Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

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Def an Edinburgh thing at least. Dead keen. Deid annoying. Dead tired.

Minister of the Pillow (fionnland), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:57 (seven years ago)

'Dead wrong' is probably nationwide.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:04 (seven years ago)

Shinobu Hashimoto, writer of many Japanese film classics

https://variety.com/2018/film/asia/shinobu-hashimoto-scriptwriter-akira-kurosawa-dies-dead-at-100-1202879323/

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:13 (seven years ago)

fuck me, that is some classic stuff he has had a hand on there. RIP.

omar little, Friday, 20 July 2018 15:27 (seven years ago)

for the next 25 minutes it's Schrödinger's Prince

StanM, Friday, 20 July 2018 15:38 (seven years ago)

goodnight racist prince

I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:49 (seven years ago)

Adrian Cronauer, whose stint as a Vietnam DJ very loosely inspired a Robin Williams/Barry Levinson hit

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44897634

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:55 (seven years ago)

RIP. It must be odd to have outlive the person who played you in your biopic.

Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Friday, 20 July 2018 16:00 (seven years ago)

so the royal bucket's status remains unkicked?

StanM, Friday, 20 July 2018 16:07 (seven years ago)

Keep the Prince alive.

Chase Knobbe? Have you Courtney Cox? (Tom D.), Friday, 20 July 2018 16:21 (seven years ago)

jonathan gold

na (NA), Sunday, 22 July 2018 01:19 (seven years ago)

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-fo-jonathan-gold-obit-20180721-story.html

na (NA), Sunday, 22 July 2018 01:20 (seven years ago)

Oh shit.

... (Eazy), Sunday, 22 July 2018 01:28 (seven years ago)

Goddammit.

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 July 2018 01:40 (seven years ago)

This is totally fucked....

Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 22 July 2018 02:05 (seven years ago)

cancer grrrr

curmudgeon, Monday, 23 July 2018 14:54 (seven years ago)

Is there a JGold appreciation thread?

I posted here...
things Billy Corgan said to Kim Thayil in Australia in 1994 poll

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 23 July 2018 16:08 (seven years ago)

Bill Loud, patriarch of the Loud family, pioneers in reality TV (An American Family). Was 97.

Josefa, Saturday, 28 July 2018 04:27 (seven years ago)

Lucy Birley - model and former wife of Bryan Ferry.

The Vogue obituary is the one to read https://www.vogue.com/article/lucy-birley-obituary

The Times obituary today is unexepectedly bad and exploitative.

Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 28 July 2018 09:45 (seven years ago)

wow yeah that Vogue obit is beautiful <3

rip Lucy ;_;

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 July 2018 15:54 (seven years ago)

Ron Dellums, 13-term liberal leader in the House (was called a "Watusi from Berkeley" by that ass Ed Koch)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ronald-dellums-who-entered-congress-a-firebrand-and-left-a-statesman-dies-at-82/2018/07/30/cbc41d76-941c-11e8-810c-5fa705927d54_story.html

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 July 2018 18:35 (seven years ago)

I used to like his son Erik as an actor - he played a drug dealer on Homicide: Life on the Street and a medical examiner on The Wire.

grawlix (unperson), Monday, 30 July 2018 18:47 (seven years ago)

Bernard Hepton

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jul/30/bernard-hepton-obituary

Alba, Monday, 30 July 2018 19:12 (seven years ago)

Awww, so good in TTSS.

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 30 July 2018 19:29 (seven years ago)

Tomasz Stańko, Polish jazz trumpeter

the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, 30 July 2018 21:04 (seven years ago)

Sam Mehran, musician, 30.

flappy bird, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 04:28 (seven years ago)

*31

flappy bird, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 04:29 (seven years ago)

Joseph Maus, 30.

flappy bird, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 04:30 (seven years ago)

Last month, Esther Judith Singer, “Chichita,” translator and wife of Italo Calvino. http://www.lastampa.it/2018/06/23/cultura/e-morta-esther-judith-singer-la-moglie-di-italo-calvino-B6liQFz7YJRdR3PwAFldRM/pagina.html

3-Way Tie (For James Last) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 19:02 (seven years ago)

Actress Mary Carlisle: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mary-carlisle-dead-bing-crosby-star-delightful-musicals-was-104-1085748

Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Thursday, 2 August 2018 01:06 (seven years ago)

Fakir Musafar, body modifier who came to international prominence following his inclusion in Modern Primitives by Re/Search books.

(Can't find an actual obit but being discussed on twitter and confirmed)

Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Thursday, 2 August 2018 05:27 (seven years ago)

Zombie Boy

adam the (abanana), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:48 (seven years ago)

The kid who said “I like turtles”!?

devops mom (silby), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:55 (seven years ago)

I thought Mustafar had died in the late '90s or early 2000s. I guess I was confusing him with Bob Flanagan (who died in 1996).

grawlix (unperson), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:56 (seven years ago)

Sometimes it feels like a run of deaths has a theme.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 3 August 2018 21:26 (seven years ago)

Barry Chuckle
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/05/barry-chuckle-comedy-duo-the-chuckle-brothers-dies

Madchen, Sunday, 5 August 2018 07:53 (seven years ago)

the end of an era...

calzino, Sunday, 5 August 2018 07:58 (seven years ago)

The funeral will be hilarious

the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 August 2018 08:09 (seven years ago)

Yes, I’m not sure whether it would be inappropriate for the pallbearers to do ‘to me, to you’ or inappropriate for them not to.

Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 5 August 2018 08:17 (seven years ago)

So the character on The Mary Tyler Moore Show was based on this guy?

Suspicious Hiveminds (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 August 2018 08:18 (seven years ago)

RIP Barry

Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Sunday, 5 August 2018 10:43 (seven years ago)

;_;

Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 August 2018 11:23 (seven years ago)

at least if one of Cannon or Ball dies, then they can hook up with t'other Chuckle Brother now!

calzino, Sunday, 5 August 2018 11:40 (seven years ago)

It would have to be Tommy, I can't see a Bobby & Barry pairing working tbh.

Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 August 2018 11:44 (seven years ago)

New catchprase: "Rock on, to me"

StanM, Sunday, 5 August 2018 13:34 (seven years ago)

Aw, that makes me kind of sad. Although watching the chuckle brothers as an adult was terrible: but I liked it in the day.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 5 August 2018 13:54 (seven years ago)

Charlotte Rae at 92.

Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Monday, 6 August 2018 05:50 (seven years ago)

the day news broke about a facts of life reboot

Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 6 August 2018 08:14 (seven years ago)

Okay this hit me a little hard.

RIP IN PEACE ALL OF MY CAST MATES. I MISS YOU ALL. pic.twitter.com/tS52TfryKo

— Todd Bridges (@ToddBridges) August 6, 2018

Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 August 2018 13:41 (seven years ago)

Joel Robuchon, world's most Michelin starred chef.

calzino, Monday, 6 August 2018 13:51 (seven years ago)


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