For me it was Cheater Bennington. Linkin Park music helped me through some hard times and I know some of the more impactful lyrics came from him and what he experienced.
Knowing he couldn’t take it anymore definitely hit Me hard particularly as someone I looked up to from young age …
Who was yours ?
Stalin
For some reason Heath Ledger. I loved the movie A Knights Tale as a kid. Watched it many times.
I think it was the first real celebrity death that I conciously experienced.
Same here. I loved A Knight’s Tale and 10 Things I Hate About You so much and I watched it many times a as kid. My then sister in law told me about the news and I didn’t believe her until I heard the news on the radio.
Chris Cornell, he always seemed like a classy and cool if somewhat aloof guy, extremely talented vocalist.
It’s extra unsettling when a 50+ year old commits suicide. This was someone who had a thriving career, loved by millions, had a family and kids. It just shows that you have to take care of your mental health. It’s not going to magically get better with age.
Jerry Garcia
David Bowie
Douglas Adams.
That was the first time it really hit home to me how much it hurts to lose real talent from this world.
Yes! His early death was tragic.
We could have had several more Dirk Gently mysteries, and the Guide Trilogy could have been even more inaccurately counted, by now. RIP Adams.
You might want to edit Chester
why? he knows what he did. we’ll never forget that show in '03
I dont know why, but Sean Lock, a U.K. stand-up comedian who was the backbone of a couple of U.K. panel shows. He never spoke about his illness, but lost a lot of weight and then suddenly gone. I still watch and laugh out loud from the many, many laugh out loud moments of his career.
Definetly Chester Bennington. Linking park inspired me to be a muscisian, Chester inspired me to become a singer. His passing was really hard on me. I really gave up on linking park after the minutes to midnight album, since I see it as the last album where they were honest to their roots and still not too experimental. But after many years I was talking to my wife, and we agree that next time they played in our country, we would see them nomatter what. I shit you not, the next day we saw on the news he was dead. It was almost like we knew it was about time to go watch a show since they wouldn’t be around for long. Anyways, I have massive respect for Chester as a guy who delt with my own mental sickness and also have had thoughts of sucide and so on. Chester and linkin park helped me through a lot of tough times. I wish his family all the best.
Anthony Bourdain
Grant Imahara, first person I had a parasocial relationship who died. It was also such a sudden and tragic death.
Robin Williams, on my birthday. Great guy, a gamer, and knew his way around computers. It might not have hit as hard if it hadn’t been my birthday.
Margaret Thatcher.
What a happy fucking day.
Had me in the first half…
I don’t see him on here, but Trevor Moore hit me super hard. I grew up watching WKUK, and was a big fan. He was only a couple years older than me, and what really resonated with me was that he had a son the same age as mine. It just got me thinking about my own mortality and what grief I would put my wife and son through if I’d passed away, and really put me in a dark place for a while. R.I.P. Trevor.
THIS. came here to post this. R.I.P to a real local sexpot
WKUK was making a comeback during COVID with lots of small videos and I really enjoyed them.
Yeah, and I was watching them starting to get back into them and the news hit. Super sad.
Bourdain and Chester. Irwin a close 3rd.
Leonard Nimoy. Grew up with a lot of Star Trek. Both him and Keanu Reeves helped me understand that it’s entirely fine to be introverted.
As I understood it, Nimoy’s death was from lung problems that developed as a result of his smoking habit - even though he had quit smoking many years prior that. It was the catalyst I needed to finally say, “I can’t wait anymore, time may already be up. I need to quit smoking now.” And that was when I finally did quit smoking and make it stick.
