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Deaths of Minor Celebrities

My mate is a bit of a chubster, or as he likes to refer to him broad shouldered. It's a bit of a standing joke, a few years ago he was at a theme park with the family, unfortunatly he was unable to go on a couple of the rides because he didn't fit due to his "broad shoulders" :D Anyway, he's not the fittest bloke in the world so I will be mentioning your info to him Derspatz.
 
allican said:
It may be, or maybe it was for someone who couldn't be there. I couldn't be at my mother's funeral - long story, I won't go into it - and was so grateful for a cassette of the service, notes and stories from the people who were there. It would have been nice to have a video.

If it was just to relive it, then it's a little weird to say the least.
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Video-ing it from the back to hear and even see what is being said about the person I understand, it was the panning across the 'crowd' from the front of the 'stage' that I took offense to. I bet the look on my face would not have been that nice to relive. lol
 
Thorough article re Houstons: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/enterta...r-found-in-lungs/story-e6frf96x-1226269149165

... and an article focusing on the drug being pushed legally instead of the street corner, killing celebrities and the down and outs alike no doubt http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/wo...y-houstons-death/story-e6frf7lf-1226269498656

Not only does it cause death, it probably causes memory loss like other "mood stabilisers", liberally being pushed at your local GP, reducing victims to a hazy, zombie like state of virtually no self-awareness which could last decades. Die a slow death of the walking dead or fall by the wayside like Whitney - either is perfectly legal, and can be financed by the state.
 
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derspatz said:
Was it a spa bath ?

Anyhoo, hot bath, blood pressure goes up, brain says it wants more oxygenated blood than should go to feet, puts the body into a faint, head indeed goes lower despite it not being the best location for that to happen. glug, glug, glug, choke, choke, choke, etc.

Bloke at work lost his 21yo son in a hot spring in South America around 3 months ago basically the same way. He had had a few drinks with mates, they left, he stayed to look at the stars for a bit longer, and the authorities fished his body out the next day.

Those warnings on hot springs about not staying in too long are for a reason ...

Not a good idea to hot bath, hot springs, hot spa alone or for too long, particularly in a source of hot water that doesn't cool off relatively quickly making you wanna get out before your core heats up too much and your blood pressure stays artificially higher than normal for too long.

Particularly if your body and its systems have been previously weakend by various kinds of self-abuse over the years, whether it was substance abuse or by being a lyrca clad cyclerrorist 8 days a week or reading too much BTB.

So, if you're looking for a way of getting rid of granny or your crack-whore mum or some of the retirees who are driving you crazy at the hospise where you work, dial up the thermostat and timers on their hotwater system, spa, sauna, or hydotherapy pool. :D

regarDS
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So you are advising to Spa together or in groups, naked?
 
pawlini said:
So you are advising to Spa together or in groups, naked?
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Duno where naked came into things but right now there is at least one particular person a nice long hot spa could be just what Oz needs. ;)


Her: "Tim, I'm so stressed, all my lies are found out, nobody believes me, and I am the laughing stock of Austrayla"

Him: "There, there my darling dools, I've got a nice warm spa and a couple of cans of VB and a "Best of Whitney" CD paying just waiting for your weary and tense old body. Stay in until you are utterly de-stressed"

Her: Aww, thanks Tim, you're the best beard eva ...

Him: I'll be in my shed if you need me ...

:D

regarDS
 
Taylia said:
I am sure that is true. I wonder if with Bindi and family if living in the animal world has given them a different perspective on life and death. I'm sure they have seen a lot of death in their young years.

One person I will never forgive is the so called girlfriend of my husbands father who passed away. Not only from the day he died she call herself defacto, something they would not admit to when he was alive, but that she got her sister to video the funeral. Not just from the back, but from the front, panning the mourners. I thought this was the height of rudeness. :mad:
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Taylia said:
Video-ing it from the back to hear and even see what is being said about the person I understand, it was the panning across the 'crowd' from the front of the 'stage' that I took offense to. I bet the look on my face would not have been that nice to relive. lol
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I video taped my sister's funeral, from the front row. And you know it was the most uncomfortable thing. But my mother asked me to because she knew she wanted to hear what people said, see what people said etc and she wouldn't actually remember any of it. True enough, she didn't and it helped her a lot to have the video to watch somewhere private, in her own time, to remember her daughter.
 
aylaah said:
I video taped my sister's funeral, from the front row. And you know it was the most uncomfortable thing. But my mother asked me to because she knew she wanted to hear what people said, see what people said etc and she wouldn't actually remember any of it. True enough, she didn't and it helped her a lot to have the video to watch somewhere private, in her own time, to remember her daughter.
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If I had known they were going to do it I would not have attended. I also couldn't not believe that we were paying for the funeral and they felt they could do it. I understand why someone might want it, but to me it is not what is done. It is not fair to have your sorrow taped.
 
I don't think he is a minor celebrity but Neil Hope- Wheels from Degrassi died five years ago and it's only just been released :(
 
@ Megan, my mum just send me that link earlier today too (I was a Degrassi tragic).

Very sad, Ma said judging by the Lifeline info at the end of the article it was probably a suicide :(
 
It seems as though there was a mix up with the identification of his body. I don't think he really lived a high quality life at all :(
 
Megan said:
I don't think he is a minor celebrity but Neil Hope- Wheels from Degrassi died five years ago and it's only just been released :(
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I didn't know who he was so I googled. This is just sad :(

Little is known about how the intensely private Hope came to a sudden end, alone and unnoticed. “Everybody falls on hard times,” Boulard said. “Neil had a hard life.”

The star’s struggles with his parents’ alcoholism — his father eventually died of cirrhosis of the liver — were well documented in interviews.

Boulard said Hope’s brother Danny and his wife, Tracy, began hearing rumours of his death two or three years ago but they brushed it off. But two years went by and no one had heard from him. “That’s when we started to worry,” she said.

Boulard said she lost touch with Hope in 2002, but remained in contact with his family through Facebook. When they hadn’t heard from Hope, they called her. Finally they contacted the police in Hamilton.

Boulard said the police told Hope’s family they had a record of someone who had died but the names and birth date didn’t match up. She said the family clung to that, hoping it wasn’t him.

But finally, this January, police confirmed that it was indeed Hope who had died of “natural causes” in November 2007. (The coroner’s office was not immediately available to confirm the details.)

Hope was buried in March 2008. The location of the grave is being kept private, Boulard said.

Boulard said she is organizing a private ceremony, with help from Amanda Stepto, who played Christine “Spike” Nelson on Degrassi, for friends to remember Hope. Hope’s family is planning their own memorial.

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Why do they keep saying "natural causes" with the air quotes.

How terrible that it takes 2 years before everyone goes into panic mode :(
 
ichi said:
Why do they keep saying "natural causes" with the air quotes.

How terrible that it takes 2 years before everyone goes into panic mode :(
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yeah I would assume its a police quote. hardly think its the time and place for Sarcasm.

2 years is a long time, i guess some people like their privacy....
 
Goffy, some of the original stories had a lot of Lifeline information at the bottom which made it look as thought it could be a suicide and then with natural causes having the quotes - it just paints an odd picture.

I am not being sarcastic about anything, I grew up with Degrassi, they were my friends and mentors.
 
ichi said:
Goffy, some of the original stories had a lot of Lifeline information at the bottom which made it look as thought it could be a suicide and then with natural causes having the quotes - it just paints an odd picture.

I am not being sarcastic about anything, I grew up with Degrassi, they were my friends and mentors.
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no I meant, they wouldnt be putting sarcasm in the Article (as that was what I thought you were getting at wondering about the "" marks which is their other purpose...)

I didnt see the lifeline links, it does kind of contradict "natural causes"....
 
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