Is This Year...weird?

[sp1814]

Okay...I don't want to sound flippant - but does anyone else think that there's an usually high number of favour people dying this year?

It's got to a point that when I log into my favourite news papers in the morning, I'm almost expecting to read about another celebrity death.

Is it just my impression, or do others feel the same?

[sp1814]

For 'favour' read 'famous'.

[Old_Geezer]

I think this has been mentioned.
Maybe all the big celebs were of an age.

[Psybbo]

Yes I said the same yo OH this morning

[ummmm]

I feel the same. One after the other.

My nan died too...

[woofgang]

2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34870598

2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34870598

2013 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/celebrity-deaths-2013-famous-faces-2965029

[sp1814]

woofgang

No!!!

Geraldine McEwan????

I didn't know about that!

[Svejk]

Psybbo
///Yes I said the same yo OH this morning///

Do you know SP's other half, psybbo? (pass on my sympathy)

[Gromit]

Cartoon 6

http://gromcartoons.com/home/week%2003%202016.html

[viv41]

Yes, I keep wondering who on earth will be next.

[wolf63]

Gromit - watch out, you could become a celeb and they seem to be dying off quickly.

[VHG]

woofgang, your 2014 and 2015 links take you to the same page.

[sir.prize]

And . . .today

Paul Daniels and Frank Sinatra Junior

RIP

[agchristie]

I've got a few transvestites in an each way bet and a few American actors in a Yankee.

[Hypognosis]

Just as the budget speech was starting, the news ticker was abrubtly removed from view, just as it was mentioning Sylvia Anderson. Due to budget coverage, she wasn't mentioned on the main news, at all.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35818530

(After all these years, I finally find out what Supermarionation actually meant).

[retrocop]

//Is This Year...weird?//


No.When people reach a certain age they die.Any real longevity above that may/may not be a bonus. So they are famous in your view. Doesn't make them Peter Pan.

[ToraToraTora]

it's a tory conspiracy, kill off the flavour people!

[woofgang]

sorry folks, should have been this one
http://www.biography.com/people/groups/famous-people-who-died-in-2014

[Khandro]

I read them too sp, and as long as I'm not among them I plod on seeking truth, beauty and wisdom for as long as I can. :0)

I think that well-known people have always died on a consistent basis, it's just that now so much 'news' and information is flashing about so fast that we are more aware of these events as they happen.

[Hypognosis]

How ironic to see Cliff Mitchelmore interviewing a 17-year old David Bowie and Bowie goes a month or so ahead of him?