Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/18/entertainment/glenn-frey-obit-feat/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/18/...dex.html</a> Apparently a multitude of issues, including rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia, was too much for him. He was 67.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Yeah, the crap gangs up on you. COPD, Emphysema, Kidney Failure and Diastolic Heart insufficiency have left me just a fraction of the person I was a year ago. Death doesn't seem like such a bad deal. I only live for my Annie... if it were just up to me I'm ready to go.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo Warm smell of colitis rising up through the air.... Yeah, I went there. 2016 is off to a gawdawful start.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder RT, rather than go all rah rah, I can just say I know how you feel. I won't pretend my health issues approach yours, but I come from a place where it seems like when more and more people you knew are no longer here and you know most of the impact you were going to leave during your life has been done, you get more used to the idea of finding out what's next. No unrealistic wish to live life over again or envying those 40 years younger. Simply a gradual process of accepting mortality.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder RT, rather than go all rah rah, I can just say I know how you feel. I won't pretend my health issues approach yours, but I come from a place where it seems like when more and more people you knew are no longer here and you know most of the impact you were going to leave during your life has been done, you get more used to the idea of finding out what's next. No unrealistic wish to live life over again or envying those 40 years younger. Simply a gradual process of accepting mortality.
Originally Posted By oc_dean I thought we had another "69"er. David Bowie and Alan Rickman both died at 69 .. and someone got it wrong that Frey died at 69. Just goes to show ... even with modern medicine ... some won't reach the average of age of 85 years. So sad about all 3. Could have sworn I just heard of a tv actor from popular tv shows going back 40 years or more, just passed on. Name escapes me.
Originally Posted By oc_dean I finally got over that stupid old adage .. "celebrities go in 3s - to prove some 'God' point." Oh .. the stuff we humans come up with!
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA oc_dean, you may be referring to Dan Haggerty, best known for playing 'Grizzly Adams' in movies and on TV. He passed away in recent days. He was 74.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Thanks Jim. That's who I couldn't think of. Oh .. not to mention Natalie Cole. 2016 has a sucky start!
