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Who is your ‘diana’

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Twolipstulips · 14/04/2019 22:15

Just reading the Diana thread

Who is your celebrity that you will mourn..

Mine is Meat Loaf, Paul Weller and Bob Dylan

I will genuinely cry when they die.

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Jsmith99 · 14/04/2019 23:05

I don’t mourn the deaths of people I never met, however, I will in some way mark the passing of Sir David Attenborough. He continues to make a huge contribution to highlighting and informing the public about environmental and conservation issues.

Jiggles101 · 14/04/2019 23:11

I was devastated when Tom Petty died. He was such a lovely man. He's just quit touring so he could spend more time with his daughter and granddaughter and then died, age just 66. So unfair Sad

I'm so grateful I got to see him in Hyde park a few months earlier, it was one of the best days of my life.

Yes to Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Nicks too.

Fr3d · 14/04/2019 23:11

I was a bit devastated when Robin Williams and Peaches Geldof died. Had enjoyed their acting/appearances, sad to think they were suffering too.

The Queen passing will be a big change.

whymewhyme · 14/04/2019 23:14

David attenborough And the queen

whymewhyme · 14/04/2019 23:15

I was gutted when Keith flint died last month

stanski · 14/04/2019 23:18

The Queen
Dame Maggie Smith
Sir Michael Caine
and probably Eminem 😂

OP you say you & your dad are fans of Bob Dylan - he's at BST Hyde Park this summer. It's him & Neil Young.

LadyKylieShagworthy · 14/04/2019 23:25

The Queen
Judy Dench
I think anyone who dies before the age of 70ish is tragic.

ScrambledEasterEggs · 14/04/2019 23:30

Andy Murray. I bloody love him!

MillicentMartha · 14/04/2019 23:33

Rik Mayall’s death upset me because he felt like he was from my time. Unlike David Bowie or Terry Wogan who seemed like a generation above me. But I sobbed when Freddy Mercury died. Blush

itsinthetriforium · 14/04/2019 23:34

The Queen for me too, and Prince Philip if he predeceases her because it would be sad to think of her being so sad.

I find it quite upsetting to hear of anyone dying young/tragically, not just celebrities.

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Twolipstulips · 14/04/2019 23:35

stanski. Thanks. We are both not up for standing unfortunately,

We did see bob Dylan together at Hyde park in 96, never will forget

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Idontmeanto · 14/04/2019 23:39

David Attenborough and JK Rowling will feel like a personal loss. (Assuming I outlive the latter, she’s only a decade or so older than me.)

MissTerryShopper · 14/04/2019 23:40

I've been very sad when a number of celebrities have died. I suppose it reminds us of our own mortality that people who were there during our younger days have gone.

Yesterday I cried when I watched Under Pressure on YouTube. Just the fact both David Bowie and Freddie Mercury have gone. So sad.

SwedishEdith · 14/04/2019 23:43

Dylan and Springsteen for me as well. Was thinking about this, weirdly, only the other day. Leonard Cohen was the last one to really get to me. It was the timing - just as Trump was elected. Just when we needed him.

Sarcelle · 14/04/2019 23:43

I was genuinely upset when Bowie, Wogan and Victoria Wood died.

I will be upset when the Queen dies. I am not a monarchist but she has been steady continuity, somebody from a different time, and it will be unsettling when she goes.

crazypsychedelictrifle · 14/04/2019 23:46

I was sad when Alan Rickman died. And Rik Mayall, Layne Staley, Keith Flint and Adam Yauch.

But I know I'll cry when David Attenborough dies.

aweedropofsancerre · 14/04/2019 23:47

The only time I have got emotional at someone I didn't know dying was Keith Flint.

crazypsychedelictrifle · 14/04/2019 23:48

Won't it be strange hearing people sing "God save the King"?? 🤔

AltogetherAndrews · 14/04/2019 23:52

It’s not grief for the person themselves, because I never met them, but it is grief for knowing that there will never be another new Terry Pratchett book. I didn’t know him, but his words were important to me and I knew them so well. It’s grief that I won’t meet the characters again, and see how things developed.

I think I understand someone’s grief for an artist or a musician or an author or an actor, you don’t love them, but you love their work and it has come to an end.

I find grief for Diana weird though, there was no art to mourn, you didn’t know her. It was like people built her up into a fictional character that they invested in, and treated it like entertainment and were then upset when the story ended. I suppose that’s what happens with celebrities rather than artists though, we treat them like a soap opera and feel invested in the story.

SchrodingersBrexit · 14/04/2019 23:54

David Attenborough.

I don't know that anyone else will capture the magic in the same way for me.

A bit like when Steve Irwin died.

theplanetgalifrey · 14/04/2019 23:55

Maggie Smith. It feels like she’s been around forever and she’s still amazing in everything she’s in.

I’m not a royalist at all but I think it’ll be a sad day when the Queen dies. It isn’t so much the death of a queen but that she’s given so much of her life to that job, and probably sacrificed an awful lot for it.

OldAndWornOut · 14/04/2019 23:55

I was really sad when Jade Goody died.
Not that I even liked her, really.

alltoomuchrightnow · 14/04/2019 23:56

Robin Williams was heartbreaking

alltoomuchrightnow · 14/04/2019 23:56

George Michael too as loved him since I was 11

JaneJeffer · 14/04/2019 23:59

It seems strange to anticipate how you will feel if someone dies. Who's to say we will outlive them?!

I love Bob Dylan and I'm grateful for his music and that I got to see him in concert.