Famous Deaths That Legitimately Bummed You Out

[Mari_Mar]

Christoper Reeve...

[Mendicant]

Phil Hartman being blown away by his wife made me sad as he was a funny bloke

[Comrade Slinky]

howard zinn

[doubleblumpkin]

Dio was the most bummed Ive been in a while, before that I think the last one that really affected me was George Harrison

[Teebore]

Dio
Swayze
Chuck Shuldiner

Two celeb deaths that WILL make me cry(if I'm alive to see them) :

Stan Lee
Ric Flair

[Brian P.]

David Caradine, something tells me he died before he came, and that's just fucked!

[BUNGVOX]

Two celeb deaths that WILL make me cry(if I'm alive to see them) :

Stan Lee
Ric Flair

ric flair's life will not end on a happy note.....mark my words.

deaths that bummed me out:
dio
dimebag darrel
owen hart

[Tony Twist]

Whether they bummed me out for a decent period of time or just for the moment I heard the news, these all bummed me out a bit more than other deaths:

Peter Steele
Dio
Dimebag
Layne Staley
Phil Hartman
Michael Jackson
George Carlin

[pleasuretokill]

George Carlin

This for sure...

[copstache]

russ meyer

preemptive: roger ebert

[fecal flakes]

Layne Staley.

I really felt that guy's struggle.

I recently read a description of the room when they found him and it was so fucking bleak. I can't imagine what that guys last days were like.

I heard his teeth were rotting out and he was like 80 pounds.

At the time, I also heard his cat had eaten part of his body.

[fecal flakes]

Scout's honor.

[zombiehead]

Adrienne Shelly


Murder

The 40-year old Shelly was found dead at approximately 5:45 p.m on November 1, 2006. Her husband, Andrew Ostroy, found her hanging by a bed sheet[13] from a shower rod in the bathtub[11] of the Abingdon Square apartment in Manhattan's West Village that Shelly used as an office.[11] It initially appeared to be a suicide.[13] Ostroy had dropped her off at 9:30 a.m. that day, and as the building's doorman told journalists that he had accompanied Ostroy at his behest after Ostroy had not heard from Shelley that day. Upon reaching the apartment, they found that the front door had been left unlocked.[11]

An autopsy was performed the following day. The New York City Police Department was suspicious of sneaker prints in the bathtub that did not match Shelly's shoes (she was found wearing only socks). Shelly's husband also indicated that there was money missing from Shelly's wallet. He denied allegations that she would have committed suicide.[14]

Press reports on November 6, 2006 stated that police had arrested construction worker Diego Pillco, a 19-year-old Ecuadorian illegal immigrant[15] who confessed to killing Shelly after she complained about the noise he was making in the apartment below hers. Pillco said that he "was having a bad day".[15] Police said Pillco had made videos implicating himself in the murder, and as of November 7, 2006 was being held without bail for her murder.[16][17]

Diego Pillco entered his guilty plea on February 14, 2008. He said that, contrary to his original story, Shelly had not complained about noise, but had in fact caught him stealing money from her purse after he slipped unnoticed into the apartment. When she tried to call the police, he grabbed the phone and covered her mouth as she began to scream. After Shelly fell, Pillco tied a bed sheet around her neck and decided to strangle her. Originally, Pillco claimed he didn't know Shelly was still alive when he hanged her, but in court he admitted to choking her with a sheet, tying it around her neck, and stringing her up to make it look like she committed suicide.[18] The medical examiner determined that Shelly was still alive when hanged.[19] Pillco was sentenced to 25 years in prison without parole on March 6, 2008.[20]

At Pillco's sentencing on March 13, 2008, Shelly's husband, along with family members said that they would never forgive him.[21] Andy Ostroy had said of Pillco "...you are nothing more than a coldblooded killer" and that he hoped he would "rot in jail".[21]

In remembering Shelly, Ostroy said that "Adrienne was the kindest, warmest, most loving, generous person I knew. She was incredibly smart, funny and talented, a bright light with an infectious laugh and huge smile that radiated inner and outer beauty... she was my best friend, and the person with whom I was supposed to grow old".[21]

[FATRABBIT]

pimp C
jim henson

[mithrandir]

charlton heston

[death by snoo snoo]

Hunter S thompson.

I found out about this in jail by seeing the Rolling Stones issue he was on. After reading that he took himself out I eventually realized that's how he wanted to go. He felt he could accomplish nothing more. So you must respect his choice.

If you'd had the internet in prison you would have known that IT WAS THE FBI !

[Cribdeath]

Reggie Lewis
Dio
Johnny Most

[father of lies]

Hunter Thompson only bummed me out until the reality of it sank in a bit.

I cried when George Carlin died.

Arthur C. Clarke
Jim Henson
Dio

[fallbacktostone]

cobain dying bummed me the hell out when it happened, i can't lie

the fact that people think he's some paul mccartney equivalent now can't be helped and totally reduces the band to shit but i mean..

[doomeddisciple]

Mr Hooper

[Cribdeath]

Johnny Most

He was part of the soudtrack of my childhood.

Same here. His call when Bird stole the ball, dished it off to DJ for the game winner against the Pistons in the 1987 playoffs still gives me chills.

[altars of radness]

Phil Hartman being blown away by his wife made me sad as he was a funny bloke

Fucking totally. Watching Newsradio is always kinda bittersweet. John Candy, too. Kurt Cobain.

Shitty deaths not far off:

Gore Vidal
Captain Beefheart

[caldwell.the.great]

Douglas Adams

when I was 15 and really feeling on the outs about life in general, a good friend of mine suggested I read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. She said it'd make me laugh. I thought she was full of shit, but I read it anyways and by the second page I was laughing almost nonstop. I remember thinking, "This is the first book that's actually cheered me up."

After that I'd always turn to that book for a laugh or for happiness when I needed it most. No matter what, I'd always feel better after browsing through it.

And then I visited his site one day to see the words, "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" plus his date of birth and death. I am not ashamed to tell you I cried.

[wheatgurm]

Frank Zappa

[wheatgurm]

Syd Barrett

..and this.