Who do you think died too young?

[ohiosmith]

[RebelOne]

1. He sure did. He was only 22, I think.

[Joe Fields]

4. He was 24. Born, 1931. Died, 1955

He was one of my many heroes.

[MrCoffee]

2. yes. next question?

[ohiosmith]

3. Who else?

[LSK]

5. Carole Lombard

Carole Lombard (October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American actress.

When at the end of 1941 the US entered World War II, Lombard travelled to her home state of Indiana for a war bond rally. At four o'clock in the morning of Friday, January 16, 1942, Lombard and her mother boarded a plane to return to California. After refueling in Las Vegas, the plane took off on a clear night, and twenty-three minutes later crashed into Mount Potosi, 30 miles southwest of Las Vegas. All of the 22 passengers aboard were killed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Lombard

[calico1]

94. I love Carole Lombard. She was such a

natural comedienne. So talented.

Jean Harlow also died a very early death. Unfortunately she suffered from kidney failure at a time when there was no treatment for it.

[johnnie]

6. Like Dean said..

"Live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse"

[ohiosmith]

12. I think John Derek said it first.

[nosillies]

7. Princess Diana

n/t

[Katina]

8. my brother

48, in an accident while on a business trip. My 9 year old nephew has to grow up without his hero. It breaks my heart...and I miss him.

[Courtesy Flush]

86. My sister

She died at age 13 -- in 1976.

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. Stevie Ray Vaughn

And Pete Maravich.

And JFK.

[LadyAziz]

10. ...

Bob Marley and Aaliyah.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. Jessica Dubroff... the 7 year old girl who was going to pilot a plane

across country. :(

[johnnie]

13. This guy

I always wonder what he would have done had he lived. He was an innovator for sure.

[idgiehkt]

14. Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin

so many names I could list.

[hotforteacher]

15. Johnny Cash

[Avalux]

16. This guy.

Had a lot of promise; we'll never know what he could have done.

[ThomCat]

21. Who is that?

:shrug:

[Avalux]

26. River Phoenix

August 23, 1970 - October 31, 1993

23 years old, died from drug-induced heart failure.

[ThomCat]

28. I didn't recognize him.

He was an awesome actor. I was very sad when I heard he had died, and how.

[Avalux]

30. Me too.

And I love that photo of him - doesn't look so much like a kid; very classic and timeless. Considering the body of work he'd done by the age of 23, I feel sure he would have been one of the greatest actors of our time as he got older.

[Broken_Hero]

58. I second that one

I just scrolled down hoping someone all ready posted R. Phoenix...:hi:

[peekaloo]

88. He was my first thought, too (actor-wise).

His brother's doing a nice job though. :-)

[taterguy]

17. Ronnie Van Zant, Stevie Gaines n/t

[Spider Jerusalem]

18. Let's see:

Abraham Lincoln, JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm X, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wolfgang Mozart, Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown...and a lot of other people I can't think of right now.

[cobalt1999]

19. Mozart

Only 35.

[crim son]

22. Only thirty-five, which is young in spiritual/emotional terms.

Who knows what Mozart would have written had he lived to eighty.

[Iris]

20. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcom X

I believe, had they lived, they would have eventually met somewhere in the middle and could have had a lot of influence on our society.

[jeanarrett]

23. My Mom. 39 years old. 26 years ago. Cervical Cancer.

[borlis]

24. JFK, Jr

What a tragedy. I still wonder if he would have become a senator or something more.

[1gobluedem]

25. I agree

Also Phil Ochs. And Andy Kaufman.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

27. Camus, Flannery O'Connor, my friend Jason, Richard Farina,

John Kennedy Toole.

[xmas74]

49. I almost named my daughter Flannery after

Flannery O'Connor.

I knew most people would laugh but that she'd be a big hit w/ high school lit teachers everywhere.

[cobalt1999]

55. Pity he never lived to see the success of his book.

When I finished Confederacy, I was really bummed there was not going to be any more books from such a gifted story writer.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

67. Actually, The Neon Bible, a novel written when he was 16

is available. Not to compare with Confederacy, but it is here:

http://www.amazon.com/-Neon-Bible/dp/0802132073/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b/002-2942597-5125643?ie=UTF8

[In_The_Wind]

29. John F Kennedy

[murielm99]

31. Judy Holiday.

I think she is a very underrated comic actress. She died young, 39.

She was not blacklisted herself, but was called to testify, and was hurt by guilt by association.

[caty]

69. I loved her in

"Born Yesterday". She didn't make that many movies, but the ones she made were gems.

http://www.nndb.com/people/808/000063619/

[caty]

32. Rebecca Schaeffer---murdered at 22 years old.

I loved her in "My Sister Sam".


http://www.poeforward.com/mrperfumery/deadgirls/historical/starlets/schaeffer/schaeffer.htm

[zanne]

33. Western civilization. nt

[Anarcho-Socialist]

34. Bobby Kennedy

Had he lived, a lot of American, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Australian and New Zealander lives might have been saved.

[NNadir]

35. My mother.

She was 51.

[Critters2]

41. I was going to same my mom, too

She was 73, but didn't seem it...and I wasn't ready.

[CrushTheDLC]

36. In the words of the "Jewish Elvis"

DONE TOO SOON
Written by Neil Diamond

Jesus Christ, Fanny Brice,
Wolfie Mozart and Humphrey Bogart and
Genghis Khan and
On to H. G. Wells.

Ho Chi Minh, Gunga Din
Henry Luce and John Wilkes Booth
And Alexanders
King and Graham Bell.

Ramar Krishna, Mama Whistler,
Patrice Lumumba and Russ Colombo,
Karl and Chico Marx,
Albert Camus.

E. A. Poe, Henri Rousseau,
Sholom Aleichem and Caryl Chessman,
Alan Freed and
Buster Keaton too

And each one there
Has one thing shared:
They have sweated beneath the same sun,
Looked up in wonder at the same moon,
And wept when it was all done

For bein’ done too soon,
For bein’ done too soon.
For bein’ done.

[Rabrrrrrr]

37. Khephra, Bill Hicks, Frank Zappa, Hendrix, a few friends and cousins

and my grandfather, who died about 20 years before I was born and I've always wished I could have known him.

[wovenpaint]

38. Eva Cassidy

I recently was introduced to her CD's and was very saddened to hear that she is no longer with us. What a beautiful voice!

[kwassa]

59. absolutely. A major talent.

[ghostsofgiants]

39. Ian Curtis comes to mind.

[graywarrior]

40. John

[retread]

42. Grandma Moses. n/t

[LynneSin]

43. John Bonham

:cry: :cry:

[RedStateShame]

44. Len Bias

If any of you are basketball fans, you know exactly what I mean. If you don't know that much, imagine a player that had the potential to make fans from the late 80s to 90s say, "Yeah, Michael Jordan's great BUT...." Yeah, that damned good. Night after he got drafted by the Celtics, cocaine overdose.



Anyone else who died to young? I'll say me, after I die, even if I die at 377 years old.

[MissMillie]

91. I remember this...

very sad indeed. He was a first-round draft pick if I remember correctly and was dead the next day.

[Mendocino]

45. Woody Guthrie, yes he was 55...

but he was Woody Guthrie!

Robert Kennedy 42
Buddy Holly 22
Duane Allman 24
Bob Marshall 38
Billie Holliday 44

[southpaw]

46. Randy Rhoads

[RetroLounge]

I saw Randy play with Ozzie

First tour, with Def Leppard.

absolutely fucking amazing...

RL

[Mr. McD]

47. Franz Schubert

Died of syphilis age 31.

[koneko]

48. Without a doubt, this guy. . .

He made us laugh, and he loved cats, too

[xmas74]

50. My cousin Katie.

She was about two weeks old.

Otherwise, I'd go w/ River Phoenix. He has such promise and blew it.

Adding more people that no one here knows to the list:

My grandmother. Died in her 40's from colon cancer. I have only two blurry memories of her.

My friend Kara. Lived w/ the secret of what her father was doing to her from the age of four until she killed herself on her 20th birthday. I still cry over her to this day.

Harold. Country road, lots of dust, didn't see the train or hear it. He was 16.

Mike. My best friend. Lost him at the age of 28 to leukemia. He and Aaron planned on adopting a special needs child once he recovered. Never happened.

Beth. Didn't get along in high school but got to know each other the last two months of her life. Died in a fire at age 18.

[Karenca]

51. My husband - 37, my brother - 43, my mom - 56

And

my first cousin, Cathy - 32

and my first cousin, Michael - 42

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

64. Wow. You've dealt with an awful lot of loss very close to you.

Just wanted you to know someone read this post.

[Karenca]

87. Yes, and the deaths all happened within a very short span of time.

A tremendous loss---my immediate family.

Thankfully, I had my baby boy --he is the light of my life.

Thank you so much for your acknowledgement. :hug:

[skygazer]

52. My daughter's father - he was 24

Killed in a car crash.

My friend Scott - 18. Car accident.
My friend Brent - 22. Died under mysterious circumstances.
My friend Mert - 31. Shot himself.
My friend's son - 6 years old. Drowned.
Bear - died of a heart attack. In his 30's.
Don - murdered at 42.
Billy - stabbed to death in his 20's.
Vince - shot and his house burned to destroy the evidence. He was in his 30's or 40's.
Steve - heart attack at 32.
Randy - shot to death. In his 30's.
Jim - died in a freak car crash this past summer. He was 38.
My mother - died of cancer at 50.

That's just a random list, all people I grew up with. I have more dead friends than live ones. Anyone who thinks a small town is safer and more wholesome than a big city has no idea.

[City Lights]

53. My mom (63), and my MIL (49).

My kids haven't had a grandma since my mom died in 1997. My husband's mom died when he was 16.

[Phentex]

54. Jim Henson

:cry:

[bigwillq]

56. My grandfather. JFK, RFK, Tupac

:cry:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

57. Cass Elliot and Keith Moon. Died in the same bed.

(4 years apart)

[HEyHEY]

60. That goldfish I bought last week.

[mwdem]

61. A lot of my brother's friends in Viet Nam during 1968.

Some of mine, too.

[ikojo]

62. Jerry Garcia even though he died in his

early 50s.

Brent Mydland

My brother, Jeff, who died at 36.

[Arugula Latte]

63. Andy Stephenson. Phil Hartman. Paul Wellstone.

many others ...

[YellowRubberDuckie]

65. My dad and my sister.

My sister was just 29 and 8 1/2 when she was killed in a car crash. My dad was 61 when he died of emphazema. He wasn't a youngster, but I wish he'd have lived 20 more years. Maybe, if he'd just never started smoking. And if my sister hadn't been out that night with her stupid whore of a friend, she would be the mommy of a beautiful 4 1/2 year old boy, instead, they're of a casket full of ashes buried in Kingfisher.
:cry: Sorry. I'm a little bitter.
Duckie

[kwassa]

66. Hendrix, Joplin, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Eddie Cochran, Patsy Cline,

Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, Sam Cooke, Judy Holliday, Dorothy Dandridge, Otis Redding, Lenny Bruce, Brian Epstein, Tammi Terrell, Gene Vincent, Duane Allman, Gram Parsons, John Belushi, and a few others.

[GOPisEvil]

68. Nobody famous, but Andy, Scott, Bill...to name three...

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

70. JFK, RFK, JFK Jr., Joseph Kennedy, Jr., Princess Diana, Derrick Thomas

[greatauntoftriplets]

71. Andy Stephenson.

:cry:

[SoyCat]

72. My dad-47 and sister-31

[judaspriestess]

73. Princess Diana

I love her!!

[NMMNG]

74. Sylvia Plath 1932-1963

Author, Poet, sufferer of depression. http://www.sylviaplath.de/

[Spider Jerusalem]

81. And Anne Sexton, too.

[auntAgonist]

75. Jenny Ueberschlag, murdered in her own home

at the age of 18, on Mother's day. Her mother and I are best of friends. I knew that girl from beginning to end. Gone too soon.

My Mother, at age 69. Died 9 years ago August 23rd. Gone too soon.

:(

aA

[ashling]

76. My little brother Glenn

AIDS, 1997 .... 37 yrs old

[bumblebee1]

77. My parents

My mother was 35 yrs old when she died of cancer. My father was 53 when he died of a heart attack. Smoking did not help either of their causes.

Marilyn Monroe- age 36 when she died.

[deadparrot]

78. RFK. nt

[enigmatic]

79. Mia Zapata

Mia was a beautiful soul, and the world is less without her.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Zapata

[fudge stripe cookays]

80. My dad, at 47.

I was 13.

His death fucked up the rest of my life until I finally was able to be TRULY happy at 32. I feel gypped that I had to deal with nothing but my mom, my stepmonster, and their bullshit for years. I should have had my dad and his love.

My brother does not speak to my mom and I. I'm barely speaking to my mom. If only he'd known what those stupid white sticks would do to our family.

[RebelOne]

82. My sister and a close friend.

They both died at 54 from cancer.

[Bzzzz]

83. John Lennon n/t

[MorningGlow]

90. George Harrison too

In his mid-50s, but still way too young. Love the man. :cry:

[HughBeaumont]

84. My grandmother at 49 from lung cancer.

If you smoke, by all means, get help, do whatever it takes and quit.

[KG]

85. Kephra

nostaMJ, god-bush-cheney. :(

[peekaloo]

89. King Tut.

[CBHagman]

92. George Gershwin. John Garfield.

[Control-Z]

93. My mom

28 years old

[calico1]

95. That's so sad.

I'm sorry. I lost my mom earlier this year but she lived to be 82.

[Control-Z]

101. Thank you

I am so sorry you lost your mom. You must miss her terribly. I think of my mine every single day, still.

[raccoon]

96. In addition to James Dean, John Lennon, Keith Moon,

Olive Ann Burns, RFK, MLK.

[XemaSab]

97. My friend Jason

:(

[Vidar]

98. Marty Feldman.

[ohiosmith]

100. :

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Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Igor, would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?
Igor: And you won't be angry?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry.
Igor: Abby someone.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Abby someone. Abby who?
Igor: Abby Normal.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Abby Normal?
Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name.

[Giant Robot]

99. My sainted father

He was 63 in 2002 when he passed. I am still trying to figure out how to go on without my hero.

[BrotherBuzz]

102. Will Rogers

He was 56 year old when he and Wiley Post died in the plane crash, but he should have grown to be an old, old sage.