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 .

Peaches Geldof because her children were just so young and it was such a sudden death. Also her mum because she had had such a terrible couple of years and I always felt like both Bob and Michael had been shits.

John Peel too. Worst thing was I had been told he had died a short while before it was officially announced so had to keep this terrible secret for an hour before I could tell other people who I knew loved him.

Jo Cox, my kids were at school less than a mile from where it happened and the thought that something this horrid, this heartbreaking could happen on our doorstep, on a road I drove down every day shook me. That and the thought of her children not having a mother.

David Bowie - my idol.

Robin Williams - how could someone so dedicated to making people smile be so so sad on the inside?

Heath Ledger. I still struggle to believe someone so bright and beautiful and talented could die so pointlessly.

Bruce Forsyth - I burst in to tears when I heard he had died.

@Greycat11 omg I had forgotten Bruce had died!!

I have another one - Caroline Aherne. Such a waste of talent and she always seemed such a lovely lovely lady.

Chester Bennington. Still heartbroken.

Not a death by any means, but ds is a massive WWE fan so it's ALWAYS on in this house, and one of his heroes Roman Reigns has recently been re-diagnosed with leukaemia and that hit me really hard. I think it's because I've always seen him as a character and not a real person, and seeing him out of character really shocked me, and his announcement brought me to tears. He is so fit and so young it just goes to show that serious illness can happen to anyone, I hope he gets well again soon.

Victoria Wood. Her writing had always been there. Still hard to believe.

No. I find it quite strange that people get so upset about the deaths of people they don't know. I am a huge fan of Terry Pratchett. It's sad he died, of course, just like it's sad when anyone dies. And it's a shame there will be no more Pratchett books (though he wrote a hell of a lot of them!).

I don't mean to sound callous, but I also don't understand why people express disbelief that these people have gone. People die, some of them young. Fame doesn't make you immune.

Leonard nemoy I loved his voice

Terry pratchett I didn't want to finish his last book

Victoria wood I got a bit obsessed showing my partner how great she was fortunately he agrees

George Michael. He died a few months after my brother and we were both raised on wham and GM music as my mum was a fan. Whenever I need a go cry I put on his music in the car.

I cried when Freddie Mercury died. Even the new film made me a bit sad.

Oh and Amy wine house. We crossed paths a few times in north London in the noughties and she always struck me as troubled but a nice down to earth girl.

Terry Pratchett.

There I was merrily ploughing through as many of his books as I could get my hands on when suddenly the ever expanding reading list became so definitely finite.

It's only recently I've been able to bring myself to read another of his books and I'm eking them out slowly like the last bit of chocolate before a diet.

I'm not ready to live in a world with no more of his stories to read for the first time.

Robin Williams, I guess because it was suicide.

I still haven’t been able to watch Hook, that film makes me cry as it is.

My DCs love Night at the Museum and the end of the third one makes me really well up.

I still feel a bit sad listening to Chris Cornell's music. Just an awesome voice and seemed like a nice guy. And so young.

When I was 16 I was a bit devastated about. Kurt Cobain.

Also agreeing about Rik Mayall and Alan Rickman. and Terry Pratchett :(

Does Schnorbitz count? 💔

Otherwise Princess Diana.

Mark E Smith. I was at the last Fall gig in Nov 2017 and as soon as he was wheeled onto the stage I knew it would be the last time I would see him. It was obvious that he had stage 4 cancer I had been to Fall gigs every year for 30 years

Shit, I had no idea that half these people were dead.

Rik Mayall. I burst into tears when i heard he had died. Heartbroken for his family. I’d grown up watching him in everything. Gorgeous man. Felt like a bit of my childhood had gone when he died.

Linda Smith and Victoria Wood, because they both seemed to come out of the blue. And because they seemed such nice, funny women. I remember reading that Victoria Wood had come top of a poll of famous people you would like to live next door to , and thinking that I would definitely have voted for her.

Kirsty MacColl
Robin Williams
Iain Banks
Alan Rickman
Rik Mayall
Ursula Le Guin
Stephen Hawking

Alan Rickman
Actually cried, never cried at a celeb death before. Proper sad, love him and I'm still in denial!

Giggly I was also very saddened about Mark E Smith.

Terry Pratchett. There I was merrily ploughing through as many of his books as I could get my hands on when suddenly the ever expanding reading list became so definitely finite

His last tweet as an announcement for his death - where Death came and took his hand - that had me what? Nooo! too!