Which celebrity death affected you the most?

And you voted and support/defend a guy who molested his daughter.

 

Link (to something not written by @Starman)?

 

Still sad from the loss of Robert McNair?

 

Me? No. Met him. Watched a couple of games from his box. Nice man.

But he’s not family, and we weren’t close friends.

 

This is hardly a defense of your Michael Jackson sad. He may have made great music but he molested children, I guess you can separate that, I can’t.

 

Abe Vigoda. Seriously. I was bummed he wasn’t nearly loved in the real world as he was on this site

 

He’s dead?

 

He died so often (only Kenny McCormick has died more) I thought he might be the one to beat the odds.

 

Anthony Bourdain, without question. I was in a daze for at least a day after I heard the news. Never been to Les Halles or, as far as I know, any of the restaurants or bars he visited in his books or TV shows. I've been an American abroad for more than 10 years, though, and it always seemed to me that Bourdain was doing the best job of helping counteract the well-worn stereotype of the obnoxious, oblivious Ugly American. No othering or exoticizing, no assertions of cultural superiority, no wide-eyed babe in the wilderness bullshit -- just meeting other people and cultures where they are with genuine openness and kindness (aside, perhaps, from that infamous Romania episode).

I wouldn't go so far as to say I wanted to be him -- I don't drink, smoke, or do drugs, for starters. I just really respected him and how he moved through the world. It's one thing to say "we're not all like that" but quite another to live it.
REPOST - Anthony Bourdain from 2011

 

Carrie Fisher.

When I was younger, it was Karen Carpenter.

 

Chris Cornell. Whether he died of erotic asphyxia or suicide, it made no sense. His solo career was OK, but he was working again with Soundgarden and seemed to be engaged in life.

Before that, Kurt Cobain and, more inexplicably, River Phoenix. Phoenix, a supposed vegan and clean living dude, was drugged to the gills.

Really, though, none affected me that emotionally for any length of time. Surprised would be a better description of my initial and continuing thoughts.

 

There are several that have stood out to me over the course of my life:

Princess Diana: I was working that night and the news room came to a stand-still while we all stood in shock, staring, late into the night, at the TV, the wreck, and the enormity of the news, while waiting to see what would happen. And yet, there was a whirlwind of activity/planning for what, unfortunately, eventually transpired.

JFK Jr.: Because I was a bit of a Kennedy family enthusiast while younger, I actually know a lot about them and their place in U.S. history after reading seemingly everything I could ever get my hands on about them as a teen and young adult. And I always liked and was impressed with JFK Jr., first for his looks (of course), but then, after I'd heard a few interviews with him, my positive impression of him only grew. As did my sadness upon his passing. I was glued to the news reports surrounding his death and the days afterward.

Robin Williams: This is the one most recently to have affected me deeply. He was so talented, so versatile, so good in so many different kinds of movies, and so beloved. And he hanged himself? It's still unbelievable. I can't imagine how it must have been for his family.

Junior Seau: This was the sports-related death that has impacted me most. I could not believe it when it happened, nor how it happened, and, at the time, it really angered me.

Of them all, Robin Williams' death is the one I'd say still sticks with me the most.