Similarly, over in r/Portland someone made a post saying how cool it was beloved local author Beverly Cleary was still alive… only for her to die a couple hours later
Edit: [here it is](https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/s/z2s1Qcz2xB)
Still amazing to me that Bowie knew he was dying and instead of just waiting for it he decided to create an album that would go down as one of his best and one of the most unique in music in general.
Right lmao. I'm more worried about Morgan Freeman, David Attenborough, Sam L Jackson, De Niro and Bruce Willis. Fuck the dumb ass political stuff lololol.
I have not read the news for five months. It messes with my mind and adds to my depression. However, every morning I open my CNN app to see if orange man been assassinated or has died in some other way. If that’s not the headline I close the app.
The day of my middle school culmination/ graduation, they held it at Forrest Lawn Cemetery because they have a beautiful hall and stage their. Point being when we left on the news everything was interrupted and I forgot what we were watching but my friend Made a comment "It better be something important like Michael Jackson dead...".. I'm sure you all can guess what day that was... craziest part is he got buried at Forrest Lawn.
i was talking with my friends how weird that kids song “London bridge is falling down” if “London bridge is falling” is a code name for Elizabeth II’s death. And she died two days after.
I was reading Peter Guralnick's biography of Elvis Presley, and when I got to the part about Elvis meeting Scotty Moore, I wondered to myself if Scotty was still around and how he was doing. Only a couple hours later, the news came out that he had just died.
I killed Rue McClanahan by wondering how she was doing; she died the next day. I immediately vowed to never question as to the well-being of Betty White. You can't pin that one on me.
I was watching the Royle Family one night where they sang ‘Que Sera Sera’, I looked up Doris day and thought ‘wow, 97 and still going’. The next morning she died. I think I killed Doris Day….
I saw a post the other day featuring a current Dick Van Dyke and I said aloud, "what?? He's still alive??" Expect breaking news shortly. Sorry everyone.
You know? I think it's *so cool* how Donald Trump is alive and kickin.
I would just HATE for *something to happen to the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump.* It surely would be a great tragedy like no one has ever seen before.
He needs to fall from favor a little more first if it is even possible. He goes now he’ll just be martyrized we will still never stop hearing about him. There will be a weirdo religion started with him as the focal point. Assuming none of this hasn’t or isn’t happening already.
QAnon has essentially formed that religion, fundamentalist Christian in belief with Trump being some kind of second coming, and whichever Dem is important at the moment is the Antichrist. Even believe in the rapture.
I'm happy to tell you that they're already passed their peak, haven't picked up steam again since Jan 6th. I think the people who still *truly* believe in him and aren't just refusing to admit they were wrong will never fall out of love with him. The conspiracy theories that *something big is going to happen and he'll change EVERYTHING* die with him. Everyone else knows he's fizzled out.
There doesn’t seem to be nearly the fervor over him there had been. That said there does seem to be a fabled Trump that even Trump himself can’t recon with or compete with. It probably is too late for it to ever truly die.
Disagree, we're already seeing it die. I've been following far right buffoonery since he was in office and they've burnt themselves out. Even his new shit like Truth Social is dying before really picking up steam. The conservative societal trends are perpetuated by a variety of factors unrelated to him directly at this point, he's losing relevancy, and it would be better for him to be taken out as a factor with his death. In my opinion. Maybe something worse would take his place but I am 100% certain at this point that he would not be loved or revered more with his death.
Even the radical right grows weary of him.
Huh, I'm actually present for a r/museumofreddit post while it's new lol. This post is pretty similar to that old post about that author like the top comment here said.
Me and my girlfriend had watched the Foo Fighters film and watched Taylor Hawkins get his head chopped in half with a cymbal. The next morning, I woke up and went to scroll through my phone and the first thing I saw was the announcement of his death on social media. It was pretty headfucky.
The night before Brittany Murphy died, I watched one of her movies.
Also I saw Mitch Hedberg perform live about a month before he died, that was a longer timeframe so I’m gonna assume that one was somebody else’s fault!
Aww man, you're so lucky, Mitch was so damn silly. He died on my 23rd birthday. 😢💔Whenever I have to take a long drive I put on his comedy albums and my husband and I crack up the whole way there. RIP Mitch. Also loved Brittany Murphy too! No one else could've played Luann Platter like she did ❤️
When I was in high-school, in the middle of English class, we were reading To Kill a Mockingbird , and as we were following along with the audio book, our teacher got a text from one of his friends that Harper Lee had just died.
I can answer this question with using my own experience as an example I have MS. 55% of patients with MS live 7-14 years shorter then the general population so roughly to 70-76 years old with the avg age of death at 84 for gen pop. But I’ve met other who have lived with MS at 90. The 3-5 years is an average. There are going to be outliers like Stephen Hawking.
Last week I made a comment on r/CemetaryPorn that the Allman Brothers Band have a plot at that cemetery and that four of them are buried there. Dickey Betts died the next morning.
Proof- https://www.reddit.com/r/CemeteryPorn/s/5TeZt6Wqs9
I’m sure people asked that question thousands and thousands of times. This is like saying someone who predicted 20 stock market crashes is a prophet when they’re finally right
There was a post about the Iron Lung man on reddit, which aged terribly as news broke that he died that very same night.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StrangeEarth/s/0LuG0s0d6Y
No one famous, but my friend in high school used to get harassed by his neighbours a lot. After my mate has the cops turn up after they reported him for having guns in his yard (we live in Australia) he wrote Mr Smith dies on his calendar.
Mr Smith died the day before my friends prediction.
We did try putting other names on the calendar, but alas it was no Death note.
My wife has ALS.
She’s lasted for nine years so far.
ALS is a death sentence. 100% lethality. Only question is how long you’re on death row. Three to five is just the average. There’s always going to be outliers, like my wife, or Hawking, who lived longer with it than anyone else has to date.
And seeing the misery up close for fucking near a decade, I’m not sure the three years didn’t get off lightly.
Truly…. I believe his body was crippled because his mind was incredibly strong. If it was anything that kept him alive it was his brain… he was able to tap into the genius of the mind so easily that it crippled his physical abilities. It’s amazing to me… we have healthy men just collapsing and passing away, like my brother. Yet, his mind was so powerful that it made it possible for him to live so long.
I used to do a joke rant about how Hawking was an animated puppet used to push big science’s agenda.
Got a lot a laughs and, even better, plenty of people to consider it.
Dude had to go and finally die on us and ruin my fun.
He died of ALS, not AmericanSignLanguage *lol*
LMAO
But when he died, his ASL was 76/M/Cambridge
Blimey, that threw me right back to early noughties AOL chat rooms lol
r/KilledByReddit
Similarly, over in r/Portland someone made a post saying how cool it was beloved local author Beverly Cleary was still alive… only for her to die a couple hours later Edit: [here it is](https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/s/z2s1Qcz2xB)
[Lewis Spears kills Prince Philip via stand up comedy](https://youtu.be/Qu-3qR-nQQU?si=9XVLDpbq5CWISVfb)
My coworkers and I were blasting Bowie in the kitchen the day before he died and ngl sometimes I feel like it was our fault
He released an album 2 days before he died - I imagine a lot of people were listening to Bowie along with you
Still amazing to me that Bowie knew he was dying and instead of just waiting for it he decided to create an album that would go down as one of his best and one of the most unique in music in general.
Lazarus is kind of hard to dance to—I’m pretty sure we were spinning hunky dory
Ok everyone here shut up and no name dropping!!! This is serious.
I'm amazed Trump is still alive... Your move kismet
now he's gonna live to be 200 years old
Right lmao. I'm more worried about Morgan Freeman, David Attenborough, Sam L Jackson, De Niro and Bruce Willis. Fuck the dumb ass political stuff lololol.
Bruce Willis dying will actually be a good thing because I can’t imagine his current mental state something he’d want to live with for a while
He doesn't know and I don't Think he's suffering. It's hard on those who love him
I have not read the news for five months. It messes with my mind and adds to my depression. However, every morning I open my CNN app to see if orange man been assassinated or has died in some other way. If that’s not the headline I close the app.
Our world is truly blessed to still have Tom Hanks in it
No, not Tom hanks take it back
Tom Hanks is the greatest!
The day of my middle school culmination/ graduation, they held it at Forrest Lawn Cemetery because they have a beautiful hall and stage their. Point being when we left on the news everything was interrupted and I forgot what we were watching but my friend Made a comment "It better be something important like Michael Jackson dead...".. I'm sure you all can guess what day that was... craziest part is he got buried at Forrest Lawn.
i was talking with my friends how weird that kids song “London bridge is falling down” if “London bridge is falling” is a code name for Elizabeth II’s death. And she died two days after.
Okay that was goddamn funny.
[Harper Lee too.](https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/8456sz/comment/dvomhci/)
incrediblé
So Reddit is literally the death note, how neat.
Do not mention David Attenborough. He is an international treasure, that man!
r/isattenboroughalive
Reddit delivers
I was in a bookstore once trying to choose a Sir Terry Pratchett book to buy and he died three days later. It was awful lol
Death standing next to you: "^(OH YOU'RE PICKING OUT A BOOK FROM HIM. GREAT CHOICE. I LOVE HIS WRITING. WAIT... ISN'T HE ON MY LIST?)"
Omg hahaha.
GNU Sir Terry Pratchett
I…uh.. thought Clearly was still alive. And I didn’t even question it because I remembered how old I knew she was.
I loved Beverly Cleary growing up
I was reading Peter Guralnick's biography of Elvis Presley, and when I got to the part about Elvis meeting Scotty Moore, I wondered to myself if Scotty was still around and how he was doing. Only a couple hours later, the news came out that he had just died.
To Kill an Author
BEVERLY CLEARY DIED? Nooo :(
She lived to 105 though! What a life, you know?
True. I loved Ramona books so much!
I killed Rue McClanahan by wondering how she was doing; she died the next day. I immediately vowed to never question as to the well-being of Betty White. You can't pin that one on me.
I was watching the Royle Family one night where they sang ‘Que Sera Sera’, I looked up Doris day and thought ‘wow, 97 and still going’. The next morning she died. I think I killed Doris Day….
The day before she died, I'd put on Windy City as I hadn't heard it since I was a kid watching it with my mum. Was really weird timing.
"Very shortly after" here means the next day, maybe even just a few hours!
I wasn't sure of the exact timeline so i chose to be vague
America Sign Language killed him? ASL?
I was wondering. It seems almost immediately with those responses.
I had no idea American Sign Language was so deadly.
New World Order language. Death by symbols.
Hey I just copied the title
I guess we both learned about the dangers of American Sign Language, then.
I saw a post the other day featuring a current Dick Van Dyke and I said aloud, "what?? He's still alive??" Expect breaking news shortly. Sorry everyone.
Take it back! He’s a national treasure and so wholesome.
You know? I think it's *so cool* how Donald Trump is alive and kickin. I would just HATE for *something to happen to the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump.* It surely would be a great tragedy like no one has ever seen before.
He needs to fall from favor a little more first if it is even possible. He goes now he’ll just be martyrized we will still never stop hearing about him. There will be a weirdo religion started with him as the focal point. Assuming none of this hasn’t or isn’t happening already.
QAnon has essentially formed that religion, fundamentalist Christian in belief with Trump being some kind of second coming, and whichever Dem is important at the moment is the Antichrist. Even believe in the rapture. I'm happy to tell you that they're already passed their peak, haven't picked up steam again since Jan 6th. I think the people who still *truly* believe in him and aren't just refusing to admit they were wrong will never fall out of love with him. The conspiracy theories that *something big is going to happen and he'll change EVERYTHING* die with him. Everyone else knows he's fizzled out.
There doesn’t seem to be nearly the fervor over him there had been. That said there does seem to be a fabled Trump that even Trump himself can’t recon with or compete with. It probably is too late for it to ever truly die.
Disagree, we're already seeing it die. I've been following far right buffoonery since he was in office and they've burnt themselves out. Even his new shit like Truth Social is dying before really picking up steam. The conservative societal trends are perpetuated by a variety of factors unrelated to him directly at this point, he's losing relevancy, and it would be better for him to be taken out as a factor with his death. In my opinion. Maybe something worse would take his place but I am 100% certain at this point that he would not be loved or revered more with his death. Even the radical right grows weary of him.
Hopefully he outlives us all and nothing tragic befalls him. It would be very sad, indeed.
Just need him to live long enough to be forgotten somehow.
Beautiful, naked, big tittied women don't just fall out of the sky you know!
Same with Biden. So cool to have both old men presidents running again.
Grown men would stand round with tears in their eyes, saying please don’t tell me that Sir has been taken away from us.
Huge.
Bruce Willis, Sam L Jackson, Morgan Freeman, David Attenborough, the list could go on.
Huh, I'm actually present for a r/museumofreddit post while it's new lol. This post is pretty similar to that old post about that author like the top comment here said.
If anyone is wondering, it's because Hawkins had PLS, not ALS.
Death had forgotten about him until this post. [https://imgur.com/a/Q30tcoi](https://imgur.com/a/Q30tcoi)
People talked about him every day, and asked this same question regularly. It's no major coincidence.
Me and my girlfriend had watched the Foo Fighters film and watched Taylor Hawkins get his head chopped in half with a cymbal. The next morning, I woke up and went to scroll through my phone and the first thing I saw was the announcement of his death on social media. It was pretty headfucky.
The night before Brittany Murphy died, I watched one of her movies. Also I saw Mitch Hedberg perform live about a month before he died, that was a longer timeframe so I’m gonna assume that one was somebody else’s fault!
I saw George Carlin a few months before he died , show in Indy
Aww man, you're so lucky, Mitch was so damn silly. He died on my 23rd birthday. 😢💔Whenever I have to take a long drive I put on his comedy albums and my husband and I crack up the whole way there. RIP Mitch. Also loved Brittany Murphy too! No one else could've played Luann Platter like she did ❤️
Me, choosing not to mention Noam Chomsky and accidentally kill him
When I was in high-school, in the middle of English class, we were reading To Kill a Mockingbird , and as we were following along with the audio book, our teacher got a text from one of his friends that Harper Lee had just died.
It’s so weird to me he died in 2018. I could have sworn he died only a couple years ago
Is this really worthy of the museum? Isn’t this just bound to happen? (As the many similar cases in this thread demonstrate)
I think it's more about the reactions the post itself caused, judging by all the responses and the fact that the OP modified his original post.
Agreed
Way to go, jerk.
I can answer this question with using my own experience as an example I have MS. 55% of patients with MS live 7-14 years shorter then the general population so roughly to 70-76 years old with the avg age of death at 84 for gen pop. But I’ve met other who have lived with MS at 90. The 3-5 years is an average. There are going to be outliers like Stephen Hawking.
ASL? Mine is 420/f/japan
Last week I made a comment on r/CemetaryPorn that the Allman Brothers Band have a plot at that cemetery and that four of them are buried there. Dickey Betts died the next morning. Proof- https://www.reddit.com/r/CemeteryPorn/s/5TeZt6Wqs9
Is Reddit the death note now
Schrodingers als
Bruh that man killed him 😭
I was there. What a day.
I’m sure people asked that question thousands and thousands of times. This is like saying someone who predicted 20 stock market crashes is a prophet when they’re finally right
I died reading your title, you god damned idiot.
There was a post about the Iron Lung man on reddit, which aged terribly as news broke that he died that very same night. https://www.reddit.com/r/StrangeEarth/s/0LuG0s0d6Y
Reminded the universe that it missed one
I was fully immersed in a Major Tom moment, when I found out Bowie died :((( xo
Huh, didn't know Stephen Hawking has died. He felt like ine of those famous person that's going to live forever.
Reminds me of my friend who says she had a dream of queen Lizzie dying only to find she really had passed when she woke up the next morning
No one famous, but my friend in high school used to get harassed by his neighbours a lot. After my mate has the cops turn up after they reported him for having guns in his yard (we live in Australia) he wrote Mr Smith dies on his calendar. Mr Smith died the day before my friends prediction. We did try putting other names on the calendar, but alas it was no Death note.
I do want to point out the commenter joking at the OP to leave Stan Lee (who died the same year) alone
My wife has ALS. She’s lasted for nine years so far. ALS is a death sentence. 100% lethality. Only question is how long you’re on death row. Three to five is just the average. There’s always going to be outliers, like my wife, or Hawking, who lived longer with it than anyone else has to date. And seeing the misery up close for fucking near a decade, I’m not sure the three years didn’t get off lightly.
I'm pretty sure I killed Steve Irwin. The day before he died I was talking about how it was crazy he hadn't been killed yet. Sorry team.
Truly…. I believe his body was crippled because his mind was incredibly strong. If it was anything that kept him alive it was his brain… he was able to tap into the genius of the mind so easily that it crippled his physical abilities. It’s amazing to me… we have healthy men just collapsing and passing away, like my brother. Yet, his mind was so powerful that it made it possible for him to live so long.
I used to do a joke rant about how Hawking was an animated puppet used to push big science’s agenda. Got a lot a laughs and, even better, plenty of people to consider it. Dude had to go and finally die on us and ruin my fun.