Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

the prodigy instagram account says "our brother Keith took his own life over the weekend"

:(

This is so incredibly sad.

luke perry, 52

oof...that is insane to me

He had a massive stroke three days ago, so I'm less shocked by that one.

yeah the stroke ok but...wow

damn

It's still pretty terrible, don't get me wrong.

https://frinkiac.com/video/S04E22/0Pka44ZkOT1y7PjeAx-QPmhqEYM=.gif

Oof, RIP X 2. Please take care of yourselves today, people who came to fame in the '90s.

farewell, Byron-quoting rebel without a pause Dylan McKay.

Jfc this one def hurts. I was so happy to see him in Riverdale. Teen me is crying.

so sad ;_;

He was the best parent on Riverdale (the bar is v low given everyone is a murderer but still, love u Fred)

ah jeez, that’s rough

sara romweber, north carolina drummer with let's active, snatches of pink and her brother dexter

wrestler king kong bundy, 61

Magenta Devine, presenter, 61.

oh no!

Yeah, that's a thing. Network 7 well ahead of its time. RIP

I doubt anyone here cares, but…

Antoine Emaz, French poet, 64.
Jean Starobinski, Swiss literary critic, 98.

RIP

RIP Magenta :(

Eusebio Pedroza, featherweight world champ for 7 years

http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/26113169/hofer-pedroza-dies-pancreatic-cancer-62

Magenta was the first person whose style I knowingly tried to copy. 1980s Madchen couldn’t have chosen a cooler style icon imo.

I doubt anyone here cares, but…

I would like to very sincerely entreat you not to let this stop you (or anyone else). I don't know any of those two, but a) it is good to be prodded to research a bit outside the anglosphere, and b) the next time it could be some other relative non-celeb I actually really care about. In other words, thanks.

Happy to hear it. Both of those two are very much worth exploring btw, although I have no idea whether their works have been translated into English at all.

So sad to hear about Magenta. Madchen otm, she was cool af!

Antoine Emaz

Oh, I've read some of his stuff! RIP

Co-inventor of the handheld calculator:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/calculator-inventor-obit-1.5044286?fbclid=IwAR1NdOBRd4GuF8-vAr4ZLOVd8DXpTjNfAdz7FAGABKaFo4xvSd_xyTf_Z-4

Getting my first calculator in the mid-'70s--I think it was a desk model, not handheld--was thrilling. (And indispensable in tandem with my MacMillan baseball encyclopedia.) I think it would have cost in the neighborhood of $50-75, which would be how much in 2019 dollars? You'd buy the same calculator today at a dollar store.

Juan Corona, California serial killer, at 85.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-juan-corona-serial-killer-dead-20190304-story.html

A study in extremes today

horrific. not too far from Sacramento, either.

Carolee Schneemann

http://www.artnews.com/2019/03/06/carolee-schneemann-died-feminist-art/

billionaire diamond trader ehud arye laniado, 65 - dead from complications during penis enlargement surgery

rip not-so-big man

Carolee Schneemann

:(

RIP

The experienced diamond expert's heart attack happened when a substance was injected into his penis, Belgian media reported.

It never hurts to be reminded that specificity is the watchword when it comes to penis injections. 'A substance' could be 18 fluid ounces of tartar sauce for all you know.

tbf, injecting 18 fluid ounces of tartar sauce into your dick would definitely make it bigger, so mission accomplished imo

the thought of getting that surgery at age SIXTY-FIVE is a good reminder than other people are a total mystery

Eat the rich(‘s dicks with tartar sauce)

xp or that penis enlargement surgery is prohibitively expensive, as a diamond billionaire couldn't amass enough of a fortune to get it until he was 65

live slow, die old, leave a big-dicked corpse

Yeah, this is a move that only really makes sense to me as like a prelude to John Quiñones approaching people outside of a funeral home and asking them why they glared so long at the comically-engorged genitalia of their deceased loved one.

Inject with tartare sauce and upsize your codpiece.

Professor Mike Oliver, academic and disability activist. His recent angry rebuke towards "parasitic" disabled charities who have been mostly pusillanimous government lapdogs during austerity was so otm.

https://www.tmz.com/2019/03/08/airwolf-star-jan-michael-vincent-dead/

i literally am only aware of this guy's existence because of a Rick and Morty bit, but RIP nonetheless.

Now I can stop confusing him with Jon-Erik Hexum.

RIP. One of my earliest cinema memories was The Mechanic with him and Charles Bronson, pretty bleak stuff for an 8-year-old.

Jan-Michael Vincent -- the '80s heartthrob best known for his role on TV's "Airwolf" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.

Jan-Michael actually died back on February 10 after suffering cardiac arrest while a patient at a North Carolina hospital ... according to the death certificate. We're told no autopsy was performed and he was later cremated.

weird to be a guy who was an up-and-comer in film, and later a fairly massive TV star for a bit, then die and the news breaks a whole month later.