Brief lives: post a pic of someone whose life was too brief.

[ohiosmith]

[Rambis]

1. Bobby

[ohiosmith]

2. Yep!

[KamaAina]

7. Martin

I hope we aren't headed for another 1968.

[ohiosmith]

9. Too sad.

[stuntcat]

80. yes.

Saturday we're going to see the MLK Memorial in DC, I'm afraid I'll cry like a baby.

[hifiguy]

88. +1

He was my first hero that wasn't a baseball player. What might have been......

[charlie and algernon]

3. Heath Ledger

Imagine the acting career he could've had if given a full life.

[ohiosmith]

4. Nothing short of brilliant.

[LynneSin]

5. I just watched "Lords of Dogtown" again. I love Heath in that movie

One of my favorite movies

[sarge43]

16. He was on his way to become one of the great actors of his generation

He was robbed and so were we.

[Rob H.]

6. Yes, he passed at 62

but Carl Sagan still gets my vote. I loved Cosmos when I was a kid, and it kindled in me an interest in science that persists to this day.

[PassingFair]

8. +1 ...and "Carl Sagan Day" is coming up,... November 9th.

http://centerforinquiry.net/carlsaganday

[Rob H.]

10. Nice! I had no idea!

Thanks for the heads-up. :D

[stuntcat]

Carl Sagan Day !?

Yay, I'm putting this on the calendar!

[Liberal Veteran]

84. That makes two of us. I remember sitting in front of our 13" black and white tv....

.....watching with awe every week on PBS.

Carl Sagan was the best. His books and his productions had a profound impact on how I viewed the universe (not only in science, but history as well).

[Shagbark Hickory]

11. ...

[WinkyDink]

13. A real whippersnapper.

*eyeroll*

[Shagbark Hickory]

14. I'm not sure I understand your remark. He died at age 44.

[WinkyDink]

21. He looks 64. Sorry.

[Shagbark Hickory]

25. :GASP:

:wow::wow::wow::wow::wow::wow:
Oh no you di-int.
:wow::wow::wow::wow:
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[WinkyDink]

12. The most recent:

[Shagbark Hickory]

15. Now there's someone who contributed so much to society.

:eyeroll:

[WinkyDink]

22. Oh, did I MISS THAT PART of the OP?? 27 ISN'T too soon in your opinion, but 44 IS?

WHATEVAH. I'm sure Amy's boozing was a bigger fault than Heath Ledger's drugs and auto-asphyxiation games, e.g.

[Shagbark Hickory]

23. I WAS JUST GETTING EVEN WITH YOU for sending an eyeroll at me!!!

Talk to the hand!!!
eyeroll :crazy: eyeroll :crazy: eyeroll :crazy: eyeroll :crazy:
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[Withywindle]

72. She was an incredibly gifted singer.

It's part of the tragedy that some people just don't care about that and would rather be dismissive of the human trainwreck her life became.


Addiction is a terrible disease, and she had a beautiful voice.

[stuntcat]

83. she had a time and a style that were specially hers

There was something very special in her, it is such a loss. I wish someone could have helped her.

[stuntcat]

82. yah

Sad. I know this sounds selfish but I'm upset about all the songs I would have got, that I'll never have now.

[Auggie]

17. JFK

[ohiosmith]

20. Remember it well.

[Faygo Kid]

35. And JFK jr.

So very sad.

[sarge43]

18. Mozart

[ohiosmith]

27. Indeed.

[kayakjohnny]

19. Jimi...

[ohiosmith]

28. Yes.

[livetohike]

77. Forever in our hearts

:cry:

[Supply Side Jesus]

24. Desirea French

8 years old.

[suninvited]

26. Eva Cassidy

[HERVEPA]

29. Sandy Denny

Sandy Denny

Background information
Birth name Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny
Born 6 January 1947(1947-01-06)
Wimbledon, London, England
Died 21 April 1978(1978-04-21) (aged 31)
Atkinson Morley Hospital, Wimbledon, England
Genres Folk, electric folk
Occupations Singer-songwriter
Instruments Keyboards, guitar
Years active 1967–1978
Labels Island Records
Associated acts Fairport Convention, Strawbs, Fotheringay, Led Zeppelin

[warrior1]

30. Bruce Lee

[hifiguy]

86. Still the finest female singer I have ever heard.

So sad, so young.

How anyone could sing as she did on Fotheringay's version of "Banks of the Nile" at the age of 23 beggars the imagination. Her incredible vocal control and subtlety, not to mention the pure beauty of her voice, was a wonder to hear then and still is now.

[Burma Jones]

31. Mattie Stepanek

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Bh5f-vrzJFM/Ta2uOgl1BxI/AAAAAAAAADM/dIuLAT-46F4/s400/Mattie+Stepanek+Making+A+Speech+At+An+Event.jpg

[woo me with science]

32. Paul Wellstone.

[grasswire]

50. thank you

stand up, keep fighting

[canoeist52]

33. Christina Taylor-Green

[Boojatta]

34. Is 1811 to 1832 brief enough?

Galois

I'm not going to post a picture, but you can see one and read a very short biography here:

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Galois.html

[Major Nikon]

36. Vincent

[dimbear]

37. Julian the Apostate.

31 or 32, not known for sure. My photos of him are too faded to post.

[barbtries]

Bekah Zask

7-6-80 - 7-19-01
my daughter.

[riderinthestorm]

39. Oh Barbtries! Your daughter radiates such light. I am so sorry for your loss. nt

[barbtries]

54. thank you rider

she does.

[JanMichael]

40. she's lovely

Thinking of your family.

[barbtries]

55. thank you Jan.

[Odin2005]

45. !!!!!!!

:hug:

[barbtries]

56. thank you Odin

:hug:

[tavalon]

59. Oh, I'm so sorry for you

A parent should never be there at the end of their child's life. It's backwards.

[barbtries]

62. thank you tavalon

[Hassin Bin Sober]

38. .

nah, just kiddin? could you imagine?

[REP]

41. John Kennedy Toole 1937 - 1969

[Aristus]

42. ...

[av8rdave]

43. Stevie Ray

Perhaps the greatest electric blues artist that ever lived. He added a style and soul to the genre that has never been imitated.

Imagine the wonderful sounds we would hear from so many artists today had he lived longer.

[one_voice]

44. My nephew Andrew...

He died suddenly Feb 2, 2010, he was 16 years old. We later found out it was a heart defect that was never detected. :cry: :cry: :cry:

We miss him so, so much! He and my niece were supposed to start driving together. I don't know how we're going to get from December forward. His birthday is December 10, then we have Christmas, and the entire family is together on Christmas Eve...then Feb..



I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. ~Author Unknown

[barbtries]

57. i'm so sorry.

what a shock, and it's so new. best to you over the holidays. from experience i can tell you they will never be the same. i still love thanksgiving though, though both of my parents (who would also be a fit on this thread, dying at 49 and 54) passed on november 23, 12 years apart. christmas is more of a test.

[Odin2005]

46. No pic, but: My stepdad.

He died of pancreatitis in 2009, he was 48. :(

[Skittles]

53. my brother, in 2007 - he was 48

:cry:

[barbtries]

58. i'm sorry Odin.

that's too young to die.

[Odin2005]

64. Thank you!

[MiddleFingerMom]

47. This man, definitely!!!

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And though it seems an "issue" more suitable for GD mindless "gotcha"
aggression than something usually seen in The Lounge, the OP said
"whose life was too brief"... NOT "who died young".
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Also MiddleFingerMomTom in 1981 at the age of 33... my older brother --
friend, mentor, protector and hero -- still thought of, missed, loved
and "consulted".
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[ohiosmith]

67. Good catch MFM.

:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

48. Husband, best friend, most amazing Dad, rock, my life...my everything~

Those who knew him were lucky to. Gone far too soon. 7/14/1970-8/26/2007

[blueamy66]

60. I'm so sorry.

Handsome man.

[ScreamingMeemie]

65. My tummy still did flip flops when he walked in the door... even after

15 years. Thanks blueamy

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

49. My big brother Charlie.

He was 40 years old.

[CC]

51. The beauzoroni, he might of made the video your kid had

to have one day or who knows what other direction he would of gone but he was supposed to start college for game programming & design in the fall. He would of voted for Gore, couldn't wait to be able to vote and hated Bush.

[grasswire]

52. George Gershwin

1898-1937

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTIyMTI5NDIxNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMTQxNjI2

[AsahinaKimi]

61. HIDE from X~JAPAN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hide_(musician)

[hobbit709]

63. My Donna 7/30/52 - 7/29/09

[Tikki]

66. Jeffrey Lee Pierce...1958~1996

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WsvTN_FAlo

:cry:


Tikki

[frogmarch]

68. Jeffrey Hunter

Jeffrey Hunter, who portrayed Jesus in King of Kings (1961)

He (Jeffrey Hunter) was born November 25, 1926. He died May 27, 1969, at the age of 43.

Hunter suffered a stroke while flying back to the U.S. from Spain after filming Viva America! While recovering at his home, Hunter suffered another stroke, causing him to fall down a flight of stairs and sustain a skull fracture. He died from a cerebral hemorrhage on May 27, 1969.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Hunter

[ohiosmith]

69. First Captain of the USS Enterprise.

[frogmarch]

70. I didn't know that! Thanks! nt

[ohiosmith]

71. No prob!

:hi:

[amyrose2712]

74. Wow TOTAL flashback just now. My mom

had that picture up on her dressing table mirror when I was a wee lil' tot. Is it wrong for her to have a crush on Jesus?

[frogmarch]

89. No. I did, and still do.

When I saw King of Kings, Jeffrey Hunter's portrayal of Jesus almost made me a Believer. At any rate, I thought Jeffrey was hot. Still do.

[Withywindle]

73. this guy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._Boon



I saw one of their last shows, just a few weeks before he died; the Minutemen were touring with REM. I was 16. Still remember it as one of the greatest shows I've ever seen; both bands were at their peak then, IMO, and they jammed together at the end. :cry:

[Tikki]

76. So sad....

So very, very sad....

Tikki

[Tikki]

78. Top Jimmy....even if it....

was...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP1DffjKLs4
"T.G.A.R.K.M."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghP15CSSp90
"Pigfoot Shuffle"...Top Jimmy and the Rhythm Pigs

Tikki

[seabeyond]

75. this is the saddest thread. to all that have lost someone too young... i am so sorry

to see the pictures of the loved ones, the light of life in each and know they are no longer here. and the loss that stays with those that loved them.

thank you for sharing.

:grouphug:

[RFKHumphreyObama]

79. My mother

61 years old, died from a disease she defied the statistical odds she got, never got to see the grandchildren she so desperately wanted to see (missed them by less than one and a half years), cut down in what should have been the best years of her life. Lived every day of her life to the fullest.

If you're talking about a public figure

[Auggie]

81. Steve Jobs, Jim Henson, John Belushi

[Arugula Latte]

85. Elliott Smith

[Arugula Latte]

87. Phil Hartman. A great comic talent.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

90. My big sister, no picture.

Died at age 42 and two weeks, of brain cancer in 1990.

She worked for the head of Pathology, Dr. John Lukeman, at M.D. Anderson Cancer Hospital in Houston, the largest cancer hospital in the world.

I became an only child. That was a very weird feeling. My parents and I were completely destroyed by her death.

[Kennah]

91. Edgar Sulite (1957-1997)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Sulite

Bad-assed motherfucker Filipino Martial Arts master. Died of a stroke at 39. Something of the Bruce Lee of FMA.

I never met him, but I've met people who did. In sparring or training with some of them, I got the living shit kicked outta me. They spoke with such awe, respect, and love for Punong Guro Edgar Sulite.

I saw a VHS video--I think from the late 80s shot in PI--of him training with a cousin. They used sticks and then balisongs. The cousin was a pretty bad motherfucker in his own right. I have never seen live sticks or live blades move so fast and with such precision in all my life.

[SoDesuKa]

92. Larry Davidson, Killed by Terrorists on September 11, 2001

Larry's son Marc, a photographer, has a moving tribute to his father, a collection of pictures of objects Larry left behind in his apartment. Very touching.

http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/09/marc-davidson-artifacts/#comments



You were taken from us, Larry, and we miss you.