Catch-all R.I.P. thrad

[Carlie]

Damn.

 

[Nanaki Skywalker]

I also find it funny that natural causes succeeded where the CIA did not. How many times did our government try to assassinate this guy? I hear it was over 600.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Althought it IS in the nature of things that natural causes would have done for him eventually....

 

[Flintlock]

Brazil Chapecoense football team in Colombia plane crash

85 people on the plane, only six confirmed survivors so far. Just awful.

 

[Nanaki Skywalker]

Jim Delligatti, inventor of the Big Mac, at 98

 

[Nanaki Skywalker]

Former NFL running back Joe McKnight at 28.

 

[Ghost X]

Andrew Sachs of Fawlty Towers fame died yesterday-ish.

 

[Animexcel]

Alice Drummond who played the librarian in Ghostbusters died 11/30.

 

[Ghost X]

Peter Vaughan, recently of Game of Thrones fame, dies at age 93.

 

[Nanaki Skywalker]

This one just broke.

John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth and former US Senator, at age 95.

 

[lithiumkatana17]

This one hits home for me, because John Glenn was a colonel in the Marine Corps, one that we'd all heard stories about when us youngin's first came in.

I have to post this, because it's just just so motivating to listen to.

This a Gunnery Sergeant standing before his troops in Marjeh, Afghanistan, getting them fired up before doing an operation. He paraphrases Glenn's infamous 'I have held a job!' speech that he gave to Howard Metzenbaum when running for senator.

 

[Nanaki Skywalker]

Come to think of it, my dad went to grade school at a school named after John Glenn. And this was shortly after his first space mission.

Additionally, I have to say one thing.

Fuck December 8th! In addition to losing John Glenn this year, this date also saw the deaths of John Lennon (1980) and Dimebag Darrell (2004)!

 

[Ghost X]

Greg Lake, of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer fame dies, age 69

 

[Animexcel]

Alan Thicke passed away from a heart attack at 69. Wow, he just tweeted like 5 hours ago :o

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/13/us/alan-thicke-dead/

 

[Channy]

GAWD DAMN IT 2016 WHY YOU GOTTA SHIT ON US SO BAD

 

[Kionae]

GAWD DAMN IT 2016 WHY YOU GOTTA SHIT ON US SO BAD

And just think... there are still 18 days of 2016 left.

 

[Nanaki Skywalker]

And sadly, you can add one more to the list.

Craig Sager, longtime NBA sideline reporter for TNT, has lost his battle with leukemia at the age of 65.

Seriously...fuck 2016! And we lost Stuart Scott in January of last year, if I remember correctly. I can only be happy that Chris Mortensen is still fighting his battle with cancer. And fuck cancer, too!

Sager is best remembered for his colorful suits he wore during Nationally televised games.

 

[Ghost X]

Zsa Zsa Gabor, 99, heart attack.

 

[lithiumkatana17]

Damn, 2016 just has to keep squeezing out more.

 

[Cthulhu]

So did 2015

 

[RedFFWolf]

George Michael

Celebrated people die every year, but the personification of 2016 as some vindictive celebrity-slaughterer appears to have solidified its basis by now.

 

[jazzflower92]

George Michael

Celebrated people die every year, but the personification of 2016 as some vindictive celebrity-slaughterer appears to have solidified its basis by now.

Another one bites the dust.

 

[AvecAloes]

Fuck this yeeeeear

 

[Nanaki Skywalker]

Perhaps most shocking about 2016's reputation of rampant celebrity deaths is the one name we have not heard this year (or even in this thread, for that matter); Keith Richards. How this guy is still alive, despite the massive amount of drugs he's done in his life, is beyond me.

 

[Animexcel]

DAMMIT!! Carrie Fisher is gone ;_;

http://people.com/movies/carrie-fisher-dies/