Death Thread (formerly "Anne Rice died.")

[B E C K]

Roberta Flack, Harriet the Spy, Gene Hackman all deadsies.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

John "He-Man" Erwin and Michelle "Dawn" Trachtenberg bit it, too.

[B E C K]

Yeah, I just called her Harriet the Spy since I didn't feel like spelling out her last name.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

Sorry, but I'm habitually and terminally not "with it".

[jonhammstein]

Nona from Pete & Pete passed away. She was only 39. What a world.

[B E C K]

The more I hear about Gene Hackman's final days, the weirder it all is.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

The last thing I heard was that Hackman had advanced dementia and was bedridden. When his wife died of whatever malady she had, he couldn't help himself (accounting for the horrible state his remains were in), and their dog was stuck in his section of the house and starved to death.

Sad.

[B E C K]

What's the point of being rich if you don't have people regularly around to help you with that shit? I thought this type of death was for the poors!

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

One of the great ironies of life is how many famous people generally go to lengths to get away from other people and how many rich people give up the trappings of wealth to live simply.

[B E C K]

I mean, I get it. He probably had more than one nurse or whoever sell pics of him in a diaper for a few shillings or whatever. But you know what, he didn't look hard enough. There's lots of private people who'd live on your land for free in exchange for getting you Ovaltine and Twinkies and checking in on you once a week to make sure your old ass is still alive. Especially when you're sick and in your nineties and your "young" wife is in her sixties.

Well, this will all be "fixed" when AI becomes smart enough and widespread enough for robomaids.  And then the robots will do us all a favor and go Skynet on the rich people... but that's a tale for another day. Or so sayeth Copilot.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

AI+quantum computing=Skynet