Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !

[Skub]

I reckon I'd be happy with 89, IME once you're in your late 80's then your quality of life is starting to slide and unless you're one of those exceptions and still running around like a spring chicken then you're going to be limited as to what you can do. Plus I've budgeted for the majority of my money running out in my late 80's and being on a standard UK pension - if it exists by then.

That's my BIL's plan. He's told his weans if he's fit and strong enough,he will travel as much as he's able and spend as much as he can. They are more than happy with that.

My Da was fit,active,still gardening and driving up until he was 90. After that his quality of life rapidly diminished and the last three and a bit years were hard for him. Hard to watch as well.

Numbers don't mean much when quality of life plummets.

[gremlin]

Nichelle Nichols

Beamed up one last time

S'funny, but when I was a kid watching Star Trek, ad infinitum, it never occurred to me that she was black. She was just Uhura, the communications officer with the lump of metal hanging out of her ear.

[MingtheMerciless]

I reckon I'd be happy with 89, IME once you're in your late 80's then your quality of life is starting to slide and unless you're one of those exceptions and still running around like a spring chicken then you're going to be limited as to what you can do. Plus I've budgeted for the majority of my money running out in my late 80's and being on a standard UK pension - if it exists by then.

Numbers don't mean much when quality of life plummets.

This, we watched our old neighbour succumb to Dementia in his mid 80’s which seemed to be triggered by a bout of Sepsis a few years earlier that left him much diminished. Up until the Sepsis he was witty, always chatty and full of life, always planning holidays to Norway and Iceland. Afterwards was horrible to watch. Perhaps it would’ve been kinder if he went with the Sepsis as his decline which he initially knew was happening was very cruel.

[Potter]

Both my grandads and one gran all went from bouncing along merrily to dead within 24hrs, but one gran suffered slowly for years.
I went to visit one grandad in hospital after a heart attack, he was really chipper, laughing and joking, rosy cheeks, we were sharing war stories and it was like nothing was wrong, I went back in the morning and the change was incredible, he was half the man he'd been the day before, all bent over, skinny, it was bizarre, he was dead a few hours later.
He looked sick as a dog but he'd had less than 24hrs of it before he went.

I'm hoping I'll be like a duck, either healthy or dead, but nothing in between.

[Taipan]

My Grandad was a bus driver and he passed quietly in his sleep, unlike his passengers...

[Pirahna]

Mum died last year at 89. Three last ten years of her life were a bit shit with each year getting a bit worse. The brain tumor op in the naughties was the start of it, she was left deaf on one ear with balance issues and vertigo. Osteoporosis set in and her back started to crumble. Her ankle broke in three places in 2020 and she spent a lot of the year in and out of hospital. In early 21 she was diagnosed with bowl cancer and passed away on October 28th. Thankfully my parents live in Ireland, the care mum received was superb, way above anything the NHS would have been able to offer.

[JackyJoll]

The carnival is over, for Judith Durham.

[Skub]

Mum died last year at 89. Three last ten years of her life were a bit shit with each year getting a bit worse. The brain tumor op in the naughties was the start of it, she was left deaf on one ear with balance issues and vertigo. Osteoporosis set in and her back started to crumble. Her ankle broke in three places in 2020 and she spent a lot of the year in and out of hospital. In early 21 she was diagnosed with bowl cancer and passed away on October 28th. Thankfully my parents live in Ireland, the care mum received was superb, way above anything the NHS would have been able to offer.

Condolences Pirahna.

[Slenver]

TC off of Magnum

[Yorick]

TC off of Magnum

We saw them all filming that when we were there in 1986.

[Mr Moofo]

Oliva Newton John

[Felix]

Oliva Newton John

Been fighting cancer a few years now but 73

[JackyJoll]

Oliva Newton John

She’s got chills, they’re multiplying.

[Horse]

Oliva Newton John

Been fighting cancer a few years now but 73

30+ years? Bit more than a few.

[Mr Moofo]

Oliva Newton John

Been fighting cancer a few years now but 73

30+ years? Bit more than a few.

she did well, considering

[slowsider]

Lamont Dozier

[MingtheMerciless]

Raymond Briggs (88).

[Skub]

Lamont Dozier

It's kind of ironic that those behind some memorable music just drift off largely unnoticed by the great unwashed.

I remember Paul Brady saying he preferred things that way,as he reaped the financial rewards,but remained unpunished by the down sides of fame. Maybe Mr.Dozier liked that too.

[Skub]

Raymond Briggs (88).

No more train robberies for him.

[KungFooBob]

Darius!