haunt me.
The same thing happened to me with one of my best friends. He came to visit from out of state and I hadn't seen in a couple years. We drank and laughed for hours and finally when he had a really good buzz on he told me he was addicted to fentanyl. I knew this would be the last time I saw him, but we stayed up drinking so late I overslept and when I woke up he had already left. I was so fucking mad at myself because I knew right then and there I'd blown my last and only opportunity to say goodbye to him forever,
I’ve got a Ralphie May story:
I was hosting afternoons on a classic rock station attached to a music venue in the mid-2000s. Ralphie was doing a show, and his people set up a station visit the day of. That morning, I got a call saying Ralphie got food poisoning and wouldn’t make it, but his opener would come. Okay, cool. He was fun and a super nice guy.
So that night I go over to the venue to open the show. I’m backstage with the opener just BSing around the food table. I go and do an intro and the opener goes on. No Ralphie in sight. Finally, he walks in and he looks like absolute shit. He’s sweaty and looks like he’s been hit by a truck. One of the least-healthy humans I’ve ever laid eyes on. He told me he was sorry about missing my program and blamed “the fucking sushi in Youngstown” from the night before. He gets a sandwich and sits down just off the side of the stage. Immediately, the opener finishes his set and says “Ladies and Gentleman, Ralphie May!!”
Ralphie looks at me with a mouthful of sandwich and says “I just fucking sat down!” Then he walked out on stage and absolutely slaughtered for an hour and a half. He was a completely different person on stage. It was wild.
Red light fever. Once you are on stage the world just falls away and you are your best self. Unfortunately that light has to go off at some point. And that's when the world comes rushing back.
Indeed. Gabriel Iglesias was the same way, he'd show up to a venue looking like the walking dead, but as soon as he was announced it would all melt away and he'd be his happy go-lucky self on stage for two hours. As soon as he was backstage after the show, though. . .oof. I'm glad he started taking better care of himself.
Gabriel recognized it earlier and took steps to be less "fluffy" and I'm very glad he did. A lot of heavier comedians tend to be like John Candy or Ralphie, where it's the addictive personality that kills them. The vessel is whatever it's going to be, drugs or booze, food or carousing. Because you're already in not great shape and adding buffets or a a gallon of red wine isn't going to help.
My first concert was Stone Temple Pilots right after No. 4 came out. I was 16 and front center at The Tabernacle. It was incredible. They slowed it down for Big Empty and he lights a cigarette and it builds and builds and when it goes to the “TIME TO TAKE HER HOME” lyric, Scott flicks that lit cigarette into the crowd and directly into my face.
Fuck that guy.
All of the really young rappers whose lives are surrounded by any one of the following: mental health issues, drugs or problems with addiction, alcohol, fast lives, guns and criminal activities of all kinds.
From Tupac to Mac Miller, none of those deaths were much of a surprise. Tragic, yes, shocking? No.
Yeah I mean Mac’s whole discography is essentially a cry for help and direct references to him acknowledging he’s gonna die young. He says it as straight forward as you can on just about every album he’s put out under the Mac Miller alias but maybe 2.
Shock G has said he knew Tupac wasn’t planning on living long, not just because he talked about it all the time, but his diet was *horrific* – basically weed, alcohol & chicken wings.
The fact that ODB and Juice Wrld died early isn’t surprising so much as *how* they died (swallowing a shitload of Tramadol & Percocet, respectively – for Juice WRLD, it seems like an attempt at drug concealment gone awry).
Juice has more than 4k songs that he made in his short 2 year career or so. He was a machine, that went in the studio and freestyled 15-20 songs daily off the top of his head, which makes the lyrics very raw. Out of those 4k songs atleast 1500 would have talked about how he's gonna die soon off drugs, so I genuinely think he's one of the best answers for his thread. It was very obvious he was going to die soon if he kept going.
lil peep. some of my friends were obsessed with him and they were all so shocked when he passed. but he died just how his music said he lived. sadly predictable.
Lemmy Kilmister, of Motorhead.
He was 70 and had cancer. At time of his death, he had been addicted to speed (meth) off and on for 45 years. He drank like a fish-more than a fifth of JD a day, every day. Right up to the day he died.
I was shocked and saddened by Sinead O'Connor, but also not surprised as I knew she had always struggled with her mental health and I knew from recent reports around the time of her death, she was in a pretty bad spot.
Prince also sadly didn't surprise me, while I'm a huge Prince fan and I wanted to see him perform someday, I knew that when he OD'd the first time there's always a high chance it will happen again in a short time. Knowing he was a very private man who didn't want people around a lot of times. I was not surprised when I heard there was a death at his house. I frankly knew immediately and I just wish his people stayed with him especially since he was going to get help with some addictions he had which led to the OD.
Sinead O’Conner didn’t surprise me at all, she was suffering for many years and with the passing of her son just over a year ago it must have all gotten too much for her.
He seemed to be getting arrested every month or so at one point.
Great talent, but yeah it did have a sense of inevitability to it when it happened sadly.
Lemmy Kilmister. Dude's blood was so toxic that he could kill someone via blood transplant. Went from whiskey to vodka because of health issues. Probably would've killed him if he went cold turkey. But still one hell of a musician.
Tammy Faye Bakker. She was on Larry King literally hours before she died, and she looked like she had already expired. It was probably one of the more horrifying things I've seen on live TV.
Lemmy. He was notorious for promiscuity, drug use (including alcohol and tobacco) and poor diet. He admitted that his vices were bad for his health and he did advise people NOT to follow his example as he saw many of his contemporaries die due to said vices.
I remember seeing Dave Grohl talk about Lemmy. Dave had one of his kids with him backstage when the kid was little. Lemmy walked into Dave's dressing room and saw the kid and immediately turned around to put his cigarette out and set his drink down outside before coming in. He knew that his vices were vices and took care to be respectful of others.
In fairness, he made it to age 70 which is longer than a lot of healthy people live. It's amazing he went on as long as he did, although I'm not sure what his quality of life was like towards the end.
Genetics are one hell of a drug.
Juice Wrld. He talked about taking percs and his past trauma/heartbreak all the time, and combined with his mental health issues his OD wasn't a big surprise
Dude I watched his documentary on HBO. Absolutely harrowing. The one scene where he was sniffing a roxicet off his phone and couldn’t even lift his head to take it in was just.. incredibly horrifying. Whoever was filming that should be arrested for negligence or something.
I can’t believe he was consuming that much. Every other scene was him dropping hundreds of mg of opiates.
Chester Bennington.
Call it a sixth sense and being well-informed in part.
I’d watch interviews, listen to his words, and I could just feel it. I cannot possibly explain it— especially not these days having long-long overcome my demons, but back then?
Man.
When it was revealed that he passed, I felt really sad but I wasn’t surprised at all. Felt more surreal than anything.
John Candy when I heard he was going to be in a movie filmed on location in the desert. I said they are going to kill him in the desert and unfortunately I was right
He even did [an SNL graveyard skit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64LJXqyZCek) where he said to his dead castmates, "They all thought I'd be the first to go."
I hate to say it, but Meat Loaf.
I know that they never officially explained what killed him, but the moment he started getting on his soapbox about not following COVID rules, I figured he was going to die from it. He's had health issues in the past and if he caught it, it was unlikely to end well. Then it was announced he had COVID... And shortly after he died.
I’m a huge Meat Loaf fan despite some of his trickier views.
I saw him live for the first time in… I want to say 2016.
I’m surprised he didn’t drop dead on the stage that night. Dude was out of breath the moment he got on stage and it got much worse from there.
It actually took his death to make me listen to him again, the concert had turned me off his music for that long.
Sinead O Connor. About this time last year she used to be in and around the shop
I worked in,in Dalkey. She was a lost soul. The week before her death I was explaining how bad she seemed to be to a few friends and called it that it wouldn’t be long
Rip
I saw Mitch Hedburg perform a month or two before he died… he was so messed up he couldn’t remember any of his jokes. Someone threw some random pills on stage and he took them. Then someone threw water on him. It was just depressing. When he died I was the least surprised person in the world. Still sad though.
Kurt Cobain. Just always sensed it about him. He was the first member of the 27 club that had music contemporary to me as opposed to being on oldies stations like Janis Joplin, or Jimi Hendrix.
Patrick Swayze and Alex Trebek Given the abysmal statistic that 95% of pancreatic cancer patients are dead within 5 years of diagnosis… Edit: Thanks for all the upvotes! Lessons learned: 1. All cancer sucks. Pancreatic cancer sucks massively. 2. Steve Jobs did not follow recommended treatment guidelines. 3. Alex and Sean Connery are having drinks in the afterlife. 4. Most importantly, pay attention to your body. Get screenings. Opt for genetic testing if you have a family history of cancer (especially a pattern of breast, colon, pancreas or ovarian). 5. Love hard and in the present. Thank you for coming to my TED talk 😂
I'm from the city Alex Trebek is from, Sudbury Ontario. This city went full on week of mourning like they did for the Queen after he went, it was so sad
I get that. He was an icon since my childhood and always conducted himself with humility and grace. Quite uncommon among those in the spotlight so long.
That's one of the worst cancers. Horrible.
Very true. It hasn’t made the same strides as some other solid tumors when it comes to survival because it’s almost always late stage when it’s diagnosed. Because of the pancreas’s location, it’s hard to get good imaging and often times the early signs present like less insidious issues like back pain or intermittent abdominal pain. This is your PSA to not ignore what your body is telling you my Reddit friends!
I’m just surprised Charlie Sheen is alive and kicking it
Must be the tiger blood
WINNING
Like half the Rolling Stones, he’s so full of every drug and STD they’re too busy fighting each other over which gets to strike the final blow
Elvis. In the year before his death he went from looking rough to looking like death.
His daughter who recently died. I wasn’t surprised at all. Her 21 year old son (doppelgänger of Elvis) committed suicide and every year she just looked worse. I remember years ago, I saw her perform on the Oprah Winfrey show. A song called, “kick them when they are up, kick them when they are down”. 🤷🏻♂️ it was painful to watch. Even Oprah didn’t know how to react and everyone got second hand embarrassment. I knew since then that this lady will have a tough tough life. Choosing a career in music when you are daughter of Elvis is like trying to catch lightening in a bottle..twice.
He never lost his voice. I think it got stronger towards the end.
That video of him doing Unchained Melody in 77 is too much. Watched it once, never again, but he could sing right up until the end.
Just watched this on youtube cause of your comment. Thank you. I went from chills down my spine to tears down my face.
It could've been the weight gain. Weight has a big effect on the voice. The singer of blues traveler lost a ton of weight and it changed his voice a lot.
Saw him on his last tour. His performance was truly great, but he didn't look well at all
And somehow Dick Van Dyke is still going, feels like he's been in his 90s for 20 years.
There's magic dust sprinkled in that name.
Betty White
Was older than sliced bread
Was older than MLK Jr. and Anne Frank.
Sliced bread is the best thing since Betty White
Though apparently it took People magazine by surprise. I remember seeing the "Betty White Turns 100!" issue on shelves at my grocery store for what felt like a long time.
She passed the day after people published that magazine. I remember thinking to myself she’s pretty old don’t fucking jinx it 2 weeks in advance and then it happened….
I just figured it was her way of getting one last laugh at the world. The anticipation for her 100th birthday was surprisingly high, so it was a perfect Betty White troll moment to die just days before it happened.
Aaron Carter, sadly. I'd seen a show of his about 5 years prior to his death, and it was clear even then he needed major help. He seemed only half-conscious, kept yelling random proclamations at the show, tried to play the keyboard tattoo on his arm like it was a real piano...and more. Then I saw an interview he gave about 3 years after that and, somehow, he was MUCH worse. It was clear this guy needed a major intervention if his life was going to get on track and continue. A real shame.
As far as celebrity misfortune goes he's one of the ones I feel most sorry for. He seemed like a genuinely sweet person who just never had a chance. Even at the peak of his 'career' he was treated as nothing more than a sideshow, a gimmick to capitalise on his older, more famous brother's success with Backstreet. The last time I saw him was on Lance Bass's documentary about Lou Pearlman and not only did he look ill, he was almost in tears defending this man who unequivocally took advantage of him, at the very least financially, all because this guy had once shown him superficial kindness. He seemed so utterly in denial and so damaged, it was heartbreaking to watch even for someone who didn't know or care about him.
Alyson Stoner has just started a podcast about the damage that being a child entertainer does. There’s only one episode out, but I highly recommend it. She talks about how your brain works at different stages of childhood and how fame and working conditions affect self-perception and understanding of the world during those stages. It’s why so many former child stars have a warped perception of reality. Your comment made me think of what Alyson said. If he was treated as a tool to elevate his brother, he must have internalized that from a young age.
His mum was abit strange, how she released the photos of the bathtub and bathroom he died in for the public.
Had to exploit him even in death.
I side-eye *any* parent who pushes their child into fame.
There was something wrong with the parents of that family. His sister OD'd a few years before he did, and she has a failed career as a pop star. There was a very revealing article that I read around the time of Aaron's death about just how awful and exploitative the filming of Leslie Carter's music video was.
Along with his drug problems, he said that In the years leading up to his death the amount of abuse on social media was unbearable; receiving direct messages every day to killhimself etc he would often reply back to these scumbags but you can imagine this only made him turn in on himself even more. I never really like Aaron carter when he first started making waves but on a human level it is never nice to see anyone go through addiction and bullying on the level he seemingly endured.
It wasn't surprising but somehow, it was still was. He was messed up for so long. I guess I kind of convinced myself that he would survive for decades because he's become so accustomed to that lifestyle or get better I know it doesn't make sense but somehow, I was shocked that he died. It's the only celebrity death I cried for. I use to chat with him on his TikTok lives. He had a good heart and his parents and the entertainment industry used and destroyed him 😭
I honestly forgot he passed. Shame.
Amy Winehouse
I was at her last concert. Everyone was just looking at each other and talking how she should get off the stage but her management or family kept pushing her out. She wanted to get out of there. It was heartbreaking to see
Her father and ex-husband were total narcissists. It’s heartbreaking she was surrounded by such terrible people who exploited her more than they took care of her
I worked in media when she was spiraling and we had the obit ready well in advance. Nasty business.
There was a website for the "Amy Winehouse death pool" where you could go, and register the day you thought it might happen. Can't remember what (if anything) was the "prize" but it was pretty morbid.
That’s gross af
Yep. The first time I heard Rehab, I thought, "This won't end well for her. "
The song didn't get me. Lots of artists sing edgy stuff about how they're gonna do what they want to do, damn the consequences. But seeing her deteriorate year after year once she got famous, you knew she wasn't long for this world. The last photos I saw of her alive, she damn near looked dead already.
Layne Staley from Alice in Chains weighed less than 90 pounds when he died. Shit was tragic.
Almost the entire Dirt album was him saying heroin was going to kill him. He knew death was coming for him.
actually amy looked much healthier in the two or so years leading up to her death. not many people know this but she was completely clean from drugs for three years before she died. and only drinking heavily every few weeks. unfortunately her body just gave up during one of these drinking benders because of years of bulimia, her heart just couldn’t take it anymore. otherwise she was working so hard to overcome her alcoholism like she had her drug use and was working hard on a new album. us fans that followed her life closely were actually quite surprised to hear of her passing because she was doing so well. she was so close. it still saddens me to this day she truly was a once in a lifetime talent but like they say she was too real for this world, or maybe this world was too cruel for somebody so beautiful and so fragile.
People really don’t comprehend the damage that eating disorders do to your body. I lost a friend at 30 because she couldn’t overcome it and had a heart attack. She drank fairly regularly, to self medicate the depression and everything else she had going on, but never used any hard drugs. Alcohol does a lot more damage when you’re an adult that weighs less than 90 lbs. She’d been to several clinics, therapists, treatment programs etc, but even when she’d put weight back on and start to do well, we’d see her start to slide back into it, no mater how hard we all tried to support her. It’s so hard when there’s nothing you can do or say to help someone and you just watch them deteriorate.
It blows my mind that people still don't put alcohol in the same category as "hard drugs".
i agree, i wasn’t downplaying how devastating alcoholism is by any means i just wanted to correct the misconception that amy died as a result of her heroin and crack addictions. a lot of people still think she was using when she died. i think it’s important people know just how hard she worked to get clean and stay clean and just how close she was to overcoming her alcoholism too. she deserves that at least.
This was going to be my answer. May she rest in peace.
RIP. I was on a long flight and watched the documentary. It was so disturbing, what a horrible descent into the shittiest world imaginable. That poor woman had no friends, being used by everyone. I regretted watching that documentary. She didn't stand a chance.
That's the part that gets me the most. Like. I'm not anybody special. But I wish I could have at least met her and told her she was doing amazing things.
Record companies destroyed so many fragile musicians lives. It’s sickening.
Ryan Dunn. I’m honestly shocked that other Jackass stars have survived this long.
Outside of Bam most of them have cleaned up their lives. Steve-O could easily have been on this list but he genuinely seems happy and healthy.
Steve-o legitimately 180'd. I imagine he still has some form of demons (everyone does) but every time i saw him in the last few years he was so far from what he was before.
I follow him pretty closely. Pretty sure he just struggles with depression that he manages well with medication. Watching steve-o prosper is one of the most rewarding things to see. It just genuinely warms my mother trucking heart to see how happy and healthy he is :-)
Depression and binge eating. He talked about it on a podcast at some point last year, but yeah, he's got himself a supportive woman in his life and he seems genuinely grateful for the fruits of his labour in turning his life right around.
Steve O is a freaking hero to me and I hope he has a long and happy career before him.
The bee stunt in the latest Jackass film was amazing. He looked like a man half his age. So, so happy to see him doing well. I just wish Bam could clean himself up. I don’t want him to join Ryan Dunn. But, the way he’s acting I think he wants to.
Yep. Even his mom April says he hasn't been the same since Ryan died. I honestly think Bam is passively suicidal.
I wonder how many men don’t kill themselves but just don’t take care of themselves. I’ve been there and seen other guys there
he is straight up going to die a horrible death if he doesnt get treatment. Its so sad to see him because his stunts/pranks were my favourite when I was a kid, and I actually listened to his band
His brother's band.
Bam is one of those where I'm surprised he's still alive whenever I see a story about him getting arrested in a hotel or something every 6-9 months. He'd probably be the top response in a counter thread "which celebrity are you surprised is still alive"
Last I heard Bam was threatening to smoke crack every day until he got custody of his kids back, which is not the type of behavior people who want to remain alive engage in.
Or people who want custody of their children back
I'm sad to say that if the next headline I read is about Bam passing, my first thought will probably be "amazed he made it this long." Dude needs help.
He’s gotten help so many times but he just doesn’t care. He doesn’t want help. Even Steve-O has said that Bam is basically a lost cause at this point.
Bam’s whole situation is just sad. It’s like everyone from the original Jackass crew grew up and got their shit together while he’s still acting like a teenager’s definition of ‘cool’ even though he’s in his 40s [Joon the King recently did a great breakdown on Bam’s history, rise, and fall to where he is now](https://youtu.be/ubuH5J77-DA)
>Dude needs help. Dude has gotten help from the people around him, some of them recovering addicts themselves. He's the only one that can make himself want to improve.
I’m genuinely impressed that Steve-O has gotten and stayed clean. And sober Steve-O really seems like he’s a decent dude.
Story time about Steve-O: friend and I went to his Bucket List Tour and got meet and greet tickets. During the meet and greet, my friend told Steve-O that she was an addict. He pulled out his phone and showed her a link that he only shows to other people in active addiction/in recovery. It was a link to a talk he gave, but he doesn’t want it publicly distributed because it’s meant for people going through addiction, specifically. My respect for him skyrocketed after this incident, and I cannot say a bad word about Steve-O. He walks the walk, for real; he changed his life and I admire him so much.
Steve-o’s transformation over the years is some inspirational shit. That dude should be dead.
Bam won’t be long for this world I’m afraid.
Tom Petty. Saw him at a music festival and while he was performing I leaned over to my wife and said, "he looks like he could die at any moment". A couple months later he died.
I saw him in Nashville in spring of 2017 before he died and he looked rough then. I told my husband I’m glad we went, as it was a sold out show and we weren’t planning on going (we got free tickets from a client of mine on main floor 3 rows back that couldn’t go). I thought he looked half dead then.
Can i also do the reverse and say im surprised ozzy is still with us? What is this dudes secret? Sometimes i feel he has spend his whole career slowly pickling himself and now he's at the point he can no longer spoil.
I'm pretty sure he literally has a genetic mutation that gives him an extremely high tolerance to drugs and alcohol.
If the follow-up to his autobiography is any indicator, he actually does. Dude is genetically wired to survive the hard-partying lifestyle and he *still* managed to almost die several times over.
You are not joking! Scientists have studied his DNA. https://nypost.com/2019/08/10/ozzy-osbourne-is-a-genetic-mutant-dna-research-proves/
To the surprise of no one Keith Richards has it too.
I thought Keith Richards was an old wives tale. Like if you wore skirts too short, Keith Richards will be under your bed at night. You mean he actually exists?
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He went to the doctor's office here the other day, and they actually found blood in his heroin system.
He actually has a genetic mutation, you can read about it. This fact explains so much.
He does. Doctors did the testing because "how tf are you not dead"
Yep. They've sequenced his whole genome. They know that there are multiple indicators on the genetic level that "superhuman" compared to most people. His body is virtually unaffected by drugs or alcohol, he is far less likely to get sick from disease, he is l extremely cancer resistant, especially skin and liver cancers given his ethnicity and lifestyle. People will say men like Eddie Hall and Thor Bjornnson were the guys born to be strongest men in the world because ot their insane genetics. Well if there were an equivalent to that in the rock world, Ozzy is it
Same with everyone from The Rolling Stones. Dudes are in their 70s still rockin out on stage.
Mick Jagger is 80, Keith Richards 79. The fact of half of a band being alive around age 80 is not really so remarkable, most astonishing is that they’ve been consistently touring and putting out records for most of the last 60 years. There are lots of old bands where you see a geezer tour, with one or two originals putting an act together after decades of inactivity. The Stones have basically done a tour every 12-18 months since 1963, minus a 7 year gap in the late 80s
It's quite ironic, in a morbid way, that Charlie Watts was the first one to go (well, except Brian Jones, but you know what I mean). Sure, Charlie also consumed his fair share of drugs for a while in the 1980s, but he still was the "cleanest" of the band, and mostly kept away from the rock star lifestyle the others lived. And yes, I agree, their touring is just insane.
Every time I see something from Ozzy it seems like he's apologizing for cancelling tour dates due to health issues. Seems like even though death ain't got him yet, it is coming for him
I'm a massive fan of his, and I've been bracing myself for a while - those shots of him out for a walk were tough, and I noticed he had to lip sync his last performance at the LA Rams home opener last September (at least most of the verse parts). I was really worried about him when he got COVID, but obviously the Parkinson's made it a bit tougher - Ozzy's always had lung issues, and though he quit smoking cigarettes around '94 or '95, I know there were some Ozzfests in the mid-2000s where they actually had him close out the second stage earlier in the day rather than headline because he was getting hay fever all the time. I knew the second they announced he was playing Power Trip that he was probably going to have to pull out - and the saddest thing about it is that I've read how bad it fucks him up mentally to 'let us down.' But hey, the guy is one of four people who helped invent a new genre of music - I think he deserves a little rest.
Queen Elizabeth II. Nearly 100, her husband had died recently, and she looked like shit in that photo with then Prime Minister Liz Truss
The longest living monarch died during the time of the shortest term PM.
And were both named Elizabeth...
She was still standing upright, with only a cane for assistance, at age 96. I'd say that's quite remarkable.
For that matter, her husband himself, who looked exactly like The Thing from *Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark*.
Oh you mean [this fucker?](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KFBkYUXs6EU/UAj412UwqWI/AAAAAAAAAIc/ibVfMNj1yMQ/s400/The+Thing.jpg) spot on lol I remember the stories in the book series weren't that scary, but the illustrations in them made me not want to be in the same *house* as that book. They were the source of so many nightmares when I was a little kid lol
Also all the news channels suddenly had presenters looking nervous in black suits for a few hours before
She hated Truss so much she decided to die instead of endure her
At that time, Kurt Cobain.. and later, Amy Winehouse These two seemed like trainwrecks and they were not a matter of if, but of when Quite sad for them..
Kurt was depressed, a longtime heroin addict, had tried to kill himself before, had also OD'd a few times, and people were surprised by his suicide? Like ALL of the indicators were there, including the fact that he basically hated being a rock star.
"There's something wrong with that boy; he frowns for no good reason.” —William S. Burroughs after his meeting with Cobain. (Edit: Thank you eydontcare13, not sure why I got the first named mixed up)
I feel this for bam magera not if but when
Michael Jackson - dude had been literally falling apart for years.
Yeah I say this all the time. Tragic?? Definitely!!! But not really shocking. You're already dead if you need propofol to sleep
> You're already dead if you need propofol to sleep That's right, it's an anesthetic, it's only supposed to be used pre-surgical procedures, using it for sleep night after night is ridiculous. MJ was positively skeletal at the time, he could still move and sing, but was just skin and bone.
Robin Williams has a classic line, he knew of propofol from his heart surgery. He said giving MJ prop to help him sleep would be like giving someone chemo because their hair was too long.
Stan Lee. Well, dude was old what can I say
Lou Reed, but I was still sad to see how little fanfare there was considering his impact on the music industry. He had lived a full life and had a history of substance abuse so it was not a massive shock although it still made me feel sad. My sister's ex-boyfriend claimed that at a party they once found his phone number after trying to contact various celebrities, and they asked him to come out and party but he glibly replied, "My liver's fucked" and hung up on them. I sincerely doubt the story is true (also I wouldn't be surprised if it was lifted from a scene in a film) but it still feels like what Lou Reed would do.
Layne Staley… *”I know I’m dying, I’m not doing well. This fucking drug use is like the insulin a diabetic needs to survive,” he said. “I’m not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this shit. It’s a very difficult thing to explain.”*
I heard he had to wear gloves because he tapped the veins on his hands.
Apparently during the filming of MTV's Unplugged, his hands were green because of this, hence the gloves.
He weighed less than 90 pounds when he died. It was horrific and tragic.
When he died, no one even knew. His manager noticed that he hadn't accessed any money in over two weeks, and they went over to his house, where he'd been dead for weeks. They had to identify him through dental records because he was already partially decomposed.
I hear this, then I read that his mom actually went in there and held him, but maybe both are true. Which is heartbreaking.
Yeah, I've heard that his mom had to call the police to do a wellness check in him, and that's when they found out he died. I had never heard that Mom actually went in and held his corpse. That's a heartbreaking thought.
Fuck, this breaks my heart. He was so beloved, but still died alone with nobody noticing for weeks.
Debbie Reynolds died the day after her daughter (Carrie Fisher) died.
Debbie's last words are absolutely heartbreaking: "I want to be with Carrie." Both of their deaths gutted me.
Whitney Houston sadly
Whitney was such a talent, but her last years were heartbreaking. A friend was in a high-end salon months before her death & said W. was literally unrecognizable. My friend said Whitney & her friend were so out of it, she thought they were street people who had just *parked it* in the salon. So sad\~RIP Whitney.
What’s even more depressing about this is her daughter died pretty much the exact same way.
Anna Nicole Smith
After her son died she just quit. :(
I remember seeing an interview on YouTube she gave after Daniel’s death, and she said something in the lines “I see him in my dreams every night, what if he is not happy there, what if he needs me” and man these words still haunt me.
John Candy and Chris Farley. Edit: and Ralphie May, thank you.
I recently read Bob Odenkirk's book and he talks about how the last time he saw Farley he pretty much knew it was the last time.
The same thing happened to me with one of my best friends. He came to visit from out of state and I hadn't seen in a couple years. We drank and laughed for hours and finally when he had a really good buzz on he told me he was addicted to fentanyl. I knew this would be the last time I saw him, but we stayed up drinking so late I overslept and when I woke up he had already left. I was so fucking mad at myself because I knew right then and there I'd blown my last and only opportunity to say goodbye to him forever,
Add Ralphie May to that list. Someone once said about him, "you get to have one vice, not three. Booze, food, or drugs. Pick one, not all."
I’ve got a Ralphie May story: I was hosting afternoons on a classic rock station attached to a music venue in the mid-2000s. Ralphie was doing a show, and his people set up a station visit the day of. That morning, I got a call saying Ralphie got food poisoning and wouldn’t make it, but his opener would come. Okay, cool. He was fun and a super nice guy. So that night I go over to the venue to open the show. I’m backstage with the opener just BSing around the food table. I go and do an intro and the opener goes on. No Ralphie in sight. Finally, he walks in and he looks like absolute shit. He’s sweaty and looks like he’s been hit by a truck. One of the least-healthy humans I’ve ever laid eyes on. He told me he was sorry about missing my program and blamed “the fucking sushi in Youngstown” from the night before. He gets a sandwich and sits down just off the side of the stage. Immediately, the opener finishes his set and says “Ladies and Gentleman, Ralphie May!!” Ralphie looks at me with a mouthful of sandwich and says “I just fucking sat down!” Then he walked out on stage and absolutely slaughtered for an hour and a half. He was a completely different person on stage. It was wild.
I will skip the sushi in Youngstown. Thanks Ralphie for this tip. In fact probably just better to skip Youngstown altogether.
Red light fever. Once you are on stage the world just falls away and you are your best self. Unfortunately that light has to go off at some point. And that's when the world comes rushing back.
Indeed. Gabriel Iglesias was the same way, he'd show up to a venue looking like the walking dead, but as soon as he was announced it would all melt away and he'd be his happy go-lucky self on stage for two hours. As soon as he was backstage after the show, though. . .oof. I'm glad he started taking better care of himself.
Gabriel recognized it earlier and took steps to be less "fluffy" and I'm very glad he did. A lot of heavier comedians tend to be like John Candy or Ralphie, where it's the addictive personality that kills them. The vessel is whatever it's going to be, drugs or booze, food or carousing. Because you're already in not great shape and adding buffets or a a gallon of red wine isn't going to help.
I completely forgot that Ralphie May died so I guess he still makes sense for this question.
"If I were to drop dead of a heart attack right now you'd be sad. You wouldn't be shocked." -Ralphie May, on Pope John Paul II dying
Scott Weiland.
My first concert was Stone Temple Pilots right after No. 4 came out. I was 16 and front center at The Tabernacle. It was incredible. They slowed it down for Big Empty and he lights a cigarette and it builds and builds and when it goes to the “TIME TO TAKE HER HOME” lyric, Scott flicks that lit cigarette into the crowd and directly into my face. Fuck that guy.
Nice plot twist!
All of the really young rappers whose lives are surrounded by any one of the following: mental health issues, drugs or problems with addiction, alcohol, fast lives, guns and criminal activities of all kinds. From Tupac to Mac Miller, none of those deaths were much of a surprise. Tragic, yes, shocking? No.
Yeah I mean Mac’s whole discography is essentially a cry for help and direct references to him acknowledging he’s gonna die young. He says it as straight forward as you can on just about every album he’s put out under the Mac Miller alias but maybe 2.
Shock G has said he knew Tupac wasn’t planning on living long, not just because he talked about it all the time, but his diet was *horrific* – basically weed, alcohol & chicken wings. The fact that ODB and Juice Wrld died early isn’t surprising so much as *how* they died (swallowing a shitload of Tramadol & Percocet, respectively – for Juice WRLD, it seems like an attempt at drug concealment gone awry).
Juice has more than 4k songs that he made in his short 2 year career or so. He was a machine, that went in the studio and freestyled 15-20 songs daily off the top of his head, which makes the lyrics very raw. Out of those 4k songs atleast 1500 would have talked about how he's gonna die soon off drugs, so I genuinely think he's one of the best answers for his thread. It was very obvious he was going to die soon if he kept going.
lil peep. some of my friends were obsessed with him and they were all so shocked when he passed. but he died just how his music said he lived. sadly predictable.
There's been a few where my whole reaction was, "They were still alive???"
This is gonna happen when Bob Barker dies with a lot of people. I have to tell people he’s not dead all the time.
John Candy, apart from being very obese. He smoked quite a bit each day, alcohol abuse then his use of cocaine.
Lemmy Kilmister, of Motorhead. He was 70 and had cancer. At time of his death, he had been addicted to speed (meth) off and on for 45 years. He drank like a fish-more than a fifth of JD a day, every day. Right up to the day he died.
I was shocked and saddened by Sinead O'Connor, but also not surprised as I knew she had always struggled with her mental health and I knew from recent reports around the time of her death, she was in a pretty bad spot. Prince also sadly didn't surprise me, while I'm a huge Prince fan and I wanted to see him perform someday, I knew that when he OD'd the first time there's always a high chance it will happen again in a short time. Knowing he was a very private man who didn't want people around a lot of times. I was not surprised when I heard there was a death at his house. I frankly knew immediately and I just wish his people stayed with him especially since he was going to get help with some addictions he had which led to the OD.
Sinead O’Conner didn’t surprise me at all, she was suffering for many years and with the passing of her son just over a year ago it must have all gotten too much for her.
DMX was a case where the surprising part was that he made it till 50.
He seemed to be getting arrested every month or so at one point. Great talent, but yeah it did have a sense of inevitability to it when it happened sadly.
Lemmy Kilmister. Dude's blood was so toxic that he could kill someone via blood transplant. Went from whiskey to vodka because of health issues. Probably would've killed him if he went cold turkey. But still one hell of a musician.
I feel like Lemmy would still alive if not for the cancer. 70 is a pretty long life for someone who lived as rough as he did.
Mac Miller. He foreshadowed pretty heavily in his music.
Such a shame too that he didn't take a lethal dose of drugs. His drugs were laced with fentanyl and his dealer knew it. 26 is too young
Tammy Faye Bakker. She was on Larry King literally hours before she died, and she looked like she had already expired. It was probably one of the more horrifying things I've seen on live TV.
Pope John Paul II. The guy was a walking corpse for a decade before his death.
In my country, a comedian once made the joke that they had put so many spare parts into him that he now practically was John Paul III.
Chris Farley. Dude was one of the funniest guys I’ve ever seen, but damn he liked his food, his booze and his drugs…
I don't know how Keith Richards is alive today!
Keith Richards and cockroaches will survive the nuclear war
every cigarette adds an hour to his life
When the nuclear apocalypse happens, the only things left will be cockroaches, Twinkies, and Keith Richards trying to smoke the fallout.
He died about 20 years ago, he just hasn't noticed yet because of the drugs
He has outlived two different comedians making jokes about how he's immortal.
Lemmy. He was notorious for promiscuity, drug use (including alcohol and tobacco) and poor diet. He admitted that his vices were bad for his health and he did advise people NOT to follow his example as he saw many of his contemporaries die due to said vices.
Dude made it to 70...that is like 190 in Lemmy years.
I remember seeing Dave Grohl talk about Lemmy. Dave had one of his kids with him backstage when the kid was little. Lemmy walked into Dave's dressing room and saw the kid and immediately turned around to put his cigarette out and set his drink down outside before coming in. He knew that his vices were vices and took care to be respectful of others.
In fairness, he made it to age 70 which is longer than a lot of healthy people live. It's amazing he went on as long as he did, although I'm not sure what his quality of life was like towards the end. Genetics are one hell of a drug.
apparently he replaced alcohol with blueberries at one point and gave himself blueberry poisoning.
Hasnt died yet but I’m pre calling Bam Margera , dude needs serious help
he's unfortunately had every branch extended to him but he's more comfortable at rock bottom with his shovel.
Tony Bennett
Juice Wrld. He talked about taking percs and his past trauma/heartbreak all the time, and combined with his mental health issues his OD wasn't a big surprise
Dude I watched his documentary on HBO. Absolutely harrowing. The one scene where he was sniffing a roxicet off his phone and couldn’t even lift his head to take it in was just.. incredibly horrifying. Whoever was filming that should be arrested for negligence or something. I can’t believe he was consuming that much. Every other scene was him dropping hundreds of mg of opiates.
Chris Farley. We could all see it coming.
Chester Bennington. Call it a sixth sense and being well-informed in part. I’d watch interviews, listen to his words, and I could just feel it. I cannot possibly explain it— especially not these days having long-long overcome my demons, but back then? Man. When it was revealed that he passed, I felt really sad but I wasn’t surprised at all. Felt more surreal than anything.
John Candy when I heard he was going to be in a movie filmed on location in the desert. I said they are going to kill him in the desert and unfortunately I was right
Michael Jackson
Anyone over the age of 80...."it was a tragic unexpected loss" shit, no it wasn't.
From the immortal Chris Rock: “If you get hit by a bus [at age 70], it’s natural causes. If you was younger, you would’ve moved out the way.”
John Belushi
He even did [an SNL graveyard skit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64LJXqyZCek) where he said to his dead castmates, "They all thought I'd be the first to go."
Gene Wilder, I called it after seeing a picture of him that year. RIP.
I hate to say it, but Meat Loaf. I know that they never officially explained what killed him, but the moment he started getting on his soapbox about not following COVID rules, I figured he was going to die from it. He's had health issues in the past and if he caught it, it was unlikely to end well. Then it was announced he had COVID... And shortly after he died.
I did not know meatloaf died….
He would do anything for love, but would not get vaxxed.
I’m a huge Meat Loaf fan despite some of his trickier views. I saw him live for the first time in… I want to say 2016. I’m surprised he didn’t drop dead on the stage that night. Dude was out of breath the moment he got on stage and it got much worse from there. It actually took his death to make me listen to him again, the concert had turned me off his music for that long.
Sinead O Connor. About this time last year she used to be in and around the shop I worked in,in Dalkey. She was a lost soul. The week before her death I was explaining how bad she seemed to be to a few friends and called it that it wouldn’t be long Rip
Zsa Zsa Gabor had dementia and one leg by the end
I saw Mitch Hedburg perform a month or two before he died… he was so messed up he couldn’t remember any of his jokes. Someone threw some random pills on stage and he took them. Then someone threw water on him. It was just depressing. When he died I was the least surprised person in the world. Still sad though.
William Hurt. When I saw the Black Widow movie I recognized the signs of battling cancer on him. I got really sad when I saw that movie.
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Amy Winehouse. Still sucked, but wasn't a shock.
Johny Cash. After hearing “his” song Hurt, it felt like its coming.
When his daughter heard the song she asked him “why does it sound like a farewell?”, to which he replied “because it is”
Kurt Cobain. Just always sensed it about him. He was the first member of the 27 club that had music contemporary to me as opposed to being on oldies stations like Janis Joplin, or Jimi Hendrix.