Is it going to be one of those years for famous people dying?

[GeoffCapes]

First Pele, then Ken Block, now Gianluca Vialli.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64039302


It's only the 6th January!

 

[dickygrace]

Sad that, only 58.

 

[cheshiremaserati]

But he did well. Pancreatic cancer is usually late stage presentation and most are dead in a matter of months. This guy survived a few years. Tragic, nonetheless.

 

[lifes2short]

what's going on, another bites the dust and at no age at all, RIP Gianluca, does put life in to perspective and to make the most of it whilst still alive and kicking

 

[Ewan]

Lovely chap. Met him at Lucknham Park near Bath, horse riding. He married the sister (Cathryn) of an old school and rugby (ex-England) colleague, Steve White-Cooper.
LuckiIy I'd arrived in the med-blue QP GTS, so I could claim tenuous allegiance to Italy!

 

[midlifecrisis]

Great personality, a great player and manager. And I'm a United fan.

 

[allandwf]

They die every year you know, some are more famous to some people than others that's all.

 

[DLax69]

But he did well. Pancreatic cancer is usually late stage presentation and most are dead in a matter of months. This guy survived a few years. Tragic, nonetheless.

Jeremiah Green, Modest Mouse drummer, dead from cancer at 45

Jeremiah Green, the founding drummer for the rock band Modest Mouse, has died just days after the band announced he had been diagnosed with cancer

abcnews.go.com

All over. And Green was only 45.

 

[Scaf]

They die every year you know, some are more famous to some people than others that's all.

And to be honest, their demise is no more or less sad than anyone else’s death, just a little bit more newsworthy perhaps.

 

[DLax69]

And to be honest, their demise is no more or less sad than anyone else’s death, just a little bit more newsworthy perhaps.

Personally, I plan to live forever. And I have to admit it's working at the moment.

The only "celebrity" I ever mourned was Bowie...not sure why that one actually impacted me. Guess because he had been one of the sole constants over my highly variable life. But I feel worse about losing a dog.

 

[Felonious Crud]

Good thing none of us here is newsworthy. Immortality assured.

 

[Oneball]

Good thing none of us here is newsworthy. Immortality assured.

Wasn’t there a town mayor you lot upset?

 

[DLax69]

Wasn’t there a town mayor you lot upset?

Few of those under my belt...

 

[Felonious Crud]

Wasn’t there a town mayor you lot upset?

Yes, but only one and intervention from some good humoured armed constabulary ensured it didn't make the news.

 

[Ewan]

David Duckham MBE - R.I.P.
One of England’s finest players, and a lovely chap whom I had the pleasure of sharing many a long and lively lunch with.

 

[DavidL]

David Duckham MBE - R.I.P.
One of England’s finest players, and a lovely chap whom I had the pleasure of sharing many a long and lively lunch with.

Home grown Cov lad, even went to the free grammar school. I recall his name mentioned when I was growing up. He must have played with my old PE teacher at Coventry. RIP

 

[MAF260]

Jeff Beck has just been reported as dead. They’re coming thick and fast!

 

[DLax69]

Jeff Beck has just been reported as dead. They’re coming thick and fast!

Yeah...someone texted me in the middle of a meeting. I asked if Clapton had given him COVID. Was that wrong...?

 

[Wack61]

Old people die, young adrenaline junkies die, it's the ones that die through no fault of their own I feel sorry for, the wife of one of my wife's work colleagues died yesterday, cancer at 40 , what a tragedy that is.

 

[daverichardson]

Tell me about it Dementia onset at 40is just as bad