To find what’s happened to Michael Mosley quite anxiety provoking

I thoroughly enjoyed the programme about Michael Moseley and his career and lots of stuff I never knew he did. I discovered him through the 800 calorie blood sugar diet and then started watching and listening to him on various topics. This is currently on iplayer and there is also a BBC sounds programme that includes the last 'Just One Thing' he recorded before the holiday.

@Neuroticme you need to click on hide thread .
For me on my phone I go to the top of the page and there's a white circle with a little downward pointing v.
If you click on that you get different options.

Raised a Catholic do death is in our dna. It can happen to anyone at any time. So just got to make the most of the life we have

I think I've done it now. Thanks @UnctuousUnicorns

I did that and it's still happening...

Click "Unwatch Thread" at bottom left.

This is a genuine question. How do I turn off notifications of this thread please. I'm finding it too much now and I don't want to see every time someone posts here? Thanks

So the whim might not have been a whim but have been a bad decusion regarding alcohol rather than an out of the blue "fancy" to commit suicide? Of course tragic but to me more believable than a whim thought process which to me would be something like "what shall I do today? Oh I think I will do xxx" Maybe we are using the word whim differently?

@godmum56 is such an interesting paradox isn't it I know 50 year olds who run a chemical free home, eat only organically produced food, no meat no sugar and exercise vigorously regularly yet choose to travel by motorbike most days.

Re the whim question - I have actually wondered about MM whether he was deliberately taking a 'I might be some time' walk. It's unlikely but we will never know. The teen we had in our extended tribe was popular and well loved happy and going places but had drunk an entire bottle of gin alone which makes his parents believe it was a tragic drunken accident. On a whim. They weren't known to have any MH issues.

Bloody hell, this is what you take from this post and then post it?

The answer is very well known and published by researchers studying survivors - it is often done on a whim. Look it up if you want to know more.

Sorry for what happened @LoveRules

(edited to say this was in response to tragic circumstances of loss of a child not about Michael Mosley)

with respect, we can't know what is in someone else's head. Why is it so certain it was a whim?

I think I wouldn't be thinking of it so much if he had died on the beach with his wife or something, still sad at the loss but it's just the way it happened and how his body was left out, alone for all that time. Such a well known and loved man just left undiscovered. And his family won't even be able to see him. I got a lot of closure being able to see my families bodies. I felt similar with Julian Sands but not as much. Tragic all round

yup, its like the "fighting cancer" and "losing the battle" against a terminal illness. I think people say it as a kind of reassurance to themselves that they would fight harder....do more....be stronger. As the widow of someone who dies from an incurable cancer its hurtful and rage inducing. I do think though that there are two ends to the scale......at one end there is risk mitigation of all kinds....not smoking, carrying a mobile phone, yes carrying a whistle, fitting smoke alarms etc.......at the other end there's the fish oil/kale/peloton mindset attempting to control the uncontrollable. They aren't the same

This thread is reassuring me to know I'm not the only one affected by this celebrity death and the untold trauma his loved ones are suffering.

I think I'm affected by the preventable aspects of his death and how his decisions lead to an unnecessary end to his life partly because early in the year some friends of ours had to deal with their happy popular young son deciding on a whim to end his life which has been unfathomably hard for his close family. Seeing the raw shock and sorrow a preventable death has caused by his ceasing to exist at close range maybe makes me feel the MM disappearance and death more than I might have before.

I'm glad I'm not alone in being affected by his unexpected and very tragic death.

Yes, George Michael upset me a lot too. He was such a star, so full of life in his heyday, and the vision of him alone on Christmas morning just seemed so poignant and sad. I think he really was sad at the end of his life, he’d become a recluse.
I’ve been so upset by MM’s passing too… mostly by the thought of his body lying undiscovered for so long and his family not knowing where he was for all those days. But at least we can say he seemed a very happy man, led an interesting and fulfilling life and was loved… and that counts for a lot. I just hope his family can find peace as it must be very difficult to come to terms with such trauma.

The last celebrity death that truly upset me was George Michael, I was such a fan from a teenager and it was such a shock for him to die at such a young age, however he died at home, in his own bed apparently in his sleep, although still tragic he didn’t suffer, if someone dies peacefully it can bring enormous comfort to those left behind, many of us on here can’t bear to think about what Michael Mosley went through in his last hours and I feel so much for his family that they have to live with that trauma, I truly hope they find some peace and draw comfort that he was so well loved and respected.

Watched the programme and it just reminded me what a brilliant presenter we have lost. His programmes were interesting and funny. No more MM documentaries 😥. I don't know why his death has made me feel so sad - it's almost like I've lost a friend. Can't imagine how his family feel.

Thank you @SallyWD and @GameOfJones yes that's really a possibility of what happened so actually quite a peaceful ending for him which is what other up thread have said potentially a good way to end a life well lived.
Off to watch the programme on him now.

That’s exactly how I’ve been choosing to think of it too @GameOfJones.

I agree with this. He was always so positive and was so close to civilisation so I'm choosing to believe that he thought "I'll just lie down here and rest and someone over there will spot me in a moment."

Did anyone see the wee programme on bbc1 tonight about him. Bless him. It was so sad to see his kids knowing they’ve lost their dad

Me too, just so sad

Fgs read the room

Honestly is everyone not bored of arguing about this now?

I've been tormented by these thoughts too but I'm thinking maybe he had hope at the end. He'd reached civilisation after all and was feeling a bit faint so lay down to rest. Maybe he thought he'd be OK after a rest. Also heat stroke causes confusion so maybe he was too confused to really understand he was about to die.