January 6, 2008
Just What I Needed…
…to both help me feel the span of years on my back-trail and remind me that nothing’s forever, was to read this column.
Just look at those lists, by the month, no less. I’m not much of one to follow celebrity demises, but several of the names therein definitely took me by surprise. So many of them in one year!
As Greg Crosby concludes,
One year, so many celebrities. I don’t think I’ve missed anyone of note in this list — if I have, let me know. Happy New Year and remember one thing about this world of ours … no one gets out of it alive! Enjoy yourself and be good to people.
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January 6th, 2008 at 9:28 am
What a list!
Lots of my “favorites,” and some who were not, are on that list.
January 6th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Seth,
Maybe we should invest bucks in the funeral business?
January 6th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
A few of them will be missed and a few remembered.
January 6th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
aw u will live forever Seth..in your
writings~!
January 6th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
AOW –
I was taken by surprise by several of the names on the list, even though I realize that some of them were already famous adults when I was less than ten years old.
If one funeral home could have handled a mere 50% of those funerals, I imagine the owner would become known as the Bill Gates of the obits.
Shoprat –
Absolutely.
I’ve never seen an annual compilation like that, and I wonder if that was an unusually long list for celebrity deaths in a single year.
Angel –
Thanks.
At least, if only I could finish a manuscript I’ve been plodding along on and negotiate the daunting task of getting it published, and it then proceeds to sell…
The way things are shaping up today, writings are the only way in which I’d want to live forever. Forever, hell, beyond another twenty years is more like it!
January 7th, 2008 at 8:43 am
I’ve never seen a list like that before either. WOW! That is many more than I thought!
The celebrities I really enjoyed don’t seem dead to me, as we can watch them on film anytime we like. They have achieved imortality in one of the two ways imortality is possible, the other being in writing, of course.
January 7th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
“I wonder if that was an unusually long list for celebrity deaths in a single year.” At first glance, yes. But a brief survey from the jolly folk at Dead People Server
http://www.dpsinfo.com/dps/2006.html#top
we note an inverse relation as we delve into the deaths of the ‘famous’ going back year by year. My take is that it was harder to be famous back in the good old days.
January 7th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Gayle –
There is a good reason to acquire old films and TV shows on DVD as it seems like as each new younger generation comes of age, there is increasingly less reverence for the old, for its excellence, for its originality, and therefore it becomes extinct or at least very hard to find.
BB –
Well, I wonder no more.
Dead People Server, LOL. I like the way they have those blocks beside the names that say DEAD.
My take is that it was harder to be famous back in the good old days.
That, or simply higher risk.
January 8th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
I had not realized that several had gone. Looks to me like April was a particularly BAD month. Thanks for the link.
January 9th, 2008 at 3:17 am
Ken –
April was definitely not a good month to be a celebrity.
What gets me is that with so many of them dying in the course of a year, every year, we haven’t yet run out of celebrities.