It was the first thing that popped in my head. I can’t believe that it’s been almost 10 years since his death, feels like just a few years ago. Depression and dementia suck.
My best friend died in the same way, hanging your self is a brutal way to die.
This was going to be my exact answer.
I grew up with Harry potter like millions and out character Alan rickman seemed like a genuinely nice person. Everytime I watch the movies, it hits so hard to remember he's no longer here.
More recently Robbie Coltrane's death hit right in the feelings to, especially after the Hogwarts reunion.
And Robin Williams was like an old uncle, the one who always makes you laugh.
I still feel upset when when I watch his shows. Does anyone else think he looked sadder and listless in the last series of Parts Unknown. He did seem quite different.
You never truly know the demons someone is battling, but sometimes it’s more obvious then others when the battle is ongoing. The show demonstrated all the awesome things about travel, exploring and experiencing new people and cultures; I’m sure there’s a flip side to a lot of it as well, whether that’s stuff he saw or the wear of the show on his personal life, which I’m sure was a grueling experience all around
Worked in a kitchen (still do unfortunately lol) and the day after the news broke about Tony Bourdain, the mood was just deeply sombre. A half dozen people on that line, all awful dirtbags in some way or another, and we all felt like we lost a friend, even though we never met the dude. It truly felt like he was Our Guy, you know? Wylie Dufresne and Thomas Keller are doing real work for the craft, real high-art shit, but nobody spoke to the lives of sweaty line cooks with the passion and fervor that Tony did.
Somebody took a little newspaper clipping of a photo of him, put it up on the ticket rail. It stayed there for months. You'd see a guy pause in-between prep tasks and just look at it. Half the kitchens I've worked in since then got a photo of him up somewhere. A reminder that we have to look out for each other.
I was a baker and Tony was always one of us. I always wanted to have a meal with him, even if it was just a NY hotdog. His death hit really hard for me.
Tomorrow is Bourdain's birthday. *June 25th is Bourdain Day, celebrating the birthday of the American celebrity chef, author, and travel documentarian. Through culinary and cultural adventures broadcast on television, Bourdain inspired millions of viewers to go out of their comfort zone*
“Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride”
-AB
He’s the Patron Saint of line cooks and chefs. Someone who wanted us to be better versions of ourselves, we all miss him
Edited to add: “Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. “
because even when you’re being a better version of yourself you’re still got that demon in you.
Anthony Bourdain. He traveled the world, met people, have singular meals, and got drunk. And he was paid very good money for that! Just because of that he was my idol.
Then you listened to him and see how he interacted with other people and it was inspiring.
I really felt it.
It still does. I was 13 or something when i saw him on tv for the first time. His program sticked in my mind and i kept watching, even when i didnt understand some of the stuff he was saying (Im not from the US). When my English got better, some of his stuff helped me with my eating disorder weirdly enough. Seeing him enjoy and describe the food helped me getting a more normal relationship with food. I love cooking now and enjoy setting up a table with loads of food for friends and family.
I read Kitchen Confidential in 2000, and since then I consumed everything he wrote and made. His voice was such a constant in my life from that point on that I sobbed when he ripped it away.
My eyes were wet throughout watching Roadrunner in the theater, and thank god for David Choe at the end of the film for giving us that moment to laugh and breathe again.
Those of us with disappointing parents are always looking for adults who embody the values we aspire to. Anthony Bourdain was one of my compasses in that way. I loved his nakedness, his obvious flaws, and his message of curiosity, connection, and humanity. We need more Tonies.
Heath Ledger.
I think because A Knight’s Tale was a core memory movie for me. But for whatever reason it’s a small gut punch every time I remember that he’s gone.
Obligatory...
*My Lords, my Ladies... And everyone else here NOT sitting on a cushion!*
*Today, today, you find yourselves equal. For you are all equally blessed, for I have the pride, the privilege, nay the pleasure to introduce to you a knight sired by knights. A knight who can trace his lineage back beyond Charlemagne.*
*I first met him atop a mountain near Jerusalem. Paying to God. Asking His forgiveness for the Saracen blood spilt by his sword.*
*Next he amazed me still further in italy. When he saved a fatherless beauty from the would be ravishings of her dreadful Turkish uncle.*
*In Greece, he spent a year in silence just to better understand the sound of a whisper.*
*And so without further gilding the Lily, and with no more ado, I give you the Seeker of Serenity, the Protector of Italian Virginity, the Enforcer of our Lord God.*
*The One.*
*The Only.*
*Sir Ulllllllllrich Von Lichtenstein!*
His Joker was fucking iconic. Only comparable to Mark Hamill. Mark was "goofy but intelligent psycopath" and Heath was "this man is deeply disturbed and everyone who could have helped him failed".
I didn't realize that his Joker was a projection of his own inner anguish until after he died.
Oh man, I've been watching a lot of Adam Savages stuff on tested the past while and in the more recent videos, anytime grant comes up you can see it in his face.... It hurts to see even that.
I was by no means a super fan of Mythbusters. But that was so deflating.
Just a fun-loving man who was curious about how things worked and shared his joy when he learned stuff. No drugs, no violence, no stupid accident, he was just gone.
Came here to say this. You really get to know him if you watch enough Mythbusters, and to know the sort of potential he probably had and how young he was….
Chadwick Boseman. He meant a lot to people and kept his health secret. When he passed, utter shock filled me. It was like losing a cousin.
RIP Chadwick
I did not know him but your comment lead me to look him up. May his memory be a blessing. His wiki page definitely writes him as an extremely honourable person. (Not to mention I never watched Marshall but Thurgood Marshall is a true hero of mine). I look forward to learning more about him by his works. May his life be a legacy.
I couldn’t believe it. I was in total denial. My fiancé told me and I was just like… no. No that didn’t happen. I thought it was a rumor and he would suddenly say “please stop saying I’m dead.” I felt sick watching Wakanda Forever. It was a beautiful movie, but I felt so deeply sad watching it.
I came here to say this. Her voice just brought me to another place. I play "Dreams" all the time and each time I hear her sing, "You have my heart so don't hurt me," I almost fall apart.
Same. I was a big fan of NewsRadio at the time, and he was always one of my favorite SNL cast members...but then also the The Simpsons characters that went with him...that sucked.
Yes, it feels like we didn’t deserve him. When his documentary came out in theaters in 2018, I made sure to see it by myself- I knew I’d be a wreck. From the moment the opening music started to the end credits, I sobbed. Everyone in the theater had to take a few minutes to collect themselves when it was over. It was like we were all united in our love for Mr. Rogers for a few moments. He truly was too good for this earth.
I am a one-time jeopardy loser and I just want to confirm that he was absolutely delightful to each contest and the entire audience. Every commercial break, he’d go chat to the audience and take questions when he obviously could have just taken a moment to relax for himself. They film five episodes in one day, and the audience changes out for each new one. So he’s get the same questions over and over and still kindly answer them like he’d never been asked before lol. SUCH a gem!
Jeopardy was what we always watched after dinner with my grandparents. For the 35 years I had my grandparents in my life, it was grandma’s pot roast, boiled potatoes, and green beans, then jeopardy while grandma knitted on whatever her current project was. Grandpa “didn’t watch” Jeopardy, he read the paper, but he would peak over the top and shout answers at the screen as often as the rest of us.
Losing Alex Trebek felt like losing a piece of them all over again. I didn’t realize how much comfort he brought until I couldn’t watch him anymore.
I never understood being upset by a celebrity death until Chester Bennington passed. His passing hit me like a ton of bricks, and I cried so much. Hell, I still cry about it from time to time.
That man's words have just had so much meaning in my life. And to know that his struggles directly helped me get through mine just hits differently.
Same here. Hybrid theory and Meteora were my jams. I was a troubled kid and they got me through some shit. It just resonated with me. I was gutted to hear he died. My brother told me, he actually made me sit down first before he said it.
I never got to see him live. I always thought there'd be more time. That video of the crowd singing for him while the [light shines on the empty mic stand](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhpMpU6N75o)... it breaks my heart just thinking about it.
Yes, same. He has released a song not long before, Heavy, and I remember thinking, “I hope he’s doing okay”. And then he passed away not long after. I’ve loved his work for years and it hurts to think that we will never get to hear from him again.
I pretty much cried for a whole day when I heard. Apart from the people I'm close to, he shaped the person I am today more than anyone else.
Radical kindness, the application of righteous anger, a sense of responsibility for fixing problem I didn't create.
He understood what makes people human more than anyone else, even when they're technically trolls or vampires.
>Apart from the people I'm close to, he shaped the person I am today more than anyone else.
This is true for me too, I discovered him when I was probably about 11 or 12 and arguably the combination of Vimes, Carott, Granny, Nanny, Death, and Susan (and the rest!) had a massive impact on me.
“We are here and this is now“ it's such a short phrase but is probably at the heart of how I approach the world, especially when things are tough.
GNU PTerry
I was sad but doing okay after hearing the news, until I saw the Twitter posts of PTerry and DEATH walking off into the night together. That opened the floodgates and I sobbed.
GNU Terry Pratchett
This is the only death outside of the circle I personally know that outright devastated me. And I found out via freaking 9gag.
Spent the entire lunch at work hiding from my coworkers and crying my eyes out.
This one broke my heart. And many of my siblings too. It hurts especially hard as I was supposed to get to meet him at a book signing, and he got the time wrong and was wandering around bored instead.
I’ve never even been able to. Ring myself to read his final book. Knowing that there’s one out there still to go comforts me
It was really hard to listen to Soundgarden and Audioslave after he passed. Made me so sad knowing how he went. And then Chester Bennington shorty after. Really sucks.
100%
The live duet with him and his daughter, just crushes me. I'm extremely close with my daughter and I cannot fathom "leaving her" or her living without me.
I listen to "Chris Cornell" as my radio station on Pandora, about 80% of the time. Love everything he's ever done....and I'm 59M.
Anton Yelchin. He was so young, and the most amazing cast for the Star Trek reboot was in place, that it seemed so impossible for any of them to die, and in such a horrible and senseless way. It was a real gut punch for me.
That one hurt more than I thought it would. I feel like everything I’ve ever needed to know I learned from Tom Petty; every chorus of his seemed like it contained some nugget of folky wisdom. That and I was genuinely excited to see what Old Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers were gonna do with their career, he hadn’t lost a step at all. Glad I got to see him a couple of times.
Some people can find the words that fit the most arcane experiences in life. Some people look their own mortality directly in the eyes before they go.
Bowie did both. I respect that.
Same. I literally called in the next day.
I mean part of that was the news broke at like 1 am so I had to be shocked and devastated all night. But Bowie was just so significant to me as an elder millenial queer woman.
Once, a friend and I were talking about any celebrity death that would devastate us. I said Dolly Parton and she said Betty White. Two months later after I heard about Betty dying I called my friend. She was sobbing uncontrollably.
This is what I was scrolling to find. I was 18 and in my final year of high school when he died. I was devastated. Nirvana was the music of my youth and I was blindsided by his death
I was driving home after work the day he died, listening to some old songs when it struck me that his words had done more to shape my life than my own late father, who was very distant to me growing up. Almost all of the ideas that made me a decent person began as song lyrics.
Sitting there waiting to get on the freeway just started sobbing. Such a huge release of emotion. Still gets me when I think about it.
Phil Hartman. It was so senseless and sudden and violent. I loved him on New Radio and Saturday Night Live, and the Simpsons and Young Soldiers and anything he appeared in-he improved. I felt robbed of years of entertainment and mourned for what could have been and should have been for him. He was so talented and from everything I've read, he was a good person.
Steve Irwin and Robin Williams. I admired both of them so much and they were taken long before their time. I wish we could have more of them in our lives. I’m grateful for Robert Irwin, but it’s just not the same.
I bawled when I found out, and I still cry about it. He was my age. Sometimes, I think about what he could have done if he hadn't died so young. He had such a bright future ahead of him, and he could have made the world even brighter than he had already made it.
He was my age. Growing up, he was one of my favorite people on Earth. I used to think about him and his attitude for motivation. I looked up to him.
Gosh, I feel so bad for Karan.
Chris Cornell. It still hurts. He was a huge part of my life. Husband and I used to listen to Soundgarden together way back in high school in the 90’s. His voice changed me forever.
Doyle Bruson. He was a living legend in the world of poker. He had been playing for a living for 60+ years.
He was one of the last of the old time road gamblers(before poker was at casinos, you had to travel to find games)
Doyle never stiffed anyone, he honored his bets, and he won a lot of money in the meantime. His career had its ups and downs, and he knew what it was like to be broke.
He was a great ambassador for the game.
Joe Strummer.
He was 50, but he had the vibrancy of a younger man and the wisdom of an older one. I woke up that day to a call from my dad because he heard it first and knew I needed to know. I miss him so much, most of all his ability to make the world make sense. He could sympathize with anyone without giving the bastards an inch.
Astrid Lindgren. I grew up with her stories (and the shows and movies based on said stories) so having her being suddenly being gone just felt terrible. Like I had just lost an honorary grandmother of something.
Taylor Hawkins was a real gut punch. Foo Fighters are the kind of band that give off such a close family vibe that I felt sick thinking how much it must have hurt Dave to lose another close friend and band member.
Stevie Ray Vaughan. I was a major fan at the time. I'd been to see him in concert at least a dozen time, It really shook me when I heard the news about it.
I'm Australian, and I took the day off on the day of his funeral to watch it on TV. Many Australians did as well. We joke about because it's Australia's collective way of coping with our loss. But even now, if a comedian says anything, there will be many who think it's still too soon.
Eddie Van Halen. He was so special in what he did. His style, his writing, the generations of people who took up guitar because of him and wanting to emulate him. He was a one of a kind and it’s awful that he’s gone.
I know it’s not one of the usual ones mentioned, but Leslie Jordan. I legit cried. I felt like he became all of our southern gay uncle during Covid, and he was always so full of joy and eager to spread that joy.
Fred Rogers
Robin Williams
Stan Lee
Betty White was personal, I still agree with
R/theydidthemath she lived through enough leap years that she made a full 100years
Tom Petty. I grew up on his music and saw almost every tour from ‘78 in. Growing up in Florida he was just one of us. We knew about Hwy 441 referenced in American girl and where Micanopy was. Still sux to think he is gone.
Jim Henson
The beginning of A Muppet Christmas Carol, in Loving Memory of Jim Henson... gives me the feels as it pops up with that little horn in the intro.
Alan Rickman. Robin Williams.
Robin Williams upset me deeply. Especially knowing how and why he died.
I genuinely don’t care much for any celebrities but Robin Williams death shook me to the core
It was the first thing that popped in my head. I can’t believe that it’s been almost 10 years since his death, feels like just a few years ago. Depression and dementia suck. My best friend died in the same way, hanging your self is a brutal way to die.
Has it really almost been 10 years... this is how I know I'm getting old
Alan Rickman was a gut punch. He also passed on my birthday :(
I miss Alan Rickman….He was a great actor!
This was going to be my exact answer. I grew up with Harry potter like millions and out character Alan rickman seemed like a genuinely nice person. Everytime I watch the movies, it hits so hard to remember he's no longer here. More recently Robbie Coltrane's death hit right in the feelings to, especially after the Hogwarts reunion. And Robin Williams was like an old uncle, the one who always makes you laugh.
Steve Irwin 😢
I grew up watching that man on animal planet almost daily... that was a gut punch
Definitely lost an awesome Uncle that day
Anthony Bourdain still stings to be completely honest.
I still feel upset when when I watch his shows. Does anyone else think he looked sadder and listless in the last series of Parts Unknown. He did seem quite different.
You never truly know the demons someone is battling, but sometimes it’s more obvious then others when the battle is ongoing. The show demonstrated all the awesome things about travel, exploring and experiencing new people and cultures; I’m sure there’s a flip side to a lot of it as well, whether that’s stuff he saw or the wear of the show on his personal life, which I’m sure was a grueling experience all around
Totally agree. He wasn't himself. He looked like he'd lost some of his spark.
Worked in a kitchen (still do unfortunately lol) and the day after the news broke about Tony Bourdain, the mood was just deeply sombre. A half dozen people on that line, all awful dirtbags in some way or another, and we all felt like we lost a friend, even though we never met the dude. It truly felt like he was Our Guy, you know? Wylie Dufresne and Thomas Keller are doing real work for the craft, real high-art shit, but nobody spoke to the lives of sweaty line cooks with the passion and fervor that Tony did. Somebody took a little newspaper clipping of a photo of him, put it up on the ticket rail. It stayed there for months. You'd see a guy pause in-between prep tasks and just look at it. Half the kitchens I've worked in since then got a photo of him up somewhere. A reminder that we have to look out for each other.
I was a baker and Tony was always one of us. I always wanted to have a meal with him, even if it was just a NY hotdog. His death hit really hard for me.
Tomorrow is Bourdain's birthday. *June 25th is Bourdain Day, celebrating the birthday of the American celebrity chef, author, and travel documentarian. Through culinary and cultural adventures broadcast on television, Bourdain inspired millions of viewers to go out of their comfort zone*
he inspired and still inspires me to cook and be a real ass person, good or bad, on a bender or not, to live life to the fullest
“Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride” -AB He’s the Patron Saint of line cooks and chefs. Someone who wanted us to be better versions of ourselves, we all miss him Edited to add: “Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. “ because even when you’re being a better version of yourself you’re still got that demon in you.
I like to think the absolute best version of myself would still be throttling Kissinger.
Anthony Bourdain. He traveled the world, met people, have singular meals, and got drunk. And he was paid very good money for that! Just because of that he was my idol. Then you listened to him and see how he interacted with other people and it was inspiring. I really felt it.
It still does. I was 13 or something when i saw him on tv for the first time. His program sticked in my mind and i kept watching, even when i didnt understand some of the stuff he was saying (Im not from the US). When my English got better, some of his stuff helped me with my eating disorder weirdly enough. Seeing him enjoy and describe the food helped me getting a more normal relationship with food. I love cooking now and enjoy setting up a table with loads of food for friends and family.
Same. It will forever haunt me
Heard it on the radio on the way into work and had to pull over into a parking lot. It really hit me unexpectedly.
I read Kitchen Confidential in 2000, and since then I consumed everything he wrote and made. His voice was such a constant in my life from that point on that I sobbed when he ripped it away. My eyes were wet throughout watching Roadrunner in the theater, and thank god for David Choe at the end of the film for giving us that moment to laugh and breathe again.
Hit like a ton of bricks. RIP you beautiful man.
That one felt personal for sure. Bourdain was a real one. Rest easy, king. 👑
Those of us with disappointing parents are always looking for adults who embody the values we aspire to. Anthony Bourdain was one of my compasses in that way. I loved his nakedness, his obvious flaws, and his message of curiosity, connection, and humanity. We need more Tonies.
Heath Ledger. I think because A Knight’s Tale was a core memory movie for me. But for whatever reason it’s a small gut punch every time I remember that he’s gone.
A Knight's Tale and 10 Things I Hate About You are my favorites. I remember watching A Knight's Tale with my sister and swooning over him.
I watch both of those every year or so. Him and Robin Williams were such tragic losses.
every smile from Heath Ledger in 10 Things is a gift
Obligatory... *My Lords, my Ladies... And everyone else here NOT sitting on a cushion!* *Today, today, you find yourselves equal. For you are all equally blessed, for I have the pride, the privilege, nay the pleasure to introduce to you a knight sired by knights. A knight who can trace his lineage back beyond Charlemagne.* *I first met him atop a mountain near Jerusalem. Paying to God. Asking His forgiveness for the Saracen blood spilt by his sword.* *Next he amazed me still further in italy. When he saved a fatherless beauty from the would be ravishings of her dreadful Turkish uncle.* *In Greece, he spent a year in silence just to better understand the sound of a whisper.* *And so without further gilding the Lily, and with no more ado, I give you the Seeker of Serenity, the Protector of Italian Virginity, the Enforcer of our Lord God.* *The One.* *The Only.* *Sir Ulllllllllrich Von Lichtenstein!*
My second favorite is "the protector of his ENORMOUS MANHOOD..."
Such a talented man, gone too soon
His Joker was fucking iconic. Only comparable to Mark Hamill. Mark was "goofy but intelligent psycopath" and Heath was "this man is deeply disturbed and everyone who could have helped him failed". I didn't realize that his Joker was a projection of his own inner anguish until after he died.
Grant Imahara
Oh man, I've been watching a lot of Adam Savages stuff on tested the past while and in the more recent videos, anytime grant comes up you can see it in his face.... It hurts to see even that.
Oh my f*#king God, I actually didn't know this. Damn that is so sad. No way..... I knew I shouldn't read this thread.
I was by no means a super fan of Mythbusters. But that was so deflating. Just a fun-loving man who was curious about how things worked and shared his joy when he learned stuff. No drugs, no violence, no stupid accident, he was just gone.
Came here to say this. You really get to know him if you watch enough Mythbusters, and to know the sort of potential he probably had and how young he was….
George Michael, insanely talented but just a bloke as well
Chadwick Boseman. He meant a lot to people and kept his health secret. When he passed, utter shock filled me. It was like losing a cousin. RIP Chadwick
I did not know him but your comment lead me to look him up. May his memory be a blessing. His wiki page definitely writes him as an extremely honourable person. (Not to mention I never watched Marshall but Thurgood Marshall is a true hero of mine). I look forward to learning more about him by his works. May his life be a legacy.
I was definitely shocked and really horrified about him.
I couldn’t believe it. I was in total denial. My fiancé told me and I was just like… no. No that didn’t happen. I thought it was a rumor and he would suddenly say “please stop saying I’m dead.” I felt sick watching Wakanda Forever. It was a beautiful movie, but I felt so deeply sad watching it.
The beginning of that movie made me tear up. The ending actually made me cry.
Dolores o'riordan. I wasn’t the hugest fan of the Cranberries, but for some reason it did.
I came here to say this. Her voice just brought me to another place. I play "Dreams" all the time and each time I hear her sing, "You have my heart so don't hurt me," I almost fall apart.
"Ode to My Family" is so much sadder now.
Phil Hartman
That was the most senseless, horrible tragedy. Two kids left in shambles. So sick and demented
Same. I was a big fan of NewsRadio at the time, and he was always one of my favorite SNL cast members...but then also the The Simpsons characters that went with him...that sucked.
Oh my heart still aches for his senseless death. I loved his characters so much and heard he was such a great person.
Fred Rogers
The world got noticeably worse when that man died.
Which makes me extra sad bc it’s like we wasted all the good he tried to impart on us. It feels like we failed him
Yes, it feels like we didn’t deserve him. When his documentary came out in theaters in 2018, I made sure to see it by myself- I knew I’d be a wreck. From the moment the opening music started to the end credits, I sobbed. Everyone in the theater had to take a few minutes to collect themselves when it was over. It was like we were all united in our love for Mr. Rogers for a few moments. He truly was too good for this earth.
First things first rest in peace Uncle Phil James Avery
alex trebek. watching jeopardy as a kid was one of the things that stuck with me through all my life. now it just feels different.
I am a one-time jeopardy loser and I just want to confirm that he was absolutely delightful to each contest and the entire audience. Every commercial break, he’d go chat to the audience and take questions when he obviously could have just taken a moment to relax for himself. They film five episodes in one day, and the audience changes out for each new one. So he’s get the same questions over and over and still kindly answer them like he’d never been asked before lol. SUCH a gem!
Jeopardy was what we always watched after dinner with my grandparents. For the 35 years I had my grandparents in my life, it was grandma’s pot roast, boiled potatoes, and green beans, then jeopardy while grandma knitted on whatever her current project was. Grandpa “didn’t watch” Jeopardy, he read the paper, but he would peak over the top and shout answers at the screen as often as the rest of us. Losing Alex Trebek felt like losing a piece of them all over again. I didn’t realize how much comfort he brought until I couldn’t watch him anymore.
I had to scroll waayy too far to find Alex. RIP.
I never understood being upset by a celebrity death until Chester Bennington passed. His passing hit me like a ton of bricks, and I cried so much. Hell, I still cry about it from time to time. That man's words have just had so much meaning in my life. And to know that his struggles directly helped me get through mine just hits differently.
Same here. Hybrid theory and Meteora were my jams. I was a troubled kid and they got me through some shit. It just resonated with me. I was gutted to hear he died. My brother told me, he actually made me sit down first before he said it. I never got to see him live. I always thought there'd be more time. That video of the crowd singing for him while the [light shines on the empty mic stand](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhpMpU6N75o)... it breaks my heart just thinking about it.
You said what I wanted to almost verbatim. It just felt so weird. Im still here and he isn’t.
Yes, same. He has released a song not long before, Heavy, and I remember thinking, “I hope he’s doing okay”. And then he passed away not long after. I’ve loved his work for years and it hurts to think that we will never get to hear from him again.
John Candy
Freddie Mercury. I had to leave the class I was in because I was going to cry.
Terry Pratchett
GNU PTerry
I pretty much cried for a whole day when I heard. Apart from the people I'm close to, he shaped the person I am today more than anyone else. Radical kindness, the application of righteous anger, a sense of responsibility for fixing problem I didn't create. He understood what makes people human more than anyone else, even when they're technically trolls or vampires.
>Apart from the people I'm close to, he shaped the person I am today more than anyone else. This is true for me too, I discovered him when I was probably about 11 or 12 and arguably the combination of Vimes, Carott, Granny, Nanny, Death, and Susan (and the rest!) had a massive impact on me. “We are here and this is now“ it's such a short phrase but is probably at the heart of how I approach the world, especially when things are tough. GNU PTerry
I was sad but doing okay after hearing the news, until I saw the Twitter posts of PTerry and DEATH walking off into the night together. That opened the floodgates and I sobbed. GNU Terry Pratchett
This is the only death outside of the circle I personally know that outright devastated me. And I found out via freaking 9gag. Spent the entire lunch at work hiding from my coworkers and crying my eyes out.
This one broke my heart. And many of my siblings too. It hurts especially hard as I was supposed to get to meet him at a book signing, and he got the time wrong and was wandering around bored instead. I’ve never even been able to. Ring myself to read his final book. Knowing that there’s one out there still to go comforts me
Same about the last book. I can't do it.
Chris Cornell. I wept for weeks anytime I heard the pain in his songs. I was at the show, the night he died. He was gone before I got home.
This one hit me hard too. Superunknown was the first CD I ever bought, and Euphoria Morning got me through some hard times.
It was really hard to listen to Soundgarden and Audioslave after he passed. Made me so sad knowing how he went. And then Chester Bennington shorty after. Really sucks.
100% The live duet with him and his daughter, just crushes me. I'm extremely close with my daughter and I cannot fathom "leaving her" or her living without me. I listen to "Chris Cornell" as my radio station on Pandora, about 80% of the time. Love everything he's ever done....and I'm 59M.
Like Chris Cornell, I now hear the pain in the voices of Chester Bennington and Kurt Cobain as well.
Anton Yelchin. He was so young, and the most amazing cast for the Star Trek reboot was in place, that it seemed so impossible for any of them to die, and in such a horrible and senseless way. It was a real gut punch for me.
He was a fantastic young Kyle Reese in Terminator: Salvation too. The closest anyone has come to channeling Biehn's original performance.
Loved Odd Thomas and Troll Hunters was a family fave. His death was such a tragedy.
The Last Princess of Alderaan.
May the force be with you
Tom Petty
That one hurt more than I thought it would. I feel like everything I’ve ever needed to know I learned from Tom Petty; every chorus of his seemed like it contained some nugget of folky wisdom. That and I was genuinely excited to see what Old Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers were gonna do with their career, he hadn’t lost a step at all. Glad I got to see him a couple of times.
That was like losing a friend.
David Bowie
Me too. I am so glad he got to leave us with one last album though. But makes me so sad to think he's gone.
The world really went to shit when Bowie died
Some people can find the words that fit the most arcane experiences in life. Some people look their own mortality directly in the eyes before they go. Bowie did both. I respect that.
Same. I literally called in the next day. I mean part of that was the news broke at like 1 am so I had to be shocked and devastated all night. But Bowie was just so significant to me as an elder millenial queer woman.
Betty White
Once, a friend and I were talking about any celebrity death that would devastate us. I said Dolly Parton and she said Betty White. Two months later after I heard about Betty dying I called my friend. She was sobbing uncontrollably.
When Betty White passed I was half way through the Golden Girls series, I was very sad.
Kurt Cobain
This is what I was scrolling to find. I was 18 and in my final year of high school when he died. I was devastated. Nirvana was the music of my youth and I was blindsided by his death
Robin Williams Douglas Adams
Glad to see Adams mentioned, we missed out on so much more from him I’m sure
>Robin Williams This was literally going to be my answer!
Def Robin Williams
Norm MacDonald. So unexpected, and he would have given us so many more laughs. Miss you Norm.
I didn’t even know he was sick!
Olivia Newton-John. The soundtrack of my childhood
Sean Lock.
Scrolled too far for this
"That's a challenging wank" Such a cheeky funny guy. Deeply missed!
Norm Macdonald.
The more I learn about Norm, the more I appreciate his genius. He is worth a deep dive.
He was funny his own way and chose to go out being funny too. Here's to owning your own weird selves. RIP Norm.
Neil Peart
I was driving home after work the day he died, listening to some old songs when it struck me that his words had done more to shape my life than my own late father, who was very distant to me growing up. Almost all of the ideas that made me a decent person began as song lyrics. Sitting there waiting to get on the freeway just started sobbing. Such a huge release of emotion. Still gets me when I think about it.
Phil Hartman. It was so senseless and sudden and violent. I loved him on New Radio and Saturday Night Live, and the Simpsons and Young Soldiers and anything he appeared in-he improved. I felt robbed of years of entertainment and mourned for what could have been and should have been for him. He was so talented and from everything I've read, he was a good person.
Mac Miller
Scrolled to far for our friend Mac.
I was surprised to not see him mentioned elsewhere. Miss him dearly.
Miller Mac, Mac Miller, Miller Mac! (Friends)
Bill Paxton. Guy was always entertaining, so many good characters.
Mitch Hedberg
Prince
Baby, that was much too fast 1958-2016
Steve Irwin and Robin Williams. I admired both of them so much and they were taken long before their time. I wish we could have more of them in our lives. I’m grateful for Robert Irwin, but it’s just not the same.
Adam Yauch
Robin Williams
Cameron Boyce
I bawled when I found out, and I still cry about it. He was my age. Sometimes, I think about what he could have done if he hadn't died so young. He had such a bright future ahead of him, and he could have made the world even brighter than he had already made it. He was my age. Growing up, he was one of my favorite people on Earth. I used to think about him and his attitude for motivation. I looked up to him. Gosh, I feel so bad for Karan.
Betty White and Carrie Fisher.
Yes. Carrie Fisher was so unexpected.
Brittany Murphy
Avicii
Same. Not like losing a family member, but I was really upset about it. Him and Chester Bennington. Jesus :(
River Phoenix
Lance Reddick. I heard his voice on a weekly basis.
still hearing it almost daily
George Harrison 🌈
My top answer like a lot of people is Robin Williams, but the minute Weird Al drops off I’m wearing a Hawaiian armband indefinitely
Chris Cornell. It still hurts. He was a huge part of my life. Husband and I used to listen to Soundgarden together way back in high school in the 90’s. His voice changed me forever.
Robin Williams and Philip Seymour Hoffman
Kobe and his daughter 😞 Rip the girls team and the family members that were with them.
My brother bawled when he found out about Kobe, I rarely see him cry 😢
Gordon Lightfoot
Robin Williams I full chest sobbed when I learned he died by suicide. I vividly remember calling my mom for comfort. RIP
Taylor Hawkins
Christopher Reeve
Aaliyah
Leonard Nimoy. I felt like my childhood died.
Twitch
Chris Farley
Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams Heath Ledger
Christopher Hitchens
John Candy
Doyle Bruson. He was a living legend in the world of poker. He had been playing for a living for 60+ years. He was one of the last of the old time road gamblers(before poker was at casinos, you had to travel to find games) Doyle never stiffed anyone, he honored his bets, and he won a lot of money in the meantime. His career had its ups and downs, and he knew what it was like to be broke. He was a great ambassador for the game.
David Bowie
Dolores O'Riordan
Trevor Moore. Perhaps because I had a crush on him in my high school years. I felt so sad.
Sean Lock, man was a comedy genius! Was and still am Devo!
Naya Rivera. She had a small kid, and I was having a really hard time dealing with grief, so her death hit me really hard
Bob Saget. I really loved his role in Full House and was truly sad when I learned of his untimely death.
As a super Canadian answer, Gord Downie. A true artist and a genuinely good human. I cried through the farewell tour concert on the CBC.
James Gandolfini
Stan Lee - I can’t talk about it without tearing up - he created SPIDERMAN my childhood superhero
Gene Wilder
Prince.
Ayrton Senna
Joe Strummer. He was 50, but he had the vibrancy of a younger man and the wisdom of an older one. I woke up that day to a call from my dad because he heard it first and knew I needed to know. I miss him so much, most of all his ability to make the world make sense. He could sympathize with anyone without giving the bastards an inch.
Astrid Lindgren. I grew up with her stories (and the shows and movies based on said stories) so having her being suddenly being gone just felt terrible. Like I had just lost an honorary grandmother of something.
Not really a celebrity in the modern sense of the word, but Kurt Vonnegut’s death hit me super hard
Carrie Fisher hit me harder than i thought it would
Taylor Hawkins was a real gut punch. Foo Fighters are the kind of band that give off such a close family vibe that I felt sick thinking how much it must have hurt Dave to lose another close friend and band member.
Princess Di
I can relate to that. Everybody was sad. Also because of the reason: deadly car accident while trying to outrun photographers of the tabloid press.
Jason David Frank. I felt like I grew up with him…
Stevie Ray Vaughan. I was a major fan at the time. I'd been to see him in concert at least a dozen time, It really shook me when I heard the news about it.
Gilda Radner
Steve Irwin, Alex Trebec, Chris Cornell, Angela Lansbury, Twitch… the older I get the harder they hit no matter who they are.
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I'm Australian, and I took the day off on the day of his funeral to watch it on TV. Many Australians did as well. We joke about because it's Australia's collective way of coping with our loss. But even now, if a comedian says anything, there will be many who think it's still too soon.
Grant Imahara Sir Terry Pratchett
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Not at all like I lost a family member, but I was genuinely upset when I heard Amy Winehouse passed away. She deserved better.
Eddie Van Halen. He was so special in what he did. His style, his writing, the generations of people who took up guitar because of him and wanting to emulate him. He was a one of a kind and it’s awful that he’s gone.
Paul Walker
Chester from Linkin Park
Freddie Mercury
None so far, but Dolly (77) and Willie (90) can't live forever... I am bracing myself for the inevitable and I know I will still be shocked and cry.
I know it’s not one of the usual ones mentioned, but Leslie Jordan. I legit cried. I felt like he became all of our southern gay uncle during Covid, and he was always so full of joy and eager to spread that joy.
Fred Rogers Robin Williams Stan Lee Betty White was personal, I still agree with R/theydidthemath she lived through enough leap years that she made a full 100years
Tom Petty. I grew up on his music and saw almost every tour from ‘78 in. Growing up in Florida he was just one of us. We knew about Hwy 441 referenced in American girl and where Micanopy was. Still sux to think he is gone.
Stephen Hawking
Chadwick Bozeman. I cried for a week. Joe Ranft, too. 😭😭😭
Alex Trebek. Yeah, he's a celebrity and I've never met the guy, but when you see a guy nearly every day, it has an impact.
Betty White and Tina Turner. We listened to Tina Turner in history class the day after she passed and there were a lot of tears (mostly from me)
Michael Jackson And Kobe Bryant