@sd-wineaux posted:Not that I agree with a hell of a lot that TOM posts, and I've certainly taken to not responding to you. But I've got to ask, what exactly about his second paragraph did you not agree with?
That I have friends.
Actor Ed Asner at 91. "Oh Mr. Grant!"
Anti Vax radio hosts:
"Marc Bernier died Saturday of COVID-19 after a three-week battle, his bereft radio station announced. He was 65.
Bernier had been afflicted three weeks earlier after hosting radio talk shows in Daytona Beach for 30 years, and after dubbing himself 'Mr. Anti-Vax.' He also said the U.S. government was 'acting like Nazis' for insisting people get the shot.
Bernier’s death was the third this month among conservative talk show hosts outspoken against the coronavirus vaccine.
He was preceded eight days earlier by Phil Valentine, a 61-year-old conservative talk radio host in Tennessee who mocked coronavirus vaccines but changed his tone after getting sick. He battled the disease for a month.
Also having a change of heart, before his stopped, was Dick Farrel, a former Newsmax commentator and all-around coronavirus-denying, vaccine-resistant right-wing radio talk show host. The South Florida radio host died of COVID-19 complications on Aug. 6, at age 65, after exhorting fans not to get the vaccine, calling the entire coronavirus crisis as scam-demic.'”
Both Farrel and Valentine urged friends and followers to get the vaccine as the disease closed in on them and said they regretted not doing it themselves.
Bernier, speaking to a guest about a week after the Pfizer jab was approved for emergency use in December, was adamantly against it, though it wasn’t clear how he felt at the end.
'Are you kidding me? Mr. Anti-Vax? Jeepers,' Bernier said in answer to the question of whether he would take the shot. 'I’m not taking it.'"
Good to see that natural selection still works.
TOM, so why exactly do you want those people to rest in peace?
@steve8 posted:TOM, so why exactly do you want those people to rest in peace?
I don't believe in the concept of resting in peace. You're dead, buried and gone. So I see this thread as being a place to mention noteworthy deaths. Or in this case. funny ones.
Paul-Paul Belmondo at age 88. good actor "Is Paris Burning"
Actor Michael K. Williams (The Wire, Boardwalk Empire) at 54.
One of the major reasons "The Wire" is the best drama series of all time.
"Jean-Pierre Adams, an ex-footballer who fell into a coma in 1982 following a botched knee operation, has died at the age of 73, his former clubs Nimes Olympique, Paris Saint-Germain and Nice said."
39 years in a coma!
@The Old Man posted:"Jean-Pierre Adams, an ex-footballer who fell into a coma in 1982 following a botched knee operation, has died at the age of 73, his former clubs Nimes Olympique, Paris Saint-Germain and Nice said."
39 years in a coma!
He missed out on a lot of human fuckery.
@billhike posted:He missed out on a lot of human fuckery.
Plus, four decades with his wife, his time with his two children, future grandchildren, travel, friendships and enjoying all his years on this journey called life provides us all. Not to mention his wife who refused to not take care of him and his children not having their father.
@wine+art posted:Not to mention his wife who refused to not take care of him...
This is kind of a double negative and I don't know the back story. Did she refuse to help him or refuse to leave him?
@The Old Man posted:This is kind of a double negative and I don't know the back story. Did she refuse to help him or refuse to leave him?
No, she refused euthanasia and tended to his needs.
@wine+art posted:Plus, four decades with his wife, his time with his two children, future grandchildren, travel, friendships and enjoying all his years on this journey called life provides us all. Not to mention his wife who refused to not take care of him and his children not having their father.
Sobering point. No disrespect meant.
@billhike posted:Sobering point. No disrespect meant.
Understood.
All those who died 20 years ago today.
Comedian Norm Macdonald at 61.
@brucehayes posted:Comedian Norm Macdonald at 61.
Time to watch some SNL Celebrity Jeopardys I guess
@brucehayes posted:Comedian Norm Macdonald at 61.
Do you have an obituary app with alerts set? 
@billhike posted:Do you have an obituary app with alerts set?
I just spend a lot of time on Twitter.
George "Commander Cody" Frayne, at 77.
Forever lost in the ozone.
Two from the music world.
Pat Fish (aka The Jazz Butcher), 64
Paddy Moloney (leader/founder of The Chieftains), 83
Bond, James Bond
The Norwegian Blue.
Colin Powell from Covid complications. Fully vaccinated too. Really sad.
Indeed.
@csm posted:Colin Powell from Covid complications. Fully vaccinated too. Really sad.
Partly on the unvaccinated.
He apparently had multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells that suppresses the body's immune system. So, although fully vaccinated, he was in a high risk category, at greater risk of harm from Covid.
@Rothko posted:He apparently had multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells that suppresses the body's immune system. So, although fully vaccinated, he was in a high risk category, at greater risk of harm from Covid.
Yeah, the initial stories all just said covid or associations with covid, but I would imagine that the cancer made it such that even the vaccine wasn't enough to save him.
"Jay Black, Jay and the Americans Singer, Dead at 82"
Mort Sahl at 94
Dean Stockwell. To get an idea of how long he's been around he was Nick Charles Jr. in Song of the Thin Man.
Blue Origin "astronaut" Glen de Vries dies in plane crash. He flew with William Shatner a month ago.
Stephen Sondheim. 91
Lee Elder.
Sir Frank Williams