Stop the obituaries

No more dead guy postings, please.
I can't take it any more.
It's getting dark, to dark to see,
..... You know the rest.

This keeps up and we're going to need a special forum section for all these posts. :(

That's deep...

Leadfoot
That's deep...

..and wide.
 
J

"Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living."
 
- Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey)
 
Of course that was in 1968, when there were fewer people on the Earth. It's probably more like 15 dead per living person now, or about 107 billion 'ghosts'.

Moshkito
Hi,
 
A bit strange, but I fit into the surrealist area when it comes to these things ... have a drink ... go party!
 
Celebrate ... the wonderful things that you learned from that person and anything else ... but sitting back and crying is not gonna help. Some folks will be missed, but then you and I don't sit here and say we miss Mozart, Beethoven or Bach ... so end of story!

Yes and no. People are rarely missed for more than a few days except by one or two people and when those one or two people die, they are forgotten, they become what they did. If you aren't Bach or Mozart or John Wayne... you are completely forgotten rather quickly. Most of us don't have any notion of who our great great grand parents were, we may know their name and a story or two but that's about it.. a generation or two farther back and we have to research to even know their name. Life, in this world, is for the living.
Death is always weird to me. People tell me it is natural but to me, it never seems natural, it always seems wrong when someone close to me dies. It seems unnatural, at least to me. Still, I move on I don't forget the dead I knew but life goes on without them, if you know what I mean. One day we are vital and a part of everything and everyone, for better or worse. Then one day we are not and everything and everyone moves on and they don't miss us, except for immediate family or a close friend. I am well aware that I like a great many more people than those who like me but it is what it is.
 
DUST: Fleetwood Mac (Danny Kirwan)
 
When the white flame in us is gone
And we that lost the world's delight
Stiffen in darkness.
Left alone
To crumble in our separate night
When your swift hair is quiet in death
And through the lips corruption thrust to still the labor of my breath
When we are dust, when we are dust
When we are dust, when we are dust
When your swift hair is quiet in death
And through the lips corruption thrust to still the labor of my breath
When we are dust, when we are dust
When we are dust, when we are dust
When the white flame in us is gone
And we that lost the world's delight
Stiffen in darkness
Left alone
To crumble in our separate night
When your swift hair is quiet in death
And through the lips corruption thrust to still the labor of my breath
When we are dust, when we are dust
When we are dust, when we are dust
 
 

craigb

If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

 ~ Brooke Shields 

Just the breathing part.

BassDaddy

craigb

If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

 ~ Brooke Shields 

Just the breathing part.

What he said.
 

As if we haven't had enough "real" deaths this month, there apparently is a social media hoax today that Joe Cocker and Leslie Nielsen have just died as well.  Um, no.  They've both been dead for a while now (heck, Joe died on my birthday in 2014, Leslie sometime in 2010).
 
Sheesh! 

Congratulations Mesh!

1) I agree with, ampy... too many obits flooding the CH lately. It's gettin' gloomy.
 
2) Since Abe Vigoda (the immortal) supposedly passed the other day I'm thinking the planet got nuked by aliens and we are all actually in some twisted afterlife mirroring the exact shizhole we were living in previously... except without Abe Vigoda.
 
3) Lemmy is watching over us all. Do not anger the Lemmy.

"No one gets out of life alive" - Jimmy The Hand
 

jamesg1213

Moshkito
Hi,
 
A bit strange, but I fit into the surrealist area when it comes to these things ... have a drink ... go party!
 
Celebrate ... the wonderful things that you learned from that person and anything else ... but sitting back and crying is not gonna help. Some folks will be missed, but then you and I don't sit here and say we miss Mozart, Beethoven or Bach ... so end of story!

Of course we don't, because they didn't exist in our lifetimes.
 
Just to pick a few at random, I miss Iain Banks, Terry Pratchett and Freddie Mercury. Likewise John Martyn, Stuart Adamson and Gary Moore. I miss Christopher Hitchens, even though I only became aware of him a short while before he died. It seems a shame that such people have gone too soon, and will have no further part to play in what's going on.

I'm not attached to people that much. Sure I miss Daevid Allen, one of the greatest and best people I ever met, both funny, literary, intelligent and a great artist, singer and writer ... but ... for me, he is more important as a person that taught me about myself, than anything else ... he showed me one of the ways to path ... and I can not ask for more than anyone/anything else.
 
To me, the inspiration is inside, and forever alive ... it will never die. Their body's will ... and as Daevid says ... in one song ... "you can kill my body, but you can't kill meeeeeeeeee .... " ... and I think that you have to relate to that ... for me, it's the soul of the person that matters, not anything else. Their work is the bonus gift to you and I.
 
NP: Garry Moore - Spirit (to the end of the album) from his first solo. AND, very loud. The best guitar solo ever.

Moshkito
 
 
 
To me, the inspiration is inside, and forever alive ... it will never die. Their body's will ... and as Daevid says ... in one song ... "you can kill my body, but you can't kill meeeeeeeeee .... " ... and I think that you have to relate to that ... for me, it's the soul of the person that matters, not anything else. Their work is the bonus gift to you and I.
 
 

 
I don't believe in a 'soul'. All the people I mentioned still had much, much more to offer. They're gone too soon, that's why I miss them. They all inspired me, and I would rather they were still alive, simple as that.