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What do you think could be the reason why so many Celebrities passed away this year |
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After much consideration and a lot of investigating, I've concluded that there is one thing, just ONE thing that is consistent with all these celebrity deaths last year.
They stopped breathing. Now if we can find out who did that, then weve got a conspiracy theory right there. |
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I was thinking before why is it that all these singers die young Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, Whitney, David Bowie, Prince, George Michael, to name but a few. I know drugs and drink are involved with some of them but it's still tragic or whatever word you want to use.
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Drugs weren't involved in just some of those you listed.... was all!
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Radio waves. All ( or nearly all) of these well known faces were singers, on TV, the radio and in recording studios using headphones and microphones for hours throughout their lives, all of which work by radio waves. As kids we were taught not to stand under pylons or use mobile phone for long periods of time due to the dangers of radiation from the waves. Nowadays their impossible to escape, everything works on them so more radio waves means more damaging amounts of radiation which means more deaths, simple. My dad has said this for years and I reckon he's right. He also said nobody would query it or look into it as it would kick up a sh!tstorm and I reckon he's right about that too.
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Yes it can. It really can.
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It is quite simply down to numbers.
In the fifties the key celebs were movie stars. As movies were only 20/30 years old there were only a few dozen really well known ones. And most were not that old as yet as there had not been time. Sports stars were only well known in their field as there was no mass public awareness of multiple sports given the lower profile. And radio had a few stars but who even knows today what cast members of the Archers look like to treat them as celebs? Let alone in those days when they were not getting exposure on reality shows. There was no real TV yet so no TV stars let alone any old enough to die. Oh and the population of the world was several factors lower than it is today so there were less people out of which celebs could emerge so less celebs by way of statistics. Today all these things have changed out of all recognition so there are inevitably far more people that are known daily to the general population. And so get noticed when they die. |
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No celebrities have died this year well that we know of
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Him out of Mash died on New Years Day,
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The celebrity market is now so saturated that it's becoming increasingly difficult to stand out and make an impact, and careers in the showbiz (or at least in the public limelight) are probably, on average, a lot shorter lived so it's a lot harder to become a 'legend' nowadays. And the ones we have are approaching their life expectancy. Didn't help to live the lifestyle back in the 70's and 80's either.
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I think the majority of them were very old, so no big suprise
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It cant be just a coincidence that so many Celebrities passed away this year. And these people are the greats in acting and music. There has never been a year like this before. Why was this year the one year where so many greats passed away
And instead of people dismissing their superstitious thoughts and reminding themselves that we don't really put much stock in mumbo-jumbo these days, many of them allowed themselves to believe in "the curse of 2016" in some sense, as though each subsequent death somehow gave credence to the notion, rather than them being completely unrelated. How many celebrities died in 2016, and how many died in 2015, 2014 or 2013, etc.? About the same, I expect. |
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I think the majority of them were very old, so no big suprise
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Him out of Mash died on New Years Day,
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Take these people who have all signed off as a cross-section of society and forget they are celebrities and you get three distinct "camps"
1. Those who were older than the average life expectancy - ie Ronnie Corbett, Harper Lee, the bloke who wrote Watership Down, Leonard Cohen, Nancy Reagan, Muhammad Ali, George Martin, Liz Smith, Jimmy Young - nothing unusual there. Then those getting close - ie Terry Wogan. 2. The younger ones (Prince, George Michael, Pete Burns, Carrie Fisher even) - who abused their bodies with substances, sex and booze and led wild lifestyles - going to take its toll in the same way as the characters you see on Jeremy Kyle or drunk on the streets. 3. Those who died before their time - Victoria Wood, Alan Rickman, David Bowie - yes, your 60s is too young to go - well, this happens. People get cancer and other illnesses in their 40s, 50s and 60s and some die of it - nothing unusual here either. Though it's sad. It's not spooky - it's easily explainable. |
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It cant be just a coincidence that so many Celebrities passed away this year.
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And no verdict yet on George Michael, though he obviously has a troublesome history with drugs.
He slipped on a bar of chocolate. Just a careless Whisper. Coat please!! |
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I was thinking before why is it that all these singers die young Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, Whitney, David Bowie, Prince, George Michael, to name but a few. I know drugs and drink are involved with some of them but it's still tragic or whatever word you want to use.
Being in the public eye is stressful & not all its cracked up to be. Many spend more on rehab and therapies than others earn in years, but all the money in the world wont prevent them dying younger if they had made the wrong lifestyle choices during their lifetimes. There are those who die of natural causes & lots who die due to self inflicted causes. If clever Joe Blogs with a sad background, up the street is a crack addict, everyone thinks he deserves everything that comes to him. Why does everyone have sympathy for a crack addict that may also have been able to afford the very best of treatments, just because they appeared on their screens.? |
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Probably because every other person seems to be a celebrity these days. I predict that it will escalate enormously in the next few years.
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we are now in the 3rd day of 2017 and not one decent proper famous death, has the curse ended ?
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Probably because every other person seems to be a celebrity these days. I predict that it will escalate enormously in the next few years.
Once we've all had our 15 minutes of fame they'll be dropping like flies. And if the BBC continue to insist on broadcasting every obituary they'll have to give them their own channel.
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Take these people who have all signed off as a cross-section of society and forget they are celebrities and you get three distinct "camps"
1. Those who were older than the average life expectancy - ie Ronnie Corbett, Harper Lee, the bloke who wrote Watership Down, Leonard Cohen, Nancy Reagan, Muhammad Ali, George Martin, Liz Smith, Jimmy Young - nothing unusual there. Then those getting close - ie Terry Wogan. 2. The younger ones (Prince, George Michael, Pete Burns, Carrie Fisher even) - who abused their bodies with substances, sex and booze and led wild lifestyles - going to take its toll in the same way as the characters you see on Jeremy Kyle or drunk on the streets. 3. Those who died before their time - Victoria Wood, Alan Rickman, David Bowie - yes, your 60s is too young to go - well, this happens. People get cancer and other illnesses in their 40s, 50s and 60s and some die of it - nothing unusual here either. Though it's sad. It's not spooky - it's easily explainable. |
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But can you explain the amount of them passing away well we have to say last year. It waa very unusual the amount of well known celebrities, legends and greats in acting and music that have passed away. These were not the just ordinary celebrities. They were A list who were great at what they did
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Good point.
Once we've all had our 15 minutes of fame they'll be dropping like flies. And if the BBC continue to insist on broadcasting every obituary they'll have to give them their own channel.
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in 2070 we will be having all the reality stars from today dropping dead, shame I won't be alive, that's going to be a great year
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If you cross your fingers some of them might die young.
![]() ![]() Gemma I used as an example, though it does seem quite likely
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What is the amount, exactly?
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