Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits for people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks, or maybe give 'em a final fuck you.

There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.
   

• Arthur Bates
cigarettes and methadone

• George Bell
tall

• Nadia Cassini
actress, Starcrash

• David Steven Cohen
writer, Courage the Cowardly Dog

• Émilie Dequenne
actress, Rosetta

• George Foreman
grill

• Scott Anthony Gastal
a tortured, troubled, and difficult life

• Robert Ginna Jr
“There Is a Case for Interplanetary Saucers”

• Wings Hauser
actor, Tough Guys Don’t Dance

• Josiah Hooker
2nd Amendment

• Kanzi
bright bonobo

• Jeffrey Bruce Klein
co-founder, Mother Jones

• Gyorgy Kun
Josef Mengele’s experiments

• Jack Lilley
actor & stunts, Little House on the Prairie

• Kilmer McCully
homocysteine in heart disease

• Charles Medawar
consumer activist

• Ralph Munro
curb cutaways for wheelchairs

• Tuppy Owens
activist, The Sex Maniac’s Diary

• Hugues Oyarzabal
surfer

• Felice Picano
author, The Joy of Gay Sex

• Samantha Richardson
forgotten person

• Lenny Schultz
comedian

• David Sellers
architect of Prickly Mountain

• L. J. Smith
author, The Vampire Diaries

• Larry Tamblyn
rock’n’roller, The Standells

• Guy Thomas
sci-fi fan on wheels

• Slick Watts
basketballer, Seattle SuperSonics

• Jesse Colin Young
rock’n’roller, the Youngbloods

• Anaya Zachary
2nd Amendment

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
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