Celebrity Death Thread

Another bad thing about the young dying like that these days is the antivaxx dog whistling you get in the comment sections.

Already, 'Oooh another early death, if only we could find a common link' all over the news stories.

Turning 40 this year and Darius always looked waaaaay healthier than me so it's a scary one.

Duggie Brown off of, well, everything, 82.

I just did a double take when I read that too.

Shame. I remember him from back then. Same age as me too, and from near to where I grew up.

Not that any of that matters, just came across like quite a nice guy.

Rylan Clarke, also a presenter and a former talent show contestant, said: “Proper sad about Darius”.

Quite the eulogy there.

Wolfgang Peterson. Guess I’ll be rewatching the super long TV version of Das Boot this weekend then.

I think he’d want to be remembered for that over that effing Britney Spears rendition anytime.

They said the death wasn’t suspicious, which we can interpret as either misadventure or suicide. Very sad.

Enemy Mine surely.

They also said there were no signs of intent, so not suicide.

Well they didn't report it as misadventure. Maybe he just died in his sleep, not to be morose but I think we take it for granted that we'll just wake up tomorrow. It's fucking shit but it appears he had a bloody good life.

But fair play to the guy. He could have been a one note joke on a reality show, but he managed to do a hell of a lot. Hit singles and albums, opera training, stage performances, producing in Hollywood. He did a lot more with his 41 years than I've done with mine. If I fucked off the planet tomorrow I would leave nothing more than a collection of NECA figures and a load of unfulfilled ambitions.

He's done a lot of things, but so have we all. We can't ask be famous and we can't all achieve our dreams. For some of us, waving our kids off to school from a home we live in and with a uniform we've managed to get for them is more than enough for one lifetime.

I know you get this, but it's important to realise that all that shit we do all day to pay the bills so our kids can be setup as best we can is as important if not more so.

I've done lots in the past, but what does it matter? The only thing I'll leave behind will be my children and for a brief time a memory. Until then, I'm still alive and although my time is drawing to a close and I start regretting the past, each choice I made brought me here and those other regrets I have might have resulted in me not getting this far or have led to a far worst life.

As an older person, I can confirm that you come to terms with the missed opportunities and the paths your life might have taken and you accept it for what it is. Not what it might be, not what it could, just what it is. Older people tend to be more content with themselves than they ever were in their lives.

It was a bit of a struggle dealing with those "what ifs" for a while though I will admit. But who knows what I might yet achieve with my life. But as long as I'm happy, I don't really care as it's all meaningless in the end.

The second part of my post was tongue in cheek. Don't worry. I have my fair share of issues but I keep them to the appropriate thread. It was more a commentary on that I was quite impressed with the guy's attitude in going beyond a one note joke and how it seemed to have paid off for him to some degree.

I think the funniest thing I've learnt about Darius is that while promoting a water charity and their magic water filter, he drank filtered water from a Thames sewage outlet which gave him viral meningitis and he went into a coma.