Has any famous persons death affected you more than it should?

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I still struggle with David Bowie dying when he did , he had just brought out a new album and thought all was well . He and Pink Floyd were my childhood music .
Also Freddy Mercury, just feel so sad that such a talented and versatile man died too young when now people with aids live long happy lives .
People I have never met but feel so much sadness that they have gone .

Alan Rickman, Victoria Wood and Caroline Aherne.

I'm not sure why those three but whenever I remember they are dead I get real pangs of sadness. It's funny how people you've never met can affect you.

Steve Irwin got me. It wasn't just the way he died but it was the fact he left behind such a young family. I still feel sad whenever I think about him.

Amy winehouse. I had pnd after dd and didnt get help.
I spent some afternoons holding dd whilst singing to love is a losing game and sobbing. I looked forward to another album but Amy died.
George Michael. I absolutely loved his voice and his honest songwriting. He bared his soul.

Chester Bennington. Still can’t believe it. Poor guy.

I was sad when Freddie died as I'd been a massive Queen fan growing up, though I'd sort of gone off them a bit (after years of obsession) by the time he died. I saw Bohemian Rhapsody the other day and have been thinking about Freddie a lot since. I was quite sad when David Bowie died too.

But the one where my reaction really shocked me was Chris Cornell. I cried, a lot, and it really affected me - the way he died and the fact that it was so unexpected. Soundgarden were a huge part of my life from my mid-teens onwards and I still listen to them now aged 42. So I suppose I felt like he was "mine" in a way...

Princess Diana so unexpected
Jamie Bulger
John Kennedy and Carolyn Bessette- how tragic for his sister and Carolyn's family.
Caron Keating - Gloria Hunniford's daughter and a presenter in her own right. So beautiful, again so young.
Jonathan Ball and Tim Parry in the Warrington bombing. So awful.
The Omagh bombings and the Enniskillen bombings.
911

Caroline Ahearne - so talented. Too young.

Bourdain

Richard attenborough.. Adored him in Miracle on 54th Street and for what he did for Chelsea as well. Be devastated when David joins

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.. Did so much outside football as well and with what Leicester FC achieved. The little touches he did for both club and again outside the club.
Think also cause you see the helicopter take off on the football programme and the casual chat about it.. Then to find out what happened so soon after. His sons tribute and the silences last weekend :-(

Robin Williams...

I don't know that people like James Bulger should be in this thread.
He became famous because of his death, in the most horrifying circumstances.
I think it's disrespectful to compare those kinds of circumstances on a thread with people's favourite singers and such who died .

Prince. I've been so emotionally affected by his music since age 13 and when he died I was 42. I find it almost unbearable to listen to certain songs because of their effect on me but that happened when he was alive too. I hear/feel so much pain in some of his guitar solos and that connected me to him during my angsty teen years onwards. Probably sounds over the top to some but you either get it or you don't I guess.

Princess Diana. I can still recall every detail of that day and the week following. Forgetting everything else, to die at 36 really got to me.

I really grieved over Steve Irwin, he was such a vibrant amazing man, a loving dad and a real hero of mine, and died in such a senseless way.

I would never have expected to be that upset over someone I'd never met either, but it felt like a real loss, and I was (and still am) so sad that we'll never get to see what he'd accomplish or watch him grow to be a grandfather.

I've been sad and thrown when others have died (Bill Paxton comes to mind), but not grief-stricken.

Princess Diana, I'd put the radio on that Sunday morning & thought that it had changed stations, when they announced her death on the 9.00am news it was like the world had stood still, I remember shouting downstairs to my mum to put the television on, I cried for William & Harry because I knew that the royal family would have total control over them & their lives would be changed forever.

Terry Wogan, I grew up in the days before breakfast television & have so many memories of him doing his breakfast show, the radio was always on in our house, his show & Jimmy Young who was on for the rest of the morning were part of the ritual in our house.

Victoria Wood, I always loved because she made so many mundane things funny.

Amy Winehouse, we were away on holiday in Skegness when it was announced that she had died, hearing any of her songs now takes me back to the caravan we stayed in.

Alex Higgins, my late partner was a professional snooker player & he was heartbroken when it was announced. He had been drawn to play Alex in the Benson & Hedges tournament, Alex had to withdraw as he was too poorly to play, my partner got a mention in the last paragraph of his biography, I like to think that they are playing on the big table in the sky now.

@inepon Steve was such a champion in animal conservation wasn't he , I was listening on radio a few months ago how his wife and children are keeping his conservation / zoo going , Bindi sounds like such a compassionate soul like her father .
I was so shocked that he spent so many years so close to crocs and other dangerous animals and for a fish to kill him seemed so very unlucky and so sad .

Freddy Mercury, cried loads. I was only 14 but it really effected me. I just grew up with listening to them and my parents loved them.
Still get sad listening to days of our lives and the show must go on.
Gives me goosebumps ☹️

Yes he really was! He completely changed the way I saw animals. The whole family seem so sincerely passionate about animal welfare.

I think that one of the reasons it continues to feels so sad is their continued exposure on TV and the Internet; Bindi and Robert are growing up and they look and sound so like him, but he'll never see them.

I'm know lots of kids lose their parents, and this is a very normal daily story - I just continue to wish he'd managed to avoid that bizarre death. The only consolation is it was fast and didn't happen by a creature which he'd been trying to teach people not to fear so much, like a crocodile.

Terry Pratchett
My heart broke. I mourned like I had lost a friend. I'm sad just writing this, I mourned the books we will never read. I was inconsolable reading The Shepherds Crown when I was able to bring myself to read it.

Was sad when Alan Rickman went and also Patrick Swayze.

In no particular order

Robin Williams
Heath Ledger
Alan Rickman
Terry Pratchett
Bowie
Carrie Fisher
Rik Mayall

All have played a huge part in my life through their work.

Well I am a very emotional person and cry easily so, over the years, have been upset at quite a few deaths.

The ones I can think of are: Michael Jackson, Ayrton Senna (am a big F1 fan), Freddie Mercury, Marc Bolan (was such a big fan - heard the news on the radio when sitting in a coffee bar with ex boyfriend and burst into tears).

David Bowie though really upset me. My sister, mum and quite a few friends contacted me to see if I was ok. On the day I heard I was just somewhat stunned but then the next day it seemed to hit me and I then cried on and off for about a week. I had grown up listening to Bowie, loved just about all his music, had seen him a few times live (nowhere near enough times though).

Then George Michael. Again, was a big fan. Love his music, such great lyrics in a lot of them. Was lucky enough to see him live a couple of times and his voice blew me away. Boy could he sing.

That Christmas Day I was dancing round the house to Wham music. Singing at the top of my voice. I said to DH "I really hope George tours again and we will be going no matter how much it costs"

Later that day one of my family said that George had died. I honestly thought it was a sick joke. Turned on the tv and it was true. I burst into tears. Just didn't feel festive after that so me and DH went home.

I still really struggle to listen to George's music and can't believe he is no longer with us.

Me and DH went to Brixton and to George Michael's home in Highgate

The ones that shocked me -

Elvis Presley
John Peel
John Smith
Donald Dewar
Rfk & Jfk
Princess Diana
Ian Charleson
Paul Eddington
Linda Smith

Saddened -

Margot Kidder
Christopher Reeve
(Big Superman fan)

Discovered Iz Kamakawiwo'ole on youtube about a year ago. Cried when I realised he died years previously.

Oh, Iz!! Wasn't his music just wonderful Tidy? Such a loss.

Acrossthepond - yes, beautiful music. The Little Ones and I watched some on YT tonight before they went to bed, and now I fell very tearful.

The deaths of Alan Rickman, Louise Rennison, Terry Pratchett, and Deric Longdon all hit me really hard, but Chester Bennington's had me in bits for weeks. I suppose because it was suicide.