Obituaries for 2016

[240B]

By Alex Matthews For Mailonline
George Michael has died at his home in Oxfordshire.
The musician's publicist said that he had 'passed away peacefully' at his property in Goring at 1.42pm today.
Michael, 53, had previously battled drug addiction and came close to death after suffering from a bout of pneumonia in 2011.
However, the circumstances around his death are currently unexplained and police are not treating the death as suspicious.

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[Gefn]

This is also in the obits section .....
 

[Oceander]

Wow.

[skeeter]

By Alex Matthews For Mailonline
George Michael has died at his home in Oxfordshire.
The musician's publicist said that he had 'passed away peacefully' at his property in Goring at 1.42pm today.
Michael, 53, had previously battled drug addiction and came close to death after suffering from a bout of pneumonia in 2011.
However, the circumstances around his death are currently unexplained and police are not treating the death as suspicious.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4065534/George-Michael-dies.html#ixzz4Ttn0dOuo
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Dang. Eighties icons are dropping off now.

[mystery-ak]

Dang. Eighties icons are dropping off now.

I'm still here.....lol

[240B]

I'm going to guess that this will turn out to be suicide or drug overdose. Which is sometimes the same thing.


From all reports I have heard and read about him in the last few years, his life was in pretty bad shape.

[EasyAce]

I'll always love these . . .


Wham!, "Careless Whisper"


Wham!, "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"

Even if he might have liked to walk back this lyric line: "Wake me up before you go-go/Cause I'm not planning on going solo."

RIP

[ABX]

I'm so ready for 2016 to be over.

Why can't this year take a Beiber or a couple of Kardashians?

[skeeter]

I'm still here.....lol

I think I still have a FILA tennis shirt in my closet somewhere.

[geronl]

He will be buried next to his career...

[Lando Lincoln]

I'm so ready for 2016 to be over.

Me too.

[EC]

I'm so ready for 2016 to be over.

Same.

And someone else can start the Obit thread for 2017 - it got depressing as hell seeing it pop up in my new replies every single day.

[240B]

Freedom! Freedom! There is only one ultimate freedom.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diYAc7gB-0A

[mountaineer]

He didn't live a healthy lifestyle.  I wonder whether they'll reveal the cause of death.

[MOD3]

Topics merged.

[mountaineer]

More re George Michael:

... A police statement said: “Thames Valley Police were called to a property in Goring-on-Thames shortly before 2 p.m. Christmas Day. Sadly, a 53-year-old man was confirmed deceased at the scene. At this stage the death is being treated as unexplained but not suspicious.”

Mr. Michael’s manager, Michael Lippman, told The Hollywood Reporter that Mr. Michael had died of heart failure “in bed, lying peacefully.”  ...

New York Times

[Silver Pines]

Last night at TOS, they were having a big laugh about Michaels' death...it was joke material to them.  It's true, he led a high risk lifestyle, but celebrating his death is vile. 

I liked his solo stuff, especially "Freedom 90. "

[mountaineer]

I'm part of a "Jesus music" page at Facebook, and this was posted there:

In memory of George Michael, I always thought this was an interesting commentary on God and faith. In some ways it seems critical of God, and definitely of those who consider themselves God's children; but it also seems sympathetic to God in a way.

"Maybe we should all be praying for time..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihfmwtMbcJE

[Applewood]

Last night at TOS, they were having a big laugh about Michaels' death...it was joke material to them.  It's true, he led a high risk lifestyle, but celebrating his death is vile. 

I liked his solo stuff, especially "Freedom 90. "

Their behavior doesn't surprise me.  Since they've gone all ape-**** over Trump, the members have become a nasty lot.  Many of them hold themselves out as pious Christians   Don't know of any legitimate church that preaches such behavior, especially when someone dies. 

[Gefn]

More re George Michael:New York Times

I think we all would like to go peacefully in our beds when it's our time, IMHO.

[Gefn]

Last night at TOS, they were having a big laugh about Michaels' death...it was joke material to them.  It's true, he led a high risk lifestyle, but celebrating his death is vile. 

I liked his solo stuff, especially "Freedom 90. "

You don't laugh about someone's death, that's just not cool. I guess their mothers didn't teach them right.

[Cyber Liberty]

I think we all would like to go peacefully in our beds when it's our time, IMHO.

'When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming hysterically like the passengers in his car."

(OK, maybe I was brought up a little "off".) 

[Sanguine]

'When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming hysterically like the passengers in his car."

(OK, maybe I was brought up a little "off".) 

Some of us suspected that.

[mountaineer]

You don't laugh about someone's death, that's just not cool. I guess their mothers didn't teach them right.

At TOS, it's okay to celebrate the death of anyone who isn't one of them,  especially if the deceased was homosexual.

[EC]

At TOS, it's okay to celebrate the death of anyone who isn't one of them,  especially if the deceased was homosexual.

About the only homosexual I can recall TOS members shouting down all celebration of their death was Freddie Mercury.