Archive for the 'Deceased' Category

Hospitalized for severe pneumonia since August 1st, the actor and executive producer of The Bernie Mac Show was responding well to treatment at first. He later experienced complications and developed a serious chest infection, which lead to his death this weekend.

Sad news. He was a talented and funny guy. Seemingly the kind of guy you could hang out with like any other normal guy.

Last night the world lost one of it’s few bright souls. Not many ever could or can shine like Carlin did. He tuly changed the world everyday. Amazing wit, intelligence, and a social conscience. he died of heart failure on Sunday. He was 71. He will be missed, however he will endure.

Let’s face it, many of us are going to die on the couch watching South Park and the like. Especially the obese, which is how they got so obese…By not moving. So, it’s about damn time somebody combined the couch and the coffin.

These Coffin Couches are made of genuine recycled coffins. Perfect for that Funeral home look. Your sad carcass provides the corpse.

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The world lost another acting legend on Saturday night. Charlton Heston was 84. He won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing “Ben-Hur” and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and a ton of other characters on the big screen. Including one of my personal favorites, Planet Of The Apes.

His larger then life personality will be missed.

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It’s a sad day….We’ve lost one of the most brilliant minds not only in science fiction, but outside of Science Fiction as well, Arthur C Clarke.

He was one of my heroes. To many he will forever be the writer that worked with Stanley Kubrick in creating the science fiction Masterpiece 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. In fact, he was much more then that.

He was a true master, writing masterpieces like RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA or CHILDHOOD’S END as well as 4 books in the 2001 saga. He was also responsible for the advent of the telecommunications satellite Arthur moved to Sri Lanka in the 1950s where he spent the rest of his life.

What he left was an enduring legacy of wonder and exploration, not only of the physical universe, but our place in it. Whatever waits for us in the great beyond, you can be sure that Arthur is enriching and enboldening it.

Who knows, now that he is one with the cosmos, he may just make like the monolith and remain ever watchful as we go about our very small business.

In what looks like some sort of freak accident, a former drummer for the Swedish pop band ABBA was found dead with cuts to his neck in the garden of his house on the Spanish island of Mallorca. According to Police, an autopsy showed it was an accident.

The body of 62-year-old Ola Brunkert was found by a neighbor on Sunday at his house in a coastal area outside the eastern town of Arta.

Just proves one of my many theories. Bizarre band=a bizarre death or two.

They also did an autopsy on the song Dancing Queen and found that it still had legs.

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It’s a sad day for fans of role-playing games worldwide. Gary Gygax, best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson has passed away at age 69. Reports say Gygax had been in poor health, suffering from multiple strokes and a near-heart attack.

Gygax (July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American writer and game designer who co-founded the company Tactical Studies Rules (TSR) with Don Kaye in 1974. TSR published the first version of D&D in the same year. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D) followed in 1977 including The Monster Manual, the first rule book of the new system (I still have mine).

Gygax also started the annual gaming convention Gen Con in 1967. Most recently, Gygax was semi-retired and had been working with Troll Lord Games, a small role playing game company.

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Roy Scheider, a one-time boxer(in case you didn’t know why his nose looked a bit odd) and star of films like The French Connection, Jaws, Blue Thunder and 2010 to name a few, died at the age of 75.

Scheider died Sunday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock. There is conflicting information regarding the cause of death, but he had been sick in recent years.

He was alot like Jimmy Stewart in the sense that he was an everyman and no matter what role he played he was instantly likable. He is going to be missed for sure.

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We have strayed away from coverage of Heath Ledger’s death here at Poptherapy simply because others are covering it and we know you come here for stuff you can’t find elsewhere. Well, here’s a Heath Ledger related story that boggles the mind.

Apparently, genius that she is, the masseuse who found Heath Ledger’s body called Mary-Kate Olsen, who was a friend of Ledger’s BEFORE calling 911.

Because we all know that the Olsen twin powers can raise the dead, right?

“Heath is unconscious, I don’t know what to do!” Diane Lee Wolozin screamed to Olsen during her first phone call to her.

A few minutes later she apparently realizes that he is really dead and she calls Olsen AGAIN. (I would have loved to have heard that conversation.)

Super genius and reject of the human genome project that she is, the masseuse then calls 911.(Probably believing that she is talking with someone from one of the two large buildings that collapsed on that date.)

So, if this story is true, it seems clear that idiots everywhere are the right hand of the Grim Reaper, keeping them good and dead until he can collect the soul.

I have a good mind to call Mary-Kate Olsen myself, but I’m saving that for a natural disaster or car accident.

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Perhaps best known for abusing his one time wife Tina Turner, Ike Turner has died at 76 on Wednesday at his home in suburban San Diego.

His career was overshadowed by the abuse, but he managed to clean up his image a bit in later years, touring around the globe with his band the Kings of Rhythm.

No comment from Tina Turner yet, but I find it ironic that he was overshadowed in life by the very woman that he supposedly beat.

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