More Departures From This World ......

[wolf63]

Welcome to Friday.

I found these deaths when I was surfing around the internet earlier.

Larry Drake from LA Law has died at the age of 66
http://tvline.com/2016/03/17/larry-drake-dead-la-law-star-dies/

This lad was only 30
https://www.racing.com/news/2016-03-16/better-loosen-up-passes-away

Robert Horton from Wagon Train
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Robert-Horton-91-Wagon-Train-actor-6894461.php

Footballer Billy Ritchie
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport
/14338860.Former_Rangers_keeper_Billy_Ritchie_dies_aged_79/


Tomorrow is Caturday :-)

[wolf63]

Surely I can't be the only one who knows at least one of these people - that is a bad sign

[retrocop]

I don't know any of them though I did watch Wagon Train a million years ago.!!! Gil Favour?

[DTCwordfan]

Death comes to us all - that is one sure-fire certainty that we face.

[wolf63]

Gil Favor seems to have left us a while ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Fleming

I liked watching cowboy films and TV but I was too young to really follow them.

[retrocop]

Even got my Rawhides mixed up with my Wagon Train. No hope for me remembering most of these people except Clint Eastwood. Mushie and Cookie.

[bibblebub]

The older you get the more people you will have seen in the news, films, tv etc. and so you'll notice names that won't mean anything to younger people.

[wolf63]

There are quite few famous people in their 70s and 80s these days - it is not surprising that there are so many deaths.

David Attenborough is 89 - he is someone that I respect and will miss. He makes science and nature exciting and interesting for children.

Zorba the Greek (Prince Philip) is in his 90s. He amuses me but the Queen relies on him very much. We will also have the TVs and newspapers broadcasting 24/7 like when Diana died.

[fiction-factory]

Agreed, bibblebub. I tried to make the same point on another thread last night/this morning but you have explained it far more succinctly than I did. In the first 10 years of my life no-one famous died (okay Kennedy was assassinated but I didn't find out until at least 5 years later); then in my teens it was just Marc Bolan and Elvis; then just John Lennon and Sid Vicious in my 20s; and then things picked up pace until now in my late 50s it's someone every week

[bibblebub]

100,000 people around the world have died today http://www.worldometers.info/

[fiction-factory]

Although there are so many deaths every day i read somewhere that the number of people alive on the earth now (7.4 billion and rising) exceeds the total number of people that have died in the history of the world

[fiction-factory]

^I don't believe it though

[wolf63]

If nobody died it would get pretty crowded around here