Rest In Peace

[filly]

In the Tip of the Mitt the recent obits take pains to say the deceased "died at home" I guess to dispel any suspicion that they died of COVID.

[AndyinPA]

Off Topic

My dad also always read obituaries. I find them interesting.

The one I found most interesting was one of my cousins. His third wife re-wrote his life so much that if I had not known it was my cousin's obit, I would never have guessed.

[mojosapien]

I got a notice that Brian Wilson just posted on Facebook's ACDII
Just checked Wikipedia.. He turns 80 on 6/20 and is giving the AOK/WP salute.

[RTH10260]

Henry Orenstein, 98, Dies; Force Behind Transformers and Poker on TV
A Holocaust survivor, he started a successful toy company in the 1950s and later invented a method of showing poker players’ hole cards on televised tournaments.

Henry Orenstein, a Holocaust survivor who built a major American toy company, later persuaded Hasbro to start its line of Transformers action figures, and who in his 70s patented an ingenious way to better televise poker tournaments, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Livingston, N.J. He was 98.

The cause was Covid-19, his wife, Susie Orenstein, said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/18/busi ... -dead.html

[Uninformed]

“Joan Didion: US literary icon dies at 87”:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59775127

“Joan Didion, a literary icon who chronicled 60s and 70s US culture, with screenwriting credits including 1976 film A Star Is Born, has died aged 87.
The incisive US novelist and essayist examined the fragmentation of US life in books like 1968's Slouching Towards Bethlehem and 1979's The White Album.
Her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Year of Magical Thinking mined her own grief following the death of her husband.
She died of Parkinson's disease, her publisher, Knopf, told the BBC.”

[RVInit]

[RTH10260]

Desmond Tutu, Whose Voice Helped Slay Apartheid, Dies at 90

The archbishop, a powerful force for nonviolence in South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/obit ... -dead.html

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

[Dr. Ken]

[RVInit]

Another great one gone. Sad beyond words.

[Phoenix520]

The only gift I got this year (besides Sprout’s, which are always sweet*) was the collected works of Joan Didion. I’ve read everything she wrote at least twice but he’s never read her, so we’re doing what we did with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which I’d not read when we met - read aloud instead of watching TV.






*This year, a Billie Eilish hoodie and a Western Termite T-shirt. From the day I moved here and saw their trucks driving around with a three-foot tall figure of this guy firmly attached to the truck, I wanted their creature. He’s very Dickensian. He’s wearing a cravat and a two-toned top hat and sunglasses. His coat is long, he’s wearing spats. He’s bending over, lecturing a dirty rat (I think the rat is smoking a cigarette, I can’t tell) with a wagging forefinger, hiding a mallet behind his back.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Great gifts. We need to see a picture of the Tshirt.

[MN-Skeptic]

[John Thomas8]

That man was an integral part of my youth, and the sound track on Sundays for decades.

This sucks.

[MN-Skeptic]

Just being reported... Harry Reid.

[raison de arizona]

Just being reported... Harry Reid.

Harry M. Reid, a Nevada Democrat who rose from a hardscrabble mining town to become one of the longest-serving Senate majority leaders in history and a political force during the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, died Dec. 29 at his home in Henderson, Nev. He was 82.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ob ... story.html

[sad-cafe]

oh no

[Foggy]

Oh man. McFadden and Reid.

Yowza.

[Azastan]

Just being reported... Harry Reid.

Harry M. Reid, a Nevada Democrat who rose from a hardscrabble mining town to become one of the longest-serving Senate majority leaders in history and a political force during the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, died Dec. 29 at his home in Henderson, Nev. He was 82.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ob ... story.html

Someone must have pointed out that he couldn't have died on December 29th...it's been corrected now as the 28th.

[raison de arizona]

Appropriate. He was always a fighter.

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[AndyinPA]

RIP

He was a real fighter to the end. Pancreatic cancer is almost always very quick.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Great Harry Reid obit. Long but insightful.
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/ ... =emaildkre

[tencats]

Coroner Finds 3 Siblings at Johnstown Home Died of COVID-19
A county coroner says autopsy results in the death of three siblings at a home near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, indicate they all died from COVID-19.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states ... f-covid-19
Dec. 29, 2021, at 6:05 p.m.

A western Pennsylvania coroner said Wednesday that three siblings found dead at a home near Johnstown two months ago all died from COVID-19.

Cambria County Coroner Jeff Lees said he drew that conclusion after autopsies, toxicology tests and microbiology examinations.

The two men and a woman found in different locations on the property had died about five days before they were found in late October, he said.

Ruth Kinsey, 68, was on the kitchen floor. Richard Kinsey, 70, was in a living room chair. Donald Kinsey, 72, was found in bed in a camper inside a barn on the property.

“They were people that were sick,” Lees said. “Whether or not they were tested I don’t know, I can’t determine that at this point in time.”

Lees said he also does not know their vaccination status.

Their bodies were discovered after authorities were asked to check on their welfare.

[Foggy]