Just Dead Celebrity Express Thread !

[Mr Moofo]

Claes Oldenburg. (No, he wasn't in Kraftwerk ).

Pop Art Painter - a bit before Warhol, if I remember correctly

[Mr Moofo]

Claes Oldenburg. (No, he wasn't in Kraftwerk ).

Pop Artist - a bit before Warhol, if I remember correctly

[Count Steer]

Claes Oldenburg. (No, he wasn't in Kraftwerk ).

Pop Art Painter - a bit before Warhol, if I remember correctly

Sculptor mainly, big stuff for public spaces but it was his soft drum kit that made me smile originally. I suspect it's where Jeff Koons got all his ideas from.

Most of his work raises a smile, which beats statues of military men on horseback.

[Mr Moofo]

Claes Oldenburg. (No, he wasn't in Kraftwerk ).

Pop Art Painter - a bit before Warhol, if I remember correctly

Sculptor mainly, big stuff for public spaces but it was his soft drum kit that made me smile originally. I suspect it's where Jeff Koons got all his ideas from.

Most of his work raises a smile, which beats statues of military men on horseback.

The Modern Art Gallery in the Centre Cologne was excellent ( Museum Ludwig) - if anyone ever finds themselves there - and they had Claus O display for a while ( okay - poor jobs on my behalf that it was sculpture - bit like Warhol's boxes of Omo - or whatever it was
)

[Mr. Dazzle]

Paddy Hopkirk.

[Skub]

Bummer.

We always called him Paddy Hubcap when we were growing up.

[Wossname]

Really sorry to hear that - he was a proper chap, modest, friendly, approachable, a real gentleman.

[Docca]

Paul Sorvino

[Taipan]

Paul Sorvino

Great actor and singer. RIP.

[slowsider]

David Trimble

[v8-powered]

Bernard Cribbins

[Yorick]

Bernard Cribbins

He was funny and cool.

[Horse]

Nichelle Nichols

Beamed up one last time

[MingtheMerciless]

Nichelle Nichols

Beamed up one last time

“Second star to the right, and straight on till morning”

[demographic]

Nichelle Nichols

Beamed up one last time

Her Startrek name of Uhura means Freedom in Swahili.
89s not a bad run though, same age as my mother who's still alive but its a good run all the same.

[Skub]

I reckon I'd be happy with 89, IME once you're in your late 80's then your quality of life is starting to slide and unless you're one of those exceptions and still running around like a spring chicken then you're going to be limited as to what you can do. Plus I've budgeted for the majority of my money running out in my late 80's and being on a standard UK pension - if it exists by then.

That's my BIL's plan. He's told his weans if he's fit and strong enough,he will travel as much as he's able and spend as much as he can. They are more than happy with that.

My Da was fit,active,still gardening and driving up until he was 90. After that his quality of life rapidly diminished and the last three and a bit years were hard for him. Hard to watch as well.

Numbers don't mean much when quality of life plummets.

[gremlin]

Nichelle Nichols

Beamed up one last time

S'funny, but when I was a kid watching Star Trek, ad infinitum, it never occurred to me that she was black. She was just Uhura, the communications officer with the lump of metal hanging out of her ear.

[MingtheMerciless]

I reckon I'd be happy with 89, IME once you're in your late 80's then your quality of life is starting to slide and unless you're one of those exceptions and still running around like a spring chicken then you're going to be limited as to what you can do. Plus I've budgeted for the majority of my money running out in my late 80's and being on a standard UK pension - if it exists by then.

Numbers don't mean much when quality of life plummets.

This, we watched our old neighbour succumb to Dementia in his mid 80’s which seemed to be triggered by a bout of Sepsis a few years earlier that left him much diminished. Up until the Sepsis he was witty, always chatty and full of life, always planning holidays to Norway and Iceland. Afterwards was horrible to watch. Perhaps it would’ve been kinder if he went with the Sepsis as his decline which he initially knew was happening was very cruel.

[Taipan]

My Grandad was a bus driver and he passed quietly in his sleep, unlike his passengers...

[Pirahna]

Mum died last year at 89. Three last ten years of her life were a bit shit with each year getting a bit worse. The brain tumor op in the naughties was the start of it, she was left deaf on one ear with balance issues and vertigo. Osteoporosis set in and her back started to crumble. Her ankle broke in three places in 2020 and she spent a lot of the year in and out of hospital. In early 21 she was diagnosed with bowl cancer and passed away on October 28th. Thankfully my parents live in Ireland, the care mum received was superb, way above anything the NHS would have been able to offer.