a general thread for all deaths is a bit bleak, heb.

Possibly
But it is also sad when you post an individual thread over the death of someone you admire and it draws nor response at all

There is this generic thread already
But I think the injured joke has run its course.

If this thread had used the 'injured' meme, there would have been justified outrage

It's just not going to be too long before someone is hurt over a thread name that grew out of conflicting reports over Steve Irwin's death

To me, this was NOT amusing

ah. What a dumbarse i am. I didn't see that. I have been on holidays you see. My mistake.

when i was working in obits we had a how we remembered him/her section. less jarring.

that thread was about as funny as frigid star making a joke about mary hansen.

George Osmond, father and early manager of the singing siblings who shot to the top of the charts with ''One Bad Apple'' in the early 1970s, has died at age 90, a family spokesman said on Tuesday. The Osmond family patriarch, who helped launch the musical careers of six of his eight sons, including Donny, and his only daughter, Marie, died of natural causes on Monday at an assisted-living center in Provo, Utah, said spokesman Kevin Sasaki...

Hilda Braid, who played Victoria ''Nana'' Moon in the soap, has died at the age of 78. She died peacefully at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, East Sussex after a period of ill health, a hospital spokeswoman said. Braid starred in the BBC soap from 2002 to 2005. Her other TV credits include Citizen Smith, Casualty, and Man About The House...

Surprised no one mentioned about Evan Farrell ex-bassist of Rogue Wave

damn

Keith Baxter, the former drummer of late nineties indie-rock outfit 3 Colours Red, has died of liver failure. Just aged 36, he was surrounded by his friends and family when he passed away from a Gastro-intestinal Haemorrhage on January 4.

His partner Rachel said of his death: “'Keith's sudden death has left us all in shock and words cannot express the how much he meant to us all. He was a loving, kind, gentle and talented man who lived life. He was a loving, kind, gentle and talented man who lived life. Those of us who had the pleasure of sharing part of his life with him will hold the memories close to our heart and part of him will always be with us.”

A statement on the band’s website reads: “Our much loved friend Keith Baxter died peacefully on the 4th January 2008 in the Royal Lancaster Infirmary from a Gastro-intestinal Haemorrahage aged 36. He was surrounded by his loving family. Keith's partner Rachel, twin Garry and brothers Kev and Neil would like to thank everyone for their kind messages and support at this tragic time.”

Liver failure at 36! Sheesh. Must have ''lived life'' quite extensively. Still sad tho.

A friend of mine had major pancreas failure at 28. Got him to the hospital in time though.

RIP brad renfo.

LORD Bloody Wog Rolo was an electronics engineer who made his living as an auto-electrician and installed car alarms. He called himself a professional alarmist. Others call him one of Australia's great stirrers.

Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died at the age of 64, Icelandic TV and radio said today. Fischer, who died yesterday, gained fame in his teens for his chess-playing ability and, in 1972, became the only US-born chess player to become the official world chess champion. But the grandmaster refused to defend his title in 1975 when the World Chess Federation did not accept all his conditions for a title defence. Fischer renounced his US citizenship and, in 2005, he moved to Iceland where he lived until his death...

Apologies if this has been posted previously. John Stewart, former Kingston Trio singer, author of Daydream Believer and solo artist just dropped off the twig. His solo song ''Gold'' seemed to be every second tune played on AM radio in mid 1979.

The kids used to sing ''There's guys out there turning sheilas into moles'' as a substituted Gold line. Ah, the suburbs!

Wasn't Bobby Fisher also on Home & Away?

Actress Suzanne Pleshette, best known as the feisty but level-headed wife of Bob Newhart on television's 1970's hit ''The Bob Newhart Show,'' has died at age of 70, friends said on Sunday. Pleshette died of respiratory failure at her Los Angeles home on Saturday, friends and associates told local media. She had received chemotherapy for lung cancer in 2006 and appeared at a ''Bob Newhart'' reunion in September in a wheelchair. Newhart issued a statement calling his co-star ''an indomitable spirit'' and ''one of those people you thought would go on forever. She was a pro's pro and I know she was looking forward to getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on her birthday, January 31,'' said Newhart. The raven-haired Pleshette, trained for the stage in New York, became a regular on television shows in the 1970s and 1980s and most recently appeared in a recurring role on NBC's ''Will & Grace.'' But she was best loved as the no-nonsense Emily Hartley, foil to the wry Bob Newhart, on ''The Bob Newhart Show'' from 1972 to 1978...

Paddy McGuiness, former editor of Quadrant, yesterday.

Former Indonesian president Suharto about an hour ago.

Here's one I missed:

Hector Zazou: Eclectic producer and pioneer of world music collaborations, passed away on September 8, 2008, in his sixtieth year.

Hector Zazou was an adventurous, eclectic and prolific musician who pioneered the concept of the artist-as-producer and made an international name for himself with his sensitive and accessible world music fusions.

Vale Linda Gebar

We very sadly report the passing of one of Melbourne music's most popular and hard-working identities, Linda Gebar. Linda, 43, passed away on Tuesday night at her home in Mount Eliza from unknown causes 10 days after giving birth to her second daughter.

Linda was a long-time booker of the Punter's Club, former manager of Frente, the Black Eyed Susans and the Killjoys and had worked for APRA and 3PBS.

More recently, she started managing the Honeys - the band of her partner Bruce Begley - and booking the Continental Hotel in Sorrento.

that's sad

That's awful, that poor family. My heart goes out to them

Don't think I knew Linda, but Begley's a good bloke. Commiserations.

Fuck. 10 days after giving birth to her second daughter. That's very sad.

My favourite Australian artist, James Gleeson :(

James Gleeson is dead?

Like meatie, I didn't know her- I was away during her heyday- but she seems to have been very well liked. I've had a few people get in touch about this.
And yes, Frankie, very sad indeed.

It was just on ABC news Frankie.

Jimmy Carl Black

Barack Obama's Grandma Madelyn Dunham.

New journalism pioneer Studs Terkel. 96!

Curiosity never killed this cat - that's what I'd like as my epigraph.

Michael Crichton - the author, filmmaker, and television producer best known for his 1990 novel Jurassic Park - is dead at the age of sixty-six.

According to a statement released by his family, Crichton was privately battling cancer.

Jimmy Carl Black? How sad.

Miriam Makeba

Mitch Mitchell

Estelle Reiner October 26, 2008: Estelle Reiner, 92, American actress who became famous for the one line - ''I'll have what she's having'' - in When Harry Met Sally. Also a painter and jazz singer, she was the wife of Carl Reiner and mother of Rob Reiner.

~IVAN FRANCIS SOUTHALL, AM, DFC

AUTHOR, PILOT
8-6-1921 — 15-11-2008

Ivan Southall, a prolific writer of more than 50 books, among them those that made him one of the modern era's foremost writers of children's literature, has died of cancer at a hospice at Wantirna, aged 87...

Reg Varney's bus has reached the terminus