And the world has gone insane. Really, it has...

[wraithfodder]

The last few weeks have been... ugh.

First, David Carradine dies. I really enjoyed him in Kung Fu and was shocked. It was a senseless death (sigh) and reminded me too much of when Jon Erik Hexum died (playing with a gun on the set). When it was announced Ed McMahon had passed, I wasn't so shocked because I knew he'd been rather ill, and the same with Farrah Fawcett, but now Michael Jackson? Wow, that came out of the blue! I suspect the stress of the show he was putting on, debt, lawsuits, etc. etc. just killed him. When  heard that EMTs had worked on him for 41 minutes (or thereabouts), I said, he's dead. Most CPR does NOT work, contrary to the miraculous resurrections on TV dramas.

Then I go fold the wash, and come back to rumors that Jeff Goldblum (Jurassic Park, Law & Order) had fallen off a cliff in New Zealand while making a movie and was dead. I'm like, oh good grief, who makes up this crap? And oh yes, Harrison Ford's yacht sunk as well and hes' fish food. Geesh, now if they'd said his Piper Cub had gone down, that would have been more believable.

Meanwhile, actor Kevin Spacey laid rest to the Jeff Goldblum rumors on his twitter (which is real, verified, etc.)

http://twitter.com/KevinSpacey
Jeff Goldblum is alive and well. I just spoke to his manager. Stop these stupid rumors.
8 minutes ago from web

Wow, people have just gone nuts, and the idiots are starting rumors. 

Comments

[gatedialer.livejournal.com]

It had been estimated he had not been breathing for about ten minutes prior to the EMT arriving and was unresponsive. At that moment I knew he would not make it as he would have been in a coma if he was resuscitated. It is a shock and very sad. Deaths are sad but a part of life. A friend of mine was an emotional ball of tears when she found out and there I was not really emotionally bothered by it. I felt sort of bad not having any type of reaction but I study death and dying as an anthropologist and I see it from a totally different perspective. Still, he is not suffering with his problems anymore, he can finally rest and I take comfort in that.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I just heard that by the time they got there, he was cold, so.... no chance of revival. I can understand different perspectives on death. It's when the death is unexpected, or the person is young. I must admit that I've taken my pets' deaths harder than when some family members (distant) passed...