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Old 21-04-2016, 18:19
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Shocking number of celebrity deaths - many before their time.

Just reeling from Victoria Wood's untimely demise and now we have Prince - from what was at first described as a cold!!!
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Old 21-04-2016, 18:58
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its awful , you get of lots of celeb deaths every year of course but its getting ridiculous. its several every day almost.
if i was a celeb especially one who is ill or old id be very worried , this year is going be remembered for taking many so young.
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Old 21-04-2016, 19:15
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Its crazy, better get down the bookies and get a few bets on.
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Old 21-04-2016, 19:21
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David Gest has managed to die twice!
Yes that was just bizarre and ultimately tragic.
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Old 21-04-2016, 19:29
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That's it this is almost supernatural, this year is freaking me out. I am thinking it could be Bruce Forsythe next, or Joan Collins....or Angela Lansbury??
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Old 21-04-2016, 19:30
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That's it this is almost supernatural, this year is freaking me out. I am thinking it could be Bruce Forsythe next, or Joan Collins....or Angela Lansbury??
Unfortunitely brucie is rather frail at the moment
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Old 21-04-2016, 19:50
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To be fair, there is definitely an element of the golden generation of showbiz starting to reach a certain age. Several of this year's big losses such as Terry Wogan and Ronnie Corbett are explained by this phenomenon.

It's also worth pointing out that partly for this reason, 2015 was also fairly bad year where we lost several huge names - Christopher Lee, Cilla Black, Leonard Nimoy for starters.

But the thing that stands out about this year is that most of the really big losses shouldnt have happened just yet - Prince was only 57 and Bowie, Alan Rickman and Victoria Wood were in their 60s, hardly an age to die these days. They are entirely unexpected and I think what is really shocking this year is just how unexpected these deaths are rather than the volume of them.
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Old 21-04-2016, 19:50
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Yep, another true big loss with Prince today. This is getting ridiculous. Gotta be Brucie next surely?
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Old 21-04-2016, 19:50
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Unfortunitely brucie is rather frail at the moment
Yeah, he must be crapping.
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Old 21-04-2016, 20:09
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Seems overlooked but the PG Tips chimp has also died.
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Old 21-04-2016, 20:24
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Seems overlooked but the PG Tips chimp has also died.
he must have been getting on a bit as well
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Old 21-04-2016, 23:10
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2016 The Year of The Celebrity RIP... Like the biggest reality show in the world.
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Old 21-04-2016, 23:10
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Just to cheer things up Doris Day was 94 the other week and Kirk Douglas will be 100 in December. Other than the Queen Mother how many celebs have made it to 100?
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Old 22-04-2016, 01:29
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That's it this is almost supernatural, this year is freaking me out.
These are the end times, things are only going to get much worse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1lFYO5zE-c
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Old 22-04-2016, 01:40
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Just to cheer things up Doris Day was 94 the other week and Kirk Douglas will be 100 in December. Other than the Queen Mother how many celebs have made it to 100?
Many more than you might realise. I recall comedian George Burns passing away just a few weeks after he made 100 back in 1996. Bob Hope made 100 in 2003 and then passed weeks afterwards. Former PM Harold Wilson's wife was 100 in January and still around. Olivia de Havilland will soon be 100, on 1st July and Vera Lynn is very close now, and was 99 last month.
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Old 22-04-2016, 02:03
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I thought Morrissey wasn't too well as well.
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Old 22-04-2016, 08:12
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Ken Dodd, Rolf Harris, Bruce Forsyth and Prince Philip. If at least one of them's not snuffed it by year's end, I'll be amazed.
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Old 22-04-2016, 08:31
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Percy Sledge now!
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Old 22-04-2016, 09:01
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Percy Sledge died in April 2015 - but for some reason, news of his death (a year ago) has been been sweeping across Facebook, yesterday and today, and people keep sharing the news like it's just happened

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Sledge
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Old 22-04-2016, 09:11
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Got overshadowed a bit by Victoria Wood, but David Swift ('Drop the Dead Donkey', and brother of 'Keeping Up Appearances'' Clive) has also gone: http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2016/0...davenport_dies
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Old 22-04-2016, 09:29
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For as long as i can remember, deaths of people in the public eye have happened pretty regularly. Even when I was young several decades ago, if you listened to the Radio 4 news it would not be at all unusual to hear that some musician, artist, etc had died. The difference is that as a young person I had never heard of most of them, and you might combine that with it being a different sort of society where most people didn't react to the death of someone such as a famous concert pianist they might have known of but never actually met in the same way as they would to the passing of a relative or close friend.

Most of us who think there are a lot of famous people dying are now probably of an age where we have known of these people for several decades and they - like us - have just got to the point where some people do die. Most of us in our 50s or upwards are probably aware of school friends who have died in the past few years, so to say that someone aged 57 or 62 has died 'too young' and it's a huge shock- well, yes of-course that's right, but sadly it has always been the case that some do.

I don't think it is in any way logical to 'blame' 2016 as if this is some sort of curse based around the year. It is likely to go on long after this year is itself gone.
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Old 22-04-2016, 10:54
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Seems overlooked but the PG Tips chimp has also died.
No, the chimp has its own thread
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Old 22-04-2016, 11:00
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Too many shocking deaths this year, and we are only 4 months in!
Please make it stop?
You do realise that the average daily global death rate is 200,000 deaths a day. In fact, by the time you read this, about 900 people have died (and 1500 born!) since you started reading this post.
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Old 22-04-2016, 11:08
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For as long as i can remember, deaths of people in the public eye have happened pretty regularly. Even when I was young several decades ago, if you listened to the Radio 4 news it would not be at all unusual to hear that some musician, artist, etc had died. The difference is that as a young person I had never heard of most of them, and you might combine that with it being a different sort of society where most people didn't react to the death of someone such as a famous concert pianist they might have known of but never actually met in the same way as they would to the passing of a relative or close friend.

Most of us who think there are a lot of famous people dying are now probably of an age where we have known of these people for several decades and they - like us - have just got to the point where some people do die. Most of us in our 50s or upwards are probably aware of school friends who have died in the past few years, so to say that someone aged 57 or 62 has died 'too young' and it's a huge shock- well, yes of-course that's right, but sadly it has always been the case that some do.

I don't think it is in any way logical to 'blame' 2016 as if this is some sort of curse based around the year. It is likely to go on long after this year is itself gone.
This is an interesting read which does confirm that more celebrities have passed away in 2016 than usual:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36108133

They reference much of what has been cited on this thread as reasoning, namely the boom in TV and music creating more celebrities, along with the advent of social media making people more famous (and no doubt also making people more aware of celebrity deaths).

They also predict it's going to carry on. Quite sad really, it's never nice to hear of someone beloved or popular dying and I think for people who grew up in the 60s/70s/80s and even 90s the people who have passed recently are very much icons and heroes to many of us, which makes it even sadder.
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Old 22-04-2016, 11:09
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Ken Dodd, Rolf Harris, Bruce Forsyth and Prince Philip. If at least one of them's not snuffed it by year's end, I'll be amazed.
Don't worry about Prince Philip. He has a good 10 years still left in him yet.
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