| What death this year has broken your heart the most?
Posted: 10/29/2009 2:46:52 PM | I don't think any death this year has been more publicized (or exploited) than Michael Jackson. I just saw his movie This Is It today and I was in tears at the end. Amazing how 6 months ago, he was the punchline to every joke and now he's loved almost as much as Jesus. Death changes everything.
Although there have been a lot of celebrity deaths this year, I'm referring to deaths as a whole, like the millions of people who die each day that are reduced to numbers on a chart. I'm sure someone here had someone close to them pass away in 2009 that didn't get the same media coverage as MJ or Patrick Swayze or whomever but whose life was just as important.
That's the important part about death, to appreciate the lives who are here now. | |
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| What death this year has broken your heart the most?
Posted: 10/29/2009 5:23:52 PM | Every death should be seen as an opportunity to appreciate your own life, NOW.
That is how I try to live.
Death is also a reminder that we are ALL alike. We all die, we all feel, we all have a chance to make it to where we want to be.
Make the most of the life you have. That is what you should see from these deaths. | |
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| What death this year has broken your heart the most?
Posted: 10/29/2009 5:26:23 PM |
That's the important part about death, to appreciate the lives who are here now. Hear ye  - I wholeheartedly agree! 
Concerning MJ, however - I add to your sentiment, OP: To also respect, and appreciate, his legacy.
Half of a billion of HIS OWN money he poured into helping, and healing, children, and families in need around the world. And, he did so quietly. His Heal The World Foundation et al -- the man lived his message, and yes... ultimately died for it.
Can NOT listen to "Stranger in Moscow" without shedding tears.
His being a punchline to every joke was the result of the unmitigated ignorance of choosing to believe media bullshit. His parents "Dearest", and LaToya making his home front a hell from literally day 1 -- Chandler, Mottola, Bashir, Tohme, Phillips, AEG, et al. every where else... omg, please. ** Don't get started, Rose **
As to...
Death changes everything
Two decades ago, I had attended the funeral of someone related to a very close friend of mine. The deceased (killed DUI killing THREE others as well as himself) was extremely well established as a violent drunk, was destructive and caused much pain and harm to those closest to him, far from least taking the lives of the 3 loved ones of others that didn't know him from Adam.. and, yet?... At the funeral? ... the same people - family members mostly - that had lived in fear of him, and did the most harm to, spoke of him as if he had been an upstanding stellar example of humanity!... 
My friend, and I, the whole time were  | |
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| What death this year has broken your heart the most?
Posted: 10/30/2009 12:11:23 AM | | Personally, could care less about MJ. I didn't like the guy when he was alive and I didn't shed a tear when he croaked. The only deaths this year that got to me were Patrick Swayze and Farrah Fawcett. I grew up watching them and they were my two favorite actors ever. Them, I WILL miss. | |
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| What death this year has broken your heart the most?
Posted: 10/30/2009 4:50:37 AM |
I'm sure someone here had someone close to them pass away in 2009 that didn't get the same media coverage as MJ or Patrick Swayze or whomever but whose life was just as important.
My mother passed away in June. Her life was more important than any of the celebrities that passed. Not only for me, but for my 5 siblings as well as her 22 grandchildren. Even though she didn't reach the millions like the celebrities, she still left a legacy. | |
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| What death this year has broken your heart the most?
Posted: 10/30/2009 5:10:23 AM | Stephen Gatley of boyzone.. he was so young only 33 and totally unexpected. Tbh it was always inevitable Mj would go in the way he did and it didnt come as a surprise.He was a global star but his death coverage was way over the top for my liking i have to say..
The brave men and women who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afganistan deserve more credit than any of them. thats my opinion.. | |
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| What death this year has broken your heart the most?
Posted: 10/30/2009 5:13:38 AM | My sister being diagnosed with breast and bone cancer this year was and has been the worst sadness and pain I have known. She has just completed her 6th round of chemo and is awaiting a masectomy (she has decided to have it done). Then it's 12 months of treatments for bone cancer (once a month).
My father's cheating and dumping of us when I was small was very difficult and painful too in a significant way but that has been reduced to nothing because he is not part of my life and he means nothing to me and he has been told. The pain has worn off a long time ago.
Some of the relationships I have been in have been heartbreaking (having been abused and cheated on)....but again my exes have been reduced to nothing because they are gone and mean nothing to me.
Pain and sadness can manifest in different forms....it's how we handle such situations when the time arises that matters.....turn a negative into a positive and move on.
While Mr. Swayze's passing was sad I was appalled to find out that during his chemo he continued to chain smoke. I can't understand why someone would continue to abuse their body and not give it a fighting chance. Why bother having chemo for then?
So my sister's illness was definitely the most difficult aspect of 2009 for me and continues to be. | |
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| What death this year has broken your heart the most?
Posted: 10/30/2009 7:37:24 AM | Well I have to say as a family in general we have been very lucky overall compared to some.
MJ's death - never even watched the coverage on tv.
Patrick Swayze was sad - I met him years ago and he was as lovely in the flesh.
But Stephen Gatelys death recently (Boyzone) really hit home. Local lad made good. He never forgot where he came from. But watching the funeral and listening to the rest of Boyzone talking about him made me cry. Still does now just thinking about it.
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| What death this year has broken your heart the most?
Posted: 10/30/2009 7:45:38 AM | Mitsuharu Misawa.
The Japanese pro wrestler whose head, according to the autopsy, "came undone from his spine" after a routine backdrop suplex. He was also the promoter of his company and a key figure in modern puroresu, which is Japanese pro wrestling and still commands respect throughout the world. If you didn't know, those guys basically do it for real.
I loved MJ just as much as anyone else, but I'm a pro wrestling fan. And as a guy who's landed on a ring mat a time or ten, the story of Misawa's passing really hit home. I've taken a backdrop suplex before plenty of times, and the thought that any of them could have been my last just like that... | |
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| What death this year has broken your heart the most?
Posted: 10/30/2009 6:28:01 PM | I don't think any death this year has been more publicized (or exploited) than Michael Jackson
The death of celebrity train wrecks has no effect on me. So to answer your thread subject question: NONE. 
The brave men and women who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afganistan deserve more credit than any of them. thats my opinion..
^^^^^Except what Jellybaby said.
I just saw his movie This Is It today and I was in tears at the end
Pull yourself together, OP.
Amazing how 6 months ago, he was the punchline to every joke and now he's loved almost as much as Jesus. Death changes everything
Are you kidding me?? Death has changed nothing. Jackson is still the butt end of some hilarious moments. 
http://forums.plentyoffish.com/datingPosts12683030.aspx 
As for MJ being loved almost as much as Jesus ... aren't you laying it on rather thick??  | |
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| What death this year has broken your heart the most?
Posted: 10/30/2009 9:35:16 PM | Farrah Fawcett's by far. Hers was overshadowed by Michael Jackson's, and he was certainly an energetic entertainer in his own right (making him Messiah is a bit over the top, but Americans are weak and fickle), but Farrah's losing battle with cancer really broke my heart, because I remember just how vivacious she was in the '70s as the mother of all pinup girls and one of the original Charlie's Angels, and how she stretched emotionally and career-wise throughout her life, a woman of strength, warmth, grace and courage.
Her bright-white spirit also reminds me of my sterling superstar brother, who met a similar end and is grievously missed.
Patrick Swayze too, because he too met a similar end, and because I remember just what a strong spirit he had. His performance in Point Break is a marvel to behold: He plays Bodi, the surfer/skydiver/bank robber who does what he does to show "those dead souls inching along in their metal coffins that the human spirit is alive and well". | |
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| What death this year has broken your heart the most?
Posted: 10/31/2009 4:51:06 AM |
Personally, could care less about MJ. I didn't like the guy when he was alive and I didn't shed a tear when he croaked. The only deaths this year that got to me were Patrick Swayze and Farrah Fawcett. I grew up watching them and they were my two favorite actors ever. Them, I WILL miss.
Amen!! | |
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| What death this year has broken your heart the most?
Posted: 10/31/2009 5:51:33 AM | | my dad passed the end of last year, I was not going to say anything to this but this morning I think about him, we were never close close, but the last few years he was alive, I spent more time with him...and saw more of who he really was, and although he was a doofus in life (and i mean that in such a good way) he was one of the smartest men I've ever known, a doctor who strived to know all there was to know about the human body and how to fix it. he is still alive in his entire family and we all remember him every day. I never told him I loved him enough..... | |
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| What death this year has broken your heart the most?
Posted: 11/1/2009 4:44:54 AM | My mums, shes dying of cancer and due to other family things we've really fallen out
She wont speak to me as I didnt give her enough attention when I was kicked out my house made homeless and lost a 15 year relationship | |
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| What death this year has broken your heart the most?
Posted: 11/1/2009 6:02:46 AM | | the Suicide-death last Month of the former Husband of my Sons girlfriend (mom of my 2 GrandBabies)...she went back to Texas 'to take care of stuff' with his family, and is not coming back, .. i, myself am hurt/angry, my Son is hurt/angry/ confused/ bitter/and in a vortex of anguish... i hurt for her, but mostly i hurt for my son, left alone in the ripple of uncertainty & questions..... | |
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| What death this year has broken your heart the most?
Posted: 11/1/2009 4:31:30 PM | The death of reason, reasonability, REAL morality, honor, justice, integrity and character by the GOP as they kill honest debate and make a sham of what our government is SUPPOSED to do, through their partisan propaganda and politicking.
With all of led by Mr. I-think-illegal-drug-users-should-be-locked-up-for-life-EXCEPT-ME Limbaugh. He LEADS the right wing with hypocrisy.
It's all killing us as a people, and killing the chance we can EVER get out of this mess. | |
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| What death this year has broken your heart the most?
Posted: 11/1/2009 9:45:50 PM | Let me just say to everyone the hardest lesson I have learned in the most unbearable form. LIFE IS FAR TOO SHORT and can be taken at any time, My precious son passed away os SIDS 1/10/2008. So basically for no reason at all, I don't know if would be easier if I knew what took him in his sleep, he would still be gone either way. I don't know if was better or not for me to learn this so young in life or not, but it leads me to plead with the world not to take ANY time for granted and to share the following quotes
"It is not the years in your life that count, it is the life in your years"
"So your sitting aroung thinking about what you can't change, and worrying about all the wrong things, while life is flying by, moving so fast, you better make it count because you can't get it back." | |
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| What death this year has broken your heart the most?
Posted: 11/2/2009 11:19:23 PM | | I am still reeling from a couple of deaths in the last 12 months. One, I consider the love of my life. He had necrosis - a condition caused by the radiation he was given for brain cancer. It was a long, slow and horrible way to die. The other was pretty sudden. There were 2 boys the same age as my boys who lived about a block from us for about 10 yrs. All 4 boys were best friends who saw each other every day - it was as if hey were all 4 brothers. The younger of my sons friends (17) committed suicide Thanksgiving week of last year. One of my boys (19 at the time) had been laid off right before that, so he didn't even have anything to make him get out of bed in the morning. He spent about 4 months drunk and angry. He still has a hard time with it and I worry about it constantly. He used to love action films, but will now leave the room if he sees someone on tv get shot in the head, commit suicide or anything else that reminds him of it. Making the holidays fun and cheerful will be rough this year. | |
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