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Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, mostly of 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.

   
Richard Cash
saved 50,000,000 lives     (archived link)

Leon Cooper
superconductivity     (archived link)

Ron Ely
1960s Tarzan

Elizabeth Francis
old person

Grizzly 399
bear

Gary Indiana
author, Depraved Indifference

Jack Jones
"Love, exciting and new..."     (archived link)

Phil Lesh
rock'n'roller, the Grateful Dead

Linda Obst
film producer, Contact     (archived link)

Dick Pope
cinematographer, Life is Sweet     (archived link)

Alan Sacks
co-creator of Welcome Back Kotter     (archived link)

Johnnie Turner
tried to mow his swimming pool     (archived link)

Jose Velazquez Trejo
in county jail     (archived link)

Kendell Williams
forgotten person     (archived link)

   
Previously dead

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

heh dick pope. what a name

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

I'm sure he heard giggles about it all his life. Now he's dead, and still we giggle.