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Post by msdemos on Jan 27, 2020 15:53:24 GMT
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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 27, 2020 15:56:29 GMT
Phillip Seymour Hoffman
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Post by vegalyra on Jan 27, 2020 16:06:25 GMT
I wasn't alive when JFK was assassinated, but I remember being very shocked that Princess Diana died.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 27, 2020 16:23:05 GMT
Probably Diana, because unnatural causes are often far more shocking.
'Diana Dead' was a very morbid headline used by hundreds of outlets.
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Post by sjg on Jan 27, 2020 16:23:58 GMT
Other: Dimebag
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Jan 27, 2020 17:17:57 GMT
John Lennon
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jan 27, 2020 17:20:01 GMT
I don`t get shocked when people die.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Jan 27, 2020 18:33:46 GMT
So many of the choices on the list were shocking to me. My real answer is: The ones where the person was young and healthy and the death was sudden, as in not a long drawn out illness. Just about all on the list were those. And by young I mean an age where people are not known for dying. If someone is in their late 70's maybe then I start thinking it could happen. But no one dies from old age in their 40's or 50's if they're otherwise healthy. Drug overdoses not withstanding.
Some other sudden deaths were Heath Ledger and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. But maybe the one that I think about a lot to this day is River Phoenix. He was only 26. And he would have been the king of Hollywood had he lived. He would have been like Leonardo DiCaprio or Tom Cruise are today.
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Post by millar70 on Jan 27, 2020 20:52:43 GMT
I voted for John Lennon, but a good choice for shocking death that was not listed would be Phil Hartman.
Deaths like accidents (Kobe, James Dean) and drug overdoses (Belushi, Farley, River Phoenix) are awful and shocking, but none of that holds a candle to someone being murdered by another human being.
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Post by Sandman on Jan 27, 2020 22:16:08 GMT
Not sure shocked is the right word. One that saddened me the most was Brittany Murphy. Only 32.
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Post by clusium on Jan 27, 2020 23:04:42 GMT
For me, Princess Diana most of all. However, another one who shocked & saddened me was Corey Haim, but, for personal reasons: I knew him, back when I was a kid.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2020 23:14:05 GMT
Chris Cornell's suicide in 2017.
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Post by wolf359 on Jan 27, 2020 23:20:43 GMT
Kobe Bryant
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Post by ellynmacg on Jan 29, 2020 4:46:20 GMT
A little over 39 years ago, I was visiting Mexico City on a business trip. On the morning of December 9, 1980, I was sitting in the lobby of our hotel, waiting for my co-workers to come downstairs so we could go to breakfast, when a concierge walked over to me and held out a U.S. newspaper, saying, "Señorita, have you seen this?" "This" was the large-font headline reading "Beatle John Lennon Shot Dead in New York City."
At first I thought the headline was somebody's sick idea of a joke--then I read the article and realized it was real. While I continued to wait for my co-workers, two thoughts alternated in my brain: "I always said NYC would be the death of you, John," and "Now they [the Beatles, of course] will never get back together!" The rest of the day was very painful, as I had to keep focusing on the accounting-related work I had gone all that way (from L.A.) to do, while my mind kept repeating helpful things like "John Lennon is dead" and "No more Beatles, EVER"...and things were further complicated by a radio in the background, blaring out one song after another by the Beatles or by Lennon solo.
It wasn't until that evening, as I sat in my window seat aboard a homeward-bound jet that I felt free to cry as much as I wanted to...and boy, did I want to. And when I got back to L.A., I cried at least once a day for about a week.
I think I felt at that time--along with a lot of my fellow Beatlemaniacs/Baby Boomers--that a very vital part of our youth died on Dec. 8, 1980.
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Post by maxwellperfect on Jan 29, 2020 4:52:32 GMT
Selena Quintanilla
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Post by clusium on Jan 29, 2020 4:55:39 GMT
You should check out the videos I shared on the 'Celebrity News' message forum. The person doing the videos visited her grave, plus the inn, where she was shot.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 29, 2020 5:17:46 GMT
I'll add Owen Hart. That was fuct.
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Post by Morgana on Jan 29, 2020 8:23:07 GMT
Princess Diana. I remember I was on my way to work when I heard the news, and at work it was all anyone could talk about.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jan 29, 2020 21:57:58 GMT
Heath Ledger, mainly because I'd become obsessed with the guy only a month before.
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Post by Sulla on Jan 29, 2020 23:24:14 GMT
I remember the deaths of JFK, RFK and MLK. But I was pretty young, so I don't think it affected me as much.
The one that was most shocking to me was on January 28, 1986 when the Challenger broke apart at 1500 mph (at the time it was thought to have exploded). America had never lost anyone to an in-flight accident and in a few moments, the whole crew of 7 was gone on live tv. The popular high school teacher, Christa McAuliffe, chosen from 11,000 applicants, had long trained for that mission. Her children and her students were watching from school that day and her parents were in the audience at Cape Canaveral.
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