So many dead people....

[JLynnCarr]

Bill Paxton had a stroke during surgery to attempt to repair a coronary artery. The thing he had is commonly called "the Widowmaker". It's the same thing that caused Alan Thicke's death.

[Nathan]

I just remembered this morning that on one of the podcasts he was Just on he mentioned the scarlet fever he had as a kid gave him some heart damage.

[Trejo]

Conan O'Brien...

fuck.

Details

[B_Metal]

[gravedigger]

Indeed. That one got me.

[Abraham Smashington]

[B_Metal]

Seriously though, major party foul. This thread is for legit deaths not just the long quiet ones that come with no ratings.

[JLynnCarr]

Good golly, Miss Molly! Chuck Berry dead at 90.

[Matt]

Is it wrong that I thought that he was dead already...?

90 is a good run.

[Abraham Smashington]

Didn't he put cameras in toilets?

[Timothy225]

Bernie Wrightson, one of my artistic (comic and otherwise) heroes and an all around comics legend, passed away.

The expressions, the body language, the insane amount of detail, the genius of his chiaroscuro in every freakin' panel of art he did was such an inspiration and conveyed so much emotion, mood, and information, that anybody viewing his art had no need for dialog or text. Dude was that good. He co-created Swamp Thing with Len Wein, pretty much owned horror comic art in the 70s - if you've never seen it, get your hands on his Frankenstein portfolio, rectify that shit post haste - and his artistic presence is all over films and TV shows like Creepshow, Tales From The Crypt, and so many, many others.

RIP, sir, and thanks for pointing the way for an artistic fiend like me.

[Timothy225]

Jimmy Breslin, Pulitzer Prize winning NYC reporter, 86.

[Anderson]

Jimmy Breslin, Pulitzer Prize winning NYC reporter, 86.

Shit.

[JLynnCarr]

Don Rickles is dead at age 90.

[Matt]

Paul O'Neill, founder of Trans Siberian Orchestra, also died. 61.