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News of personage deaths is ever perfectly tragic, and often feels similar it came retired of nowhere. I cognize it sounds a spot parasocial, but each clip a major personage dies, it feels similar the full satellite conscionable stops for a day.
So precocious connected Reddit, radical answered the question, "What was the astir shocking personage death of the past 50 years?" and the responses person maine gutted. So let's spell done immoderate of the apical responses:
"It was the archetypal large personage decease that crushed me. I was 12, and I was a weirdo kid who work the regular insubstantial each greeting — my dada took the sports section, and I took the rest. It was a brutal Monday greeting autobus thrust to schoolhouse that day. I enactment arsenic a canine trainer now, and person my ain tiny business. Watching him gave maine anticipation that I mightiness person a aboriginal moving with animals, too. I was terrified of a beingness successful the office, and successful galore ways, helium saved my life. He was and is my hero."
"The time she died was my birthday, and erstwhile we near to spell retired that nighttime to celebrate, she'd said connected the quality that she was fine. We ended the nighttime astatine a British pub successful Phoenix, and erstwhile we walked in, everyone was crying. We were shocked that she’d died."
"I makes you truly beryllium with however fucked up execution is. Like evidently we KNOW it's fucked up, but erstwhile it (allegedly) happens to a celebrity, you get to spot the reactions of their friends and families. You cognize their enactment well. You get to cognize that they had plans for the future. You perceive each astir the weird small details starring to their death. Odds are they're idiosyncratic you liked, truthful you're grieving idiosyncratic you ne'er adjacent met, successful astir cases. Celebrity murders are conscionable so...intimate."
"No 1 saw that coming. It conscionable makes maine impulse people: If thing is troubling you, delight speech astir it with loved ones, and possibly conscionable person a consultation with a therapist. It's not that large of a deal, astatine all, and it tin beryllium a immense alleviation aft taking that archetypal step. Don't deliberation that you person to transportation truthful overmuch value done life. We've got your back."
"Robin Williams was the lone personage decease successful my beingness that stopped maine dormant successful my tracks. I was a small young to recognize the gravity of Princess Diana, and I wasn't calved erstwhile John Lennon was murdered. But Robin Williams — particularly due to the fact that it was to termination — deed maine truly hard."
6. Heath Ledger died successful 2008, astatine property 28.
"His decease broke my heart. I had seen him successful truthful galore things increasing up, and helium was 1 of my favorites. I retrieve him getting formed arsenic the Joker, and feeling similar helium was gonna perfectly nail it. I argued with truthful galore radical connected IMDB astir the casting. This was my astir shocking personage death, for sure."
7. George Michael died successful 2016, astatine property 53.
"Ooooof, that was a WILD one. Especially connected Christmas Day. That voice, those looks, his Gen X power and planetary appeal...it's truthful tragic."
8. Prince died successful 2016, astatine property 57.
"His euphony was heavy contiguous successful my beingness since I was a child; it was virtually the soundtrack of my beingness from mediate schoolhouse on. I was starring a store astatine the clip helium died, and during a break, looked astatine my phone. I saw a cardinal texts from friends and family, immoderate of whom I hadn’t spoken to successful years, asking if I'd heard and if I was okay. I asked a workfellow to decorativeness the time for maine and drove home, bawling."
9. Naya Rivera died successful 2020, astatine property 33.
"One greeting I woke up, and saw the quality that she went missing portion boating. I couldn't judge it. I refreshed Twitter each 10 minutes for days portion they searched for her body, arsenic a precise scarce magnitude of details came retired astatine a time. It was conscionable her and her precise young lad retired connected the water with nary witnesses, truthful determination was a batch of investigating to beryllium done. It was specified a daze arsenic a Glee fan, fixed however young she was, and besides aft losing 2 different main formed members from the show. It felt unreal."
10. John Lennon died successful 1980, astatine property 40.
"The astir shocking decease would person to beryllium John Lennon. A Beatle being changeable to decease by a crazed instrumentality extracurricular his house, successful the mediate of New York, is hard to top. It's each the much tragic due to the fact that helium had conscionable released his comeback album."
11. Chester Bennington died successful 2017, property 41.
"Chester's decease truly got to me. My brothers and I had grown up listening to Linkin Park, truthful their euphony was a large portion of my childhood. I retrieve precisely what I was doing the time I work astir his decease connected the news. Not agelong after, my member got a tattoo to retrieve him by."
12. Chris Cornell died successful 2017, astatine property 52.
"Of each these personage deaths, Chris made maine the saddest. It perfectly broke my heart. I conscionable emotion proceeding his voice. I grew up to his music, truthful helium was similar home."
13. Carrie Fisher died successful 2016, astatine property 60.
"It was close astir Christmas, too. Her daughter, Billie Lourd, has written immoderate precise moving things astir grief connected her Instagram since then. It ended up being amazingly adjuvant to maine aft my ma died."
14. Tom Petty died successful 2017, astatine property 66.
"Tom Petty's decease coincided with the wide shooting successful Las Vegas that killed sixty people, and I retrieve that due to the fact that of it, helium was hardly a notation successful the quality rhythm astatine the time. It was a precise bittersweet clip for the state connected some accounts."
15. Matthew Perry died successful 2023, astatine property 54.
"Matthew Perry was the 1 personage I shed the astir tears implicit erstwhile they passed. He seemed similar helium was doing truthful overmuch better, and galore of america die-hard Friends fans were truly holding retired for a reunion amusement of sorts."
"The extent of my grief implicit him and Luke Perry amazed me."
16. Chadwick Boseman died successful 2020, astatine property 43.
"He was truthful great. I utilized to enactment astatine St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital successful Tennessee, and helium visited the kids erstwhile during the Black Panther era. It was lone aft helium died that I realized helium was visiting them portion battling crab himself."
17. Brandon Lee died successful 1993, astatine property 28.
"Film sets are expected to beryllium safe. Being shot dead portion filming your character's decease country due to the fact that the damned unit didn't cheque to spot if the weapon was harmless was a parent of each fuck-ups."
18. Amy Winehouse died successful 2011, astatine property 27.
"For maine personally, hers was the astir shocking. So often, I deliberation astir each the large euphony she inactive had to give. It's specified a tragedy."
19. Michael Jackson died successful 2009, astatine property 50.
"He died the time earlier my birthday. We recovered retired arsenic we were headed to Las Vegas to celebrate, and that full play ended up being astir Michael Jackson. They brought successful an impersonator astatine 1 of the casinos, and helium was lip-syncing and dancing. It was standing-room only. People were crying everywhere, including the impersonator. We saw the celebrated ventriloquist Terry Fator, and helium said Michael Jackson was the crushed helium started doing impressions. He said helium was his precise archetypal impression, but helium had ne'er performed it due to the fact that helium ne'er felt it was bully enough. But helium did it that night."
20. Kobe Bryant died successful 2020, astatine property 41.
"I retrieve wherever I was, who told me, and conscionable not being capable to wrapper my caput astir it. I've ne'er truly been near speechless before, but that did it."
21. Betty White died successful 2021, astatine 99 years old.
"When Betty White died, they were getting acceptable for her day special. I had besides conscionable seen her successful an interview, talking astir however radical connected the net had been saying she was reported dormant for years. Then, erstwhile her decease was announced, I had this large speculation that it was either that again, oregon she was trolling the world, putting retired immoderate fake information. I looked successful the quality for respective days hoping to find a 'gotcha' from her successful the headlines, but nary specified luck."
"She was successful beauteous bully wellness close up until she passed. Figured she'd person been astir a small longer."
22. Elvis Presley died successful 1977, astatine property 42.
"I cognize that we're alert of overmuch much astir his beingness and struggles now; however, successful 1977, determination was not astir arsenic overmuch media arsenic determination is now. And the paparazzi was precise different, truthful what we saw of Elvis was usually not live, oregon adjacent immediate. So it was decidedly shocking erstwhile helium died astatine 44 years old."
23. Tim Bergling, besides known arsenic Avicii, died successful 2018, astatine property 28.
"Avicii is my answer. I'm a erstwhile raver and nine kid, truthful it was a large daze erstwhile I recovered retired helium was dead. His decease feels precise unsolved and murky to me."
24. Kurt Cobain died successful 1994, astatine property 27.
"I conjecture it wasn't highly shocking, fixed his past of drugs and depression, but I was a teen erstwhile Kurt Cobain died, and everyone — from jocks to goths — was weeping."
25. Mac Miller died successful 2018, astatine property 26.
"This 1 deed maine precise hard, for immoderate reason. I truly liked his music, and helium seemed similar specified a benignant and comic soul. He was truly talented. I sometimes rewatch interviews connected YouTube and stuff. It's truthful sad."
"There are moments wherever I inactive can’t judge it."
26. Steve Jobs died successful 2011, astatine property 56.
"His decease was shocking, due to the fact that helium had infinite resources but couldn't cheat death."
27. Aaliyah died successful 2001, astatine property 22.
"I liked her euphony and truly fancied her astatine the time. I consciousness similar she could person made it overmuch further than she already did. She died astatine the apical arsenic well."
28. Bob Saget died successful 2022, astatine property 65.
"Bob Saget slipping, hitting his head, and past dying successful his slumber astir apt reasoning his caput wounded wasn't that atrocious is 1 of the deaths that has stuck with me."
29. Jim Henson died successful 1990, astatine property 53.
"For maine arsenic a teen, it was Jim Henson. He was conscionable a small older than my parents, and his decease was conscionable truthful wholly retired of the blue. Plus, a steadfast 50-ish-year-old antheral dying from a bacterial infection was conscionable truthful random. He was truthful beloved, and truthful talented. We should've had galore much years of The Muppets with him inactive astatine the helm."
30. Anne Heche died successful 2022, astatine property 53.
"I had nightmares astir Anne Heche. Then I woke up, and was shocked to spot each the footage related to the accident, including her struggling to get disconnected the stretcher aft she was freed from the car. A horrific death."
31. John F. Kennedy Jr. died successful 1999, astatine property 38.
"I cognize it's travel backmost astir again owed to the caller TV amusement Love Story, but I honestly deliberation it's JFK Jr. it was specified a tragedy, particularly aft each that had happened to his family. Unfinished history, and it truly felt untimely."
32. Brittany Murphy died successful 2009, astatine property 32.
33. Catherine O'Hara died successful 2026, astatine property 71.
"She was a supremely comic Moira Rose successful Schitt's Creek, and an implicit comedic genius."
34. Cameron Boyce died successful 2019, astatine property 20.
"Disney Channel kids were perfectly gutted the time Cameron died. I retrieve feeling similar I got the upwind knocked retired of maine erstwhile I recovered out, and I don't deliberation I'll ever really travel to presumption with it. He was truthful young, truthful talented, and genuinely seemed similar specified a fantastic person."
–Me, @abbyzinman on BuzzFeed
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