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She is one with the force now. My condolences for the family.

Very sad. Nice lady.
RIP CF

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Heard she was hospitalized yesterday, but didn't expect her to die. That's really sad.

Unfortunately, it was scary once it was said she stopped breathing for 15 mins. Even when her brother said "stable"...best we could do was cross our fingers and hope. RIP, Carrie. You have touched the life of BILLIONS, as a princess of strength. You have been the crush of many a nerd, and helped bring joy to so many. May the Force be with you. Always.

When there had been no news since the initial news, I was pretty sure we were just waiting for the worst.

Sucks, sucks real bad. I hope she finds peace now.

:(

Sad face, There goes another one of our favorite actors...

God damnit "Hey 2017! how about you take the famous scumbags and aholes for a change, instead of taking the good, talented and inspiring ones like 2016"

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
F off 2016, you're almost over

Unfortunately, 2017 is waiting on the doorstep, sharpening its scythe. It's sad, but those of us in our 30s and 40s will be watching our childhood icons die in the coming years.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
F off 2016, you're almost over

Unfortunately, 2017 is waiting on the doorstep, sharpening its scythe. It's sad, but those of us in our 30s and 40s will be watching our childhood icons die in the coming years.

Yeah, sucks.

Browsing the web about Carrie Fisher and came across this version of Leia's theme https://youtu.be/fdlc_Fok4dM Used to think it sounded magical and inspiring. Now it just sounds really sad

Probably late finding out, but I just read on Facebook about Carrie Fisher. As a huge Star Wars fan, I'm floored. 2016's been killing a lot of good celebrities, but it saved the worst for last by killing one of my (and many many others') favorite actresses. R.I.P. Carrie, may the Force be with you and your family always.

I not only loved her in the movies, but loved watching the interviews with her, her irreverence and wit. RIP.


And, lest we forget, it wasn't just in SW that she shone...

"You contemptible pig! I remained celibate for you. I stood at the back of a cathedral, waiting, in celibacy, for you, with three hundred friends and relatives in attendance. My uncle hired the best Romanian caterers in the state. To obtain the seven limousines for the wedding party, my father used up his last favor with Mad Pete Trullo. So for me, for my mother, my grandmother, my father, my uncle, and for the common good, I must now kill you, and your brother. "

Hey, Mr. Reaper, yeah you, I'm talkin' to you; nah you don't play dumb, you get over here, Imma gonna tell you somethin'.

You yanked the wrong chain, you got the wrong kid; you could do better than that, why don't you do something useful for once instead of taking talented, funny, and well-loved people?

You know there's a whole world full of jerks, losers, and d-bags that we'd all do a lot better without. You could start with the Kardashians, and maybe take Miley Cyrus or Justin Bieber as a follow up. Or how about Kanye; he's pretty useless and annoying.

So did you just wake up one morning and decide, "hmm, 2016 is the year I'm going to be a jerk to everyone and snatched up a lot of really cool people"; or did you just think it would be funny?

Yeah, I know, you're just doing your job, but you're doing it a bit too well don't you think? I mean, look, you could just misplace the clipboard or happen to lose your to-do list, it happens sometimes.

Sure I suppose you get the ones we love and care for, you wouldn't be doing your job if you didn't, so I suppose that the jerks, and the losers would just be too easy, no one would miss them or care whether they were here or not.

So you're helping us to realize that we should be as best people as we can? Well that's a bit roundabout isn't it? Well I mean, look... ...what? Well I suppose that it is better to be fondly remembered rather than reviled and forgotten, "some people spread joy wherever they go and others spread joy whenever they go"? Yeah I've heard that. So you're saying we have a choice in how best to live? Not so much the time we have but how we use it?

Heh, I suppose you're right, mortality does have it purpose. Ironic that mortality and morality are so similar, maybe it's a lot closer than we realize, maybe we can learn something before we shuffle off this mortal coil and leave things better than how we found them.

Well, Mr. Reaper sorry for taking so much of your time, you certainly are a busy fellow.

Still don't like what you do, but it makes a bit more sense now.

 ZergSmasher wrote:
but it saved the worst for last

Careful now...

 Azreal13 wrote:

 ZergSmasher wrote:
but it saved the worst for last

Careful now...

And why? Its not like most of the world knew these persons personaly, I fail to see how its any worse or more worth weeping about than when a regular person dies? And beside. Death is saving the best for last

 Tannhauser42 wrote:

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
F off 2016, you're almost over

Unfortunately, 2017 is waiting on the doorstep, sharpening its scythe. It's sad, but those of us in our 30s and 40s will be watching our childhood icons die in the coming years.

While this is true, it feels like 2016 has gone out of its way to take many young and unique persons. David Bowie and Prince were such unique icons, and Carrie Fisher was as well. And they were all young. Carrie Fisher just turned 60, which is younger than my mother. David Bowie and Alan Rickman were 69, Prince was 57! These are not Zsa Zsa Gabor living to 99 years old!

2016 isn't done yet.



Ricky Harris died yesterday. He was 54:




http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2016/12/27/comedian-ricky-harris-from-everybody-hates-chris-dies/95867186/




Also, Vera Rubin, who pioneered work on dark matter died. Se was 88:


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/vera-rubin-who-did-pioneering-work-on-dark-matter-dies/ar-BBxBtCi?OCID=ansmsnnews11

The only ray of light is that regression to the mean probably will cause 2017 to carry off a higher than usual proportion of arseholes and gak-bags.


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Wow! I broke the swear filter again!!

 Tannhauser42 wrote:

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
F off 2016, you're almost over

Unfortunately, 2017 is waiting on the doorstep, sharpening its scythe. It's sad, but those of us in our 30s and 40s will be watching our childhood icons die in the coming years.

I was thinking the same. 10 years ago when famous people I barely knew died I was "who was that?" Now it's the time of the people that accompanied and shaped my childhood.

M.

 jhe90 wrote:
Damn you 2016

Carrie Fisher. Breaking on sky.

*sigh*

That fething sucks.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
She is one with the force now. My condolences for the family.

Here's a nice one.

Choosing Trump really pissed of some gods, RIP Princess Leia :(

Award winning character actor George S. Irving, who co-starred in 1973's Irene with Fisher and Fisher's mother Debbie Reynolds, dies at age 94



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4069404/Carrie-Fisher-s-star-George-S-Irving-1973-s-Irene-dies-day-does-94.html




He was a World War II veteran, and actor best known for his Broadway work, and his television role as the loudmouthed Russ DeKuyper in All in the Family.

So much bad stuff has happened to me lately. The last thing i needed right now was to hear about Carrie

:(

This sucks. R.I.P Carrie Fisher and Richard Adams.

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Choosing Trump really pissed of some gods, RIP Princess Leia :(

That's a rant for another time and place, but I feel you.

This one stings hard, she was really cool and the worst thing is her mother out lived her. Parents aren't supposed to outlive their children.

Sadly, in music news Kanye West was found this evening in his hotel room...













Alive and well.

Sorry I had to!
I just enjoyed a great NPR interview of Carrie about her memoir just a week or so ago. Sucks. I really hope they've already filmed her ep:8 parts. Although they've shown the can CGI her already in Rogue 1.

They have finished her Ep:8 filming.

Gutted once again another one goes. Rip,

I've got the same feelings of grief for Carrie Fisher as I did for Robin Williams. Both had a huge impact on my childhood, and now they're both gone. And both well before their time too.