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Obituaries for 2023
Cyber Liberty:
--- Quote from: libertybele on June 10, 2023, 07:25:52 pm ---Well he now faces his maker.
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Let us hope that in prison, he prayed fervently for Our Fathers forgiveness. :0001:
Kamaji:
Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi dead at 86
By Associated Press
June 12, 2023
Silvio Berlusconi, 86, the boastful billionaire media mogul who was Italy’s longest-serving premier despite scandals over his sex-fueled parties and allegations of corruption, died Monday, according to his television network.
Mediaset announced his death with a smiling photo of the man on its homepage and the headline: “Berlusconi is dead.”
Berlusconi was hospitalized on Friday for the second time in months for treatment of chronic leukemia.
He also suffered over the years from heart ailments, prostate cancer and was hospitalized for COVID-19 in 2020.
A onetime cruise ship crooner, Berlusconi used his television networks and immense wealth to launch his long political career, inspiring both loyalty and loathing.
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Source: https://nypost.com/2023/06/12/silvio-berlusconi-italys-former-prime-minister-dead-at-86/
mountaineer:
Actor Treat Williams dies at 71 after motorcycle accident
The actor's work spanned stage, film and television, from the Broadway production "Grease" to the film "Hair" and the series "Everwood."
June 12, 2023, 10:57 PM EDT / Updated June 13, 2023, 12:30 AM EDT
By Diana Dasrath and Dennis Romero
Treat Williams, a star of stage, television and film, has died in a motorcycle accident, his family said Monday evening. He was 71.
"It is with great sadness that we report that our beloved Treat Williams has passed away tonight in Dorset, Vermont after a fatal motorcycle accident," his family said in a statement. "As you can imagine, we are shocked and greatly bereaved at this time."
Vermont State Police said in a statement that Williams was critically injured in Dorset about 4:53 p.m. Monday when a Honda SUV turned in front of him, ending in a collision that threw Williams from his 1986 Honda motorcycle.
He was taken to Albany Medical Center in Albany, New York, where he was pronounced dead, state police said. ... NBC News
Gefn:
Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89
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Cormac McCarthy, the formidable and reclusive writer of Appalachia and the American Southwest, whose raggedly ornate early novels about misfits and grotesques gave way to the lush taciturnity of “All the Pretty Horses” and the apocalyptic minimalism of “The Road,” died on Tuesday at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 89.
Knopf, his publisher, said in a statement that this son, John, had confirmed the death.
Mr. McCarthy’s fiction took a dark view of the human condition and was often macabre. He decorated his novels with scalpings, beheadings, arson, rape, incest, necrophilia and cannibalism. “There’s no such thing as life without bloodshed,” he told The New York Times magazine in 1992 in a rare interview. “I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/books/cormac-mccarthy-dead.html
berdie:
McCarthy was a good, if somewhat dark, author.
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