Steve Irwin was my first, but Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington back to back definitely got me hard. I choked up when LP played numb with nobody at the mic during their remembrence concert
Yeah, that moment hit hard. I expected someone to come in and sing his part, then… oh. Right. Of course. :(
No never but I know when Jackie Chan passes away I’m going to be really hurt.
Man was my hero growing up with his movies and doing his own stunts.
When Carrie Fisher died, I was very sad and for the next week I found myself rolling back a few tears every now and then. I was a SW fan from a young age and she was always like the sister I never had.
Robin Williams, Norm Macdonald, and if David Attenborough ever dies, that’s pretty much all the light gone out of my life.
Grant Imahara. I don’t have to explain myself with this one. He made me childhood and his absolute inventiveness, curiousity and enthousiasm just was so terrific.
Actual cry? No.
But very close. Robin Williams
Was teary all day at work when Terry Pratchett died
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I was okay that day, but lost it while reading The Shepherd’s Crown.
I was a little sad when I heard about it, as well as bittersweet while reading The Shepherd’s crown. Then I closed the book, curled up in bed and wept myself to sleep.
I’ve found joy in passing his name on to the next generation.
Have you read Shaking Hands with Death? It’s… cathartic.
I have not, but I have it mentally bookmarked for when I’m in a better head space. Thank you for the suggestion.
I knew he was gone when I started reading his books, and still I wept for hours when the realisation fully hit me.
Through Discworld I really felt that he was, somehow, in a way, my friend. And then I finished all the books, remembered he was gone and I mourned him like a dear friend.
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I’m reading through Discworld for the first time now. Terry’s genius cannot be overstated. Each next book is an absolute revelation (well. Eric was good not maybe not a revelation…). The way the characters grow and become individuals, seemingly with their own real lives. It hurts to know Sir Terry will never be able to tell us more about this fantastical, commentary-laden, hilarious world.
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Whitney
Marie Fredriksson of Roxette, especially with the circumstance of her illness.
It was just a kind of perfect music.
Adam Yauch.
Was sad for weeks and took me years to even listen to Beastie Boys again without getting weepy. Here was a guy that was a standard issue kid, making obnoxious music for laughs and fun, that showed the world how to really grow up and mature. We were supposed to get a couple more decades of his creativity and unstoppable kindness before it got taken from us.
I will forever miss MCA
Leonard Nimoy was a pretty tough celebrity death for me. It was like losing a super cool uncle, a person who’d been in my life for my whole life, but hadn’t seen in a long while, was dead.
Yes, hardcore for Steve Irwin. His shows taught me what love is, since I never really saw it at home
Seconded for this. I actually bonded with my partner over our intense idolization of Steve Irwin as kids lol
Alan Turing, they did him him real fucking dirty for way too fucking long
Kevin Conroy died in 2022. I’m not over it.
I was watching American Manhunt: Osama Bin Laden the other day and the details about 9/11 really got me emotional. The suddenness and intensity of the attack, the efforts of first responders and government agencies, and the heroism of the passengers of flight 93 affected me very deeply.
I remember seeing another video once of firefighters hearing the sound of people jumping from the towers and crashing into the roof of the building they were in. Absolutely unimaginable how that day must have felt to the people that were there…
