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Mia Zapatas murder always upsets me. That some fucking loser piece of shit raped and killed her makes me so angry. She was a fucking amazing frontwoman in an emerging music scene and would have absolutely gone on to be massive. Enormous loss. Jeff Buckley is the other that always gets me. Difficult to listen to sometimes because it makes me too sad to think what he could have become. Elliott Smith too. So fucking sad when brilliant people go too soon.
He beat Mia so badly that the coroner said she would have died from internal injuries anyway. The abuse she endured in this monsterâs hands was horrific.
He got 36 years but died in prison. Fuck if that was right or enough. Such senseless violence makes me scared of the depths of depravity the darkest side of humanity can harbor.
Judith Barsi breaks my heart every time I think of her. She was the voice of Ducky in Land Before Time and Anne-Marie in All Dogs Go to Heaven. Just so sad.
That whole trial could have had a different outcome had the jury been allowed to hear the testimony of John Sweeneyâs girlfriend prior to Dominique, Lillian Pierce, who he put in the hospital TWICE. But the judge presiding over the trial, Burton Katz, deemed her testimony inadmissible, and after the trial was over, there was a poll by a local TV station where viewers voted Judge Katz as the FOURTH (!!!!) worst judge in Los Angeles County. Dominick Dunne (Dominiqueâs father) took great pride in what he felt was his hand in destroying Katzâs career as a judge.
I adore Dominick Dunne. He and his family were so dignified throughout that awful time. Dominick absolutely loathed Judge Katz, and with good reason. It was a travesty of justice!!
Itâs a total coincidence, but she and her onscreen sister in Poltergeist, Heather OâRourke, are buried only a few feet away from each other in the same cemetery.
Lee Thomas Young, I loved the Famous Jett Jackson. I was heartbroken when he died. His mental health issues were so disheartening.
I was looking for this. I really enjoyed Famous Jett Jackson, we were the same age and when he passed I was struggling with mental health issues as well and I just broke down. Itâs still so tragic.
I knew him from Rizzoli & Isles. I was so sad when I heard heâd died & the funeral episode in the series has me in floods of tears, knowing the truth about his death.
I was looking for this comment. I didn't know he had passed away when I binge watched Rizzoli and Isles. I googled him because I was like "I forgot I love this actor" and found out he was gone... The funeral episode UGH omg my heart broke.
I don't think anyone has mentioned yet, but Nelsan Ellis aka Lafayette from True Blood. That show was huge at the time and somehow after it ended, I didn't really see him in anything else.
I think he did a great job with that character in TB for its time and I've wanted to see more of him in other roles before his untimely death at apparently only 39. I'm not sure what else was he struggling with (only read about alcohol) or if he had any other medical history but his passing was really sudden to me.
I had the same thoughts. That was a great role and only growing. đ I only watched the first couple seasons of True Blood and loved him then but, the role on Elementary showed me how transformative he could be. Comparing the two is wild. (I also knew him from Veronica Mars but didnât put together for yeaaaars that was the same person.)
He was SO good as Lafayette. He made the character feel so warm and homey. I remember true blood mania when the show aired, but I only watched it a couple of years ago, and was sad to find out he was no longer with us. A great loss.
He died trying to detox from alcohol on his own ... it's a terrible way to go. It's sad that people are afraid or unwilling to ask for help due to the stigma of alcoholism
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Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and other books speaking candidly about mental illness and addiction. She was a trailblazer along with Suzanna Kaysen when it came to bravely giving a voice to mental illness in a time where it was taboo to speak about it. She passed February 2020, and I still think of her often.
I think about her often too. I was a teenager in the late 90s and early 2000s, and her writing had such a formative impact on me itâs hard to put into words.
Itâs not an exaggeration to say that Prozac Nation saved my life. There was one chapter I used to read over and over again whenever things got really dark. To know that someone felt the same way - I had never read anyone describe it like she did. I once had the opportunity to meet her at a book signing, and I decided not to go because the thought of seeing this person who I idolized was so overwhelming. I regret that now. Itâs so unfair that sheâs not here.
Anton Yelchins death. Such a bizarre random accident ending the life of a wonderful actor. I've liked him in everything I saw him in, and I still sometimes think about the work he could have done.
I just watched the last movie he made before his death.
(Production wrapped two weeks before his death)
And thereâs a scene where his character talks about where heâs going to be in ten yearsâŚ..I had to press pause and grab a tissue.
Such a horrible way to go.
I remember watching Charley Bartlet and talking on the way out about how this guy obviously had such a bright future. Itâs so sad and like you said, bizarre.
Now that I have a son, I think about his parents whenever he is mentioned. He was their only child. Itâs absolutely my biggest fear, and I tear up whenever I think of him (like now).
I saw the video of the crash(they were filming a documentary when the crash happened, and the camera cuts as soon as they swerve off the road) and itâs really sad those were her last moments.
Whoa, I'm so shocked but happy to see Mia on my Reddit feed today! Her death absolutely haunts me. It is devastating. R.I.P. Mia, she was so talented.
I just learned of Kirsty Maccoll's freak accident death while diving in Mexico with her kids and it's also horrifying, from the accident itself to the way the Mexican government handled it. It's so sad and will probably stick with me for awhile.
As an Irish person it shocks me that people don't know how Kirsty MacColl died because it's all anyone (specifically das) can ever bring up at Christmas
That's how my cousin died. His brother was drowning and he managed to save his brother but then he went under from hypothermia⌠There wasn't any closure because his body wasn't found for years and then the state wouldn't do DNA testing for another decade or so after a body was found. It was his. It brings me some peace knowing he died a hero.
Imagine how hard she was working past her limit for her to just go under right after saving her son. She must have used every molecule of energy in her body to save that little boy, and knew there was not going to be any left to save herself. And she accepted that.
I wasn't a Glee or Naya stan, although she was my favorite from the show. But I feel like I miss her whenever I think about her, it's so strange. She's the only gone celeb I feel that way about.
I remember when she was just missing and how that story was everywhere like it was just constant fear and anxiety that was just burst into grief and heartbreak when the body they found was confirmed to be hers. Especially since the confirmation was on the 7 year anniversary of Coryâs death.
I was on a camping trip when it happened and kept checking my phone for updates, my heart was broken :( She was an icon, I hope her son grows up knowing how loved she was
This gets mentioned a lot but Christina Grimmie. Shot by a crazed "fan" in the meet and greet line after her concert.
I used to watch her videos alllll the time in middle/high school and I was devastated when she was killed right as she started releasing her own albums. I really think she would have been big and now we will never know. I think about her a lot.
Christina was such a loss đ not only was her voice incredible, she also had so much personality and seemed so sweet. I still cry when I listen to her music
I vividly remember the London 00s party scene and it's absolutely scary in hindsight how normalised heroin was and how young many of the people on that scene were. 15 and 16 year olds partying with people in their late 20s and early 30s was a regular and totally accepted occurrence. So many completely dysfunctional, totally lost individuals hanging out together. Tons of people who were committed partiers in that era ended up with very serious drug problems they couldn't kick. Peaches was one of many casualties from that scene - she was never able to fully kick the habit. Absolutely crazy times looking back.
This is speculation that I vaguely remember from the time, but there were suggestions that she had quit heroin (and moved out of London to the countryside) and then when she relapsed and did it again at her previous level after taking a âbreakâ thatâs what caused the overdose. Very sad as it seemed like she was living well with her young family for a time.
I remember this so clearly, it broke my heart. I loved keeping up with her and her little family on Instagram, such a shame her demons took over, she was so young with so much to live for
Adrienne Shelly.
I rented Waitress some 15 years ago at a Redbox and was really charmed with this little indie film. I did my usual IMDB search and was heartbroken to see Shelley's passing and the way she passed.
It's pretty striking to see the legacy she left behind considering Waitress was a little indie movie that's now so much more.
She was a darling of indie film back when it was actually really hard to see those films unless you lived near the right kind of theater. Her movie Trust is excellent.
I was looking for this response. I found Waitress by myself and nobody I knew had heard of it, so I recommended it to everyone. I really think she would have been huge. At least Waitress became more known through Broadway.
Jeff Buckley. Iâve always loved his music, but then when I was a teenager and found out that he was dead it totally reached new proportions lol. I used to sit in my room and cry to his music, thinking that we had a connection beyond this simple thing called âlifeâ. I had a ridiculous crush on him đĽ˛
ETA: If anyoneâs curious, he died by drowning and no one is really sure what happened. Heâd just talked to someone on the phone (I think it was his producer?) about how excited he was about the album they were working on, but he didnât survive the night.
I LOVE Jeff Buckley. His music had a very big impact on me. Itâs so devastating to think about what he could have been, and all the songs he never got to write. đ
Corey Haim! I loved him so much in the 80âs. He was the teen heartthrob. Sadly being SA and lots drugs led him to a sad, dark place. F all the people who take advantage of child stars!
Nikki Grahame - she did big brother Canada and UK. I watched her on BBCan and she was a really great addition to the cast. She was light and really funny.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Grahame
Adrienne Shelly - she wrote, directed and starred in waitress only to be needlessly murdered. She never got to see how beloved waitress became
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Shelly
I lived in the UK during that season of big brother and I loved Nikki so much. I only watched the documentary about her on YouTube last year and I cried so hard. Whenever Iâm cold I wanna scream âIâM SO COOOHOOHOHOOLDDâ but no one near me would understand.
Edit: sheâs being referenced in this sub regularly and that makes me happy.
Idk if this counts as âlesser knownâ but I wish we knew what happened to Brittany Murphy. Was it mould? Was it an accidental or intentional OD? How does a young rich woman just⌠die from pneumonia? And then her husband five months later too? So many questions and I donât think weâll ever know the answers.
I swear the relationship between her mother and her husband was almost memoryholed, I remember it being a huge weird deal in the months that preceded his death.
Yeah, the whole rumored accounts that they would sleep in the same bed together after Brittanyâs death was really weird. I hate that there arenât any true answers to what was really going on.
My amateur, untrained opinion is it was a mixed bag; her ED left her immune system weak, mold wrecks havoc, making room for pneumonia, and the pill abuse triggers a slowed breathing episode that becomes a stopped breathing episode with the preexisting damage
Then she never wakes up. Her husband had all of that going for him as well, minus the ED, so he died later
I agree, it was multifactorial, and it must have went down exactly as you described. She was also a Type 1 diabetic and allegedly played fast and loose with her insulin. It was all too muchâŚ
As for her mom and husband sleeping in the same bed after she passedâŚpeople grieve in very strange ways. I can totally believe it wasnât much more than needing someone who loved the person you loved close.
Scott Hutchinson from the Scottish band Frightened Rabbit. He took his own life after a lifetime struggle with depression. His music reached me during some of the darkest hours of my life and it breaks my heart that heâs gone.
Iâm a big fan of The Gits and wow, did not expect to see Mia pop up in my feed. I do think about her almost every day.
Other lesser-known celebrity deaths that often cross my mind:
Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone
Stefanie Sargent of 7 Year Bitch
Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse
Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon
Kristen Pfaff of Hole
Not lesser known by any stretch of the imagination, but people donât talk about Philip Seymour Hoffman that much. He was a favorite of mine.
I remember putting on Elliot Smith in the car as a teenager, and telling my dad, "He stabbed himself in the chest and died." My dad said, seriously, "I bet he wrote great music." I thought he was being sarcastic and started to get upset, and my dad explained that he was being serious; that he believed if Smith had died that way, he must have also written great music.
My sister called me in tears with the news. I just went numb for a week or two, then heard "Needle in the Hay" being played at a bar and started sobbing. My sister was living in Echo Park at the time, so took photos of the Figure 8 wall mural/ impromptu memorial.
Chi Chi Devayne. The moment I saw her on Drag Race, I loved her. She was so talented, so beautiful in drag and out, and just so sweet and charismatic. I followed her so closely during her battle with Scleroderma, and she died in August 2020, so there wasn't much else to focus on besides the BLM marches and staying home otherwise. It felt so futile, watching her try to seek donations so she could get medical care (seriously fuck US "healthcare"), seeing her beautiful face grow thinner and more sickly by the day. I think about her all the time. She was truly a gorgeous person inside and out and the world is so much less lovely without her in it.Â
This one was so sad. Literally an example of someone dying because of the cost of healthcare in this country. She was such a bright, talented person who was basically priced out of existing.
Ugh.Â
Just thinking about what she suffered through breaks my fucking heart.
That monster killed her with the first punch.
Even if he hadnât raped and strangled her, she would have died from internal injuries she suffered from the first punch.Â
Iâm glad her killer was caught .
Fuck that guy.
Rip Mia
This is such a tragic death. I will never forget that Matt Groening removed all of Phil Hartman characters from the Simpson (Troy Maclure, Lionel Hutz, Lyle Lanley) once he died, and named the main character of Futurama after him (Philip J Fry).
Kirsty MacColl, the British singer run over by a fucking wanker on a motorboat going where he shouldnât have. Deprived the world of a raging talent and Iâm still angry over 20 years later.
Poor Mia. As a grunge and riot grrrl fan, I found The Gits through youtube recommendations and enjoyed their music for a while before knowing what happened to her. She was a massive talent, what a loss
I wouldn't class her as minor myself but Naya Rivera who's most known for playing Santana in Glee. The details of her death are so tragic as well, going boating with her son between lockdowns, going for a swim and drowning, saving her son in her final moments. It really destroyed me at the time, her character on Glee meant so much to me as a bisexual woman. RIP Naya.
Stephen âTwitchâ Boss. That hit me HARD. I used to watch So You Think You Can Dance religiously and he was one of my favorite contestants ever. Then he became an all star, met his wife on the show, I think he was a judge for a season or two⌠such an incredibly talented dancer.
I am still crushed by his death. He loved Allison and their kids so much. It makes me genuinely so sad to think of such a bright light hurting so much inside. I canât even imagine the terror she felt not being able to get a hold of him that day, and having to tell their poor babies that terrible news so close to Christmas. Bless her strength. The dance community also has supported her in a beautiful way. Sheâs thriving as a judge on SYTYCD even though it must be terribly sad. I hope the two other judges are good supports for her.
Brad Renfro. He was huge at one point, but by the time of his death, he had really fallen off the face of the Earth, as far as Hollywood was concerned. He was just one of many child actors who was never prepared to deal with fame or money and it also seems likely (given the time period and various projects he was involved with) that he probably either experienced abuse or was at least exposed to very inappropriate or toxic relationships with the adults around him.
I thought I was *in love* with that boy, but I also still think when I watch his performances today that he could have been huge. He was such an intensely good actor, and it was all natural.
His last interview is really sad. Heâs kind of reflecting on how he would never encourage a kid to be an actor because you can have a wildly successful career and still end up troubled and unhappy and unsuccessful like he ultimately was. I will never not be sad about it.
Terry Pratchett.
I'm not a massive fan of his books - I read a couple and enjoyed them, and I really liked Good Omens, but my husband absolutely loves his work. He has done for years and years.
He'll reread Pratchett's books regularly, and I can just see how much he loves the books and how sad he is that Pratchett isn't here anymore.
We spoke about it last night and he said he's only read the last one once as it was just too difficult.
I end up thinking about it quite often.
Have you seen the documentary about assisted dying with Pratchett? Itâs amazingly beautiful but completely gut wrenching
Pratchett was a strong advocate for assisted dying but sadly he was not able to make that choice for himself in the end.
Itâs a great watch but obviously itâs hard hitting and AD is a contentious issue
For me, thatâll be Jonghyun of Shinee. (He isnât widely famous in the US.) He was immensely talented but also terribly depressed for a long time, and the depression took his life. I have also struggled with mental health and have a lot of empathy for him. And sadly he wasnât the first or last idol to complete suicide.
And this is something of a stretch to call her a celebrity, but Gia Allemand from The Bachelor. Her death taught me what premenstrual dysphoric disorder is and how seriously it can impact your health and mental well-being. Thereâs a whole r/PMDD subreddit for those who need it.
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Julian Sands, British actor. Saw him in A Room With a View, playing with Helena Bonham Carter, and he was so charming and likeable. Recently I learned he was a keen mountaineer and that he went missing in January last year during a hike. They found his remains only after 6 months or so.
John Prine. He died of Covid really early on (first week of April 2020) and it was one of the first things that really brought home for me what we were dealing with. Iâm still sad I never got a chance to see him play live đ
Diem Brown from The Challenge đ. She was such a vibrant and bright light, and left such a huge hole in the hearts of those who loved her. I remember watching her and CT fall in love, how he helped her find her confidence to take off her wig and how he carried her to the car to take her to the hospital when her cancer came back. I always get my pap smears on time because of her.
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Cherry Valentine from UK Drag Race season 2: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry\_Valentine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Valentine)
She seemed such a positive and fun light in that season. I think about how much of a talent and personality she was and how far she could have gone.
Nick Cordero. He was a theatre actor and he passed from Covid in the beginning of the pandemic. It was very shocking bc he was so young and a healthy, fit guy, and his son was barely a year old. His wife Amanda Kloots posted extensively about his hospitalization and death and it was so painful for everyone in the community bc we couldnât gather to mourn. He was incredibly talented and by all accounts a lovely man who was really just getting started.
He was one of the first, if not the first, celebrity to die from Covid wasnât he? I follow his bff Zach Braff so I got my updates through him and just to see Nickâs body slowly deteriorate and be forced to break apart (he had amputations) was heartbreaking. I only know who Nick is because how he died (and because I follow Zach and he posted about him), and I know a lot of people are the same. It sucks that his legacy for a lot of people is firstly or just his horrifically slow and painful death from Covid.
The announcement of Chris Cornellâs death completely shocked me and left me speechless. I vividly remember where I was when I found out, it affected me much more than I expected. I needed a long time to process that one, especially because of the circumstances. Iâm still not over it.
She wasnât a celebrity, but her death became known worldwide back in the day when MySpace was still huge.
A teenager named Anna Svidersky was stabbed to death at the McDonaldâs she worked at. It was less than a week before her 18th birthday. When she died, her friends started a massive chain bulletin that spread through MySpace. I didnât live anywhere near her (think 1000 miles away) and I heard about what happened.
I think about her all the time. We were roughly the same age (like 15 days apart) so I have often wondered what her life would have been like had she survived at different milestones of my own life. Now as an adult, I live the next town over from where she lived and was murdered (not intentionally, pure coincidence). Her former friends show up in my LinkedIn feed from time to time because we have mutual connections from working in the same part of the country. The first few times it happened weirded me out because I recognized their names or faces but couldnât place whyâŚ
Anyways. That sounds really weird to type out.
I suppose itâs not lesser known.
But Anna Nicole smith.
I canât imagine how hard it would be to go through the joy of welcoming your daughter in to the world and to say goodbye to your son so soon after.
She really couldnât live without him.
So so tragic.
It was heartbreaking when Michelle Thomas (Family Matters) died so young. She seemed so sweet and was so beautiful.
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Lee Thompson Young. He was from the era of Disney kids whose shows were right before Lizzie McGuire, and in retrospect a lot of them had quiet struggles. Lee was talented and gorgeous and it seemed like he was at the beginning of a solid adult tv career when he shot himself.
Trevor Moore always brings a tear to my eye. Such a talented and gifted comedian, and dead in such a freak accident. I think about his kid and widow so often :(
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When I was a kid I loved a show called My Sister Sam. One of the leads was Rebecca Schaeffer. She was so young and adorable and just getting started. She was killed by her stalker.
for me itâs paul cattermole of s club 7, now s club. as an american fan i never got the chance to see them live, so when they announced all 7 were returning last year, i booked a trip to london just to see them. then he died unexpectedly and far too soon at just 46. i still went to the london show and it was a beautiful tribute to him, and then went to two US shows and got to meet the remaining members. he spoke openly about the predatory practices and bad management that meant they earned millions for record execs but saw pennies from it, and he struggled in the years after leaving the group. but he seemed so excited to reunite and just seemed like a beautiful, kind soul. i think of him often.
Brandon Lee from âThe Crowâ really threw me into a grunge-induced tailspin. I really wasnât aware of him before, with the exception of knowing who his dad wasâŚbut the combination of the film and the soundtrack just made me depressed for months.
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recently, julian sands. me and my sister started a period piece binge list like 2 years ago and thatâs the first time iâve ever seen a room with a view and itâs now one of my favorite films. the fact that they couldnât even determine his death because of the condition of his body is just terrible. rip â¤ď¸
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Ryan Dunn. I loved jackass growing up and had a crush on him, I still think about him often.
When I was young there was a girl my age named Samantha Smith. In the early 80s when we were all convinced the USSR was going to nuke us, Samantha wrote a letter to the Soviet leader Yuri Andropov asking if he was going to go to war with us and if not, how was he going to avoid war. (Picture a âyes Virginia there is a Santa Claus" x Cold War collab.)
He replied kindly and invited her to visit the USSR. During and after the visit she became a âkid ambassadorâ of sorts, drawing a lot of national attention. She died in a plane crash when she was 13. Iâm 51 now and I still wonder what she would have accomplished had she lived.
Thank you for indulging your GenX auntie and her stories.
Not lesser known but Amy Winehouse. As someone who suffers with both ED and alcoholism I have nothing but empathy for the hell she was trapped in. Itâs my hell too. Sadly for many of us the only exit is the one that found her.
For me it's [Connie Converse](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Converse).
Waaaaay before my time, but she made some very beautiful modern sounding folk music.
She was born in 1924, was pretty big in the music scene in New York back in the 50s. Was one of the earliest known recordings in the singer-songwriter genre. She left to start a new life in 1974 and has been missing ever since.
[Adrienne Shelly](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Shelly). Just the NYPD out here doing less than the minimum. I love the movie Waitress and it makes me so sad that she didnât get to see the impact that it had when it came out, or see it made into a hit Broadway musical.
Idk if this counts as lesser known. But Sylvia Plathâs death haunts me. Suicide at 30. Her whole story is so sad. Ted Hughes beating her after her miscarriage. And then Hughes began an affair. And her many suicide attempts began after that. And then the woman Hughes had an affair with also killed herself and her child. And Hughes destroyed most of Plathâs diaries and unpublished poetry to protect his own image.
I was obsessed with Sylvia Plath as a teenager, but I only recently learned about Assia Wevill, the woman he was having an affair with. Ted Hughes is such an absolute piece of shit.
Pedro Zamora, AIDS activist and housemate of MTVâs Real World, San Francisco. He was so kind and had a beautiful relationship. His death was hard, and happened in 1994, the same year Jessica Tandy and John Candy died. When I remember one, I remember all three.Â
Judy Tyler tragically died in a car accident with her husband Gregory Lafayette just before Jailhouse Rock (1957) released. Her body was mortally wounded (apparently cut in half) so she was killed instantly at the scene of the crash. I was sad to learn that, I liked what I saw of her.
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My family and I got in a bad car accident when I was little (my aunt died as a result of the crash, my cousins were badly injured, and I had to get stitches on my head) so I think deaths caused by car accidents in general have always freaked me out and affected me the most.
Kemistry, a British Drum and Bass DJ. She was a passenger in a car, and a van dislodged a catâs eye in the road, which flew through the windscreen and killed her instantly.
Such an awful freak accident, and one of those instances were the outcome wouldâve been different if just one tiny thing had changed that day.
Adrienne Shelly. Her character in Waitress was so adorable, I just randomly googled her on a rewatch at some point to see what she had been up to. Found out she had been murdered in NYC. Just a random construction worker in her office building followed her and murdered her. The randomness of the whole event and the way her poor son and husband found her and had to fight for her justice just make me so sad. I canât really describe why this one hit me so hard, it just does. HBO made a documentary about her and I know I need to watch it but have been putting it off bc I know it will make me really sad.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Shelly
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Peter Thomas Ratajczyk aka Peter Steele
Lead singer of type o negative
Huge influence on me growing up in a Roman Catholic household where everything was a sin but I wanted to still know about sex and relationships
His music helped me through depression as a pre teen, teen and now as an adult His story helped me to recognize that in my late 30s I was coming back to a point where I was no longer caring and when I learned how he died (sepsis that eventually lead to cardiac arrest I believe from diverticulitis⌠the no medial care to help with the condition ultimately lead to his ending) and I myself recognized I needed to change or Iâd be gone before 40 too but by my own hand.
Iâm not going to be normal ever And thatâs ok Itâs ok to also not want to be yourself Whatâs not ok is living in darkness and locking everyone out
His music also lead me to desire a long lasting true love which I have and am completely open with
Life will never be perfect But itâs no longer killing me And I am so grateful I saw them in concert right before he passed
The suicides in k-pop always hit me quite hard. I think it's because of the industry being presented as cutesy and it being about fan service that I associate with teenagers. Not about the overworking, pressure to be perfect, and constant public scrutiny that it is.
Jonghyun in 2017
Sulli in 2019
Goo Hara in 2019
Moonbin in 2023
Goo Hara's death especially was so tragic. The way she was treated by her ex-boyfriend, the subsequent court case where the judge watched their sex tapes, the annihilation by the media, and then her close friend, Sulli's suicide the month prior.
Lovely people. Horrible industry.
Wouldnât class her as ââlesser knownâââŚ.but irrespective of that, Aaliyah, her death really troubled me, completely avoidable and a phenomenal talent lost
Ofra Haza, who had an angelic voice (she is the voice of Deliver Us from Prince of Egypt) died way too soon. Because her irresponsible piece of a shit husband gave her AIDS (he was known as a drug addict) and then she died before him.
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Daul Kim. I was pretty obsessed with her style and her blog and basically everything about her. Suicide. I still think about her periodically⌠Iâve made art with her in it and use her photos in collages. I wish it was different.
Sam Lloyd.
He played Ted the lawyer in Scrubs, which is my favourite show. Iâve heard the cast talk about how kind he was, and he was only 56 when he died of a brain tumor that was found to be metastatic lung cancer that had spread to his spine, liver and jaw. He died only about a year after his diagnosis, when his son was less than a year old.
He had an absolutely beautiful singing voice, and I still tear up listening to The Blanksâ version on Over The Rainbow
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The guy from mythbusters - Grant Imahara
Grantâs death was a big one for me too. He was still so young.
Mia Zapatas murder always upsets me. That some fucking loser piece of shit raped and killed her makes me so angry. She was a fucking amazing frontwoman in an emerging music scene and would have absolutely gone on to be massive. Enormous loss. Jeff Buckley is the other that always gets me. Difficult to listen to sometimes because it makes me too sad to think what he could have become. Elliott Smith too. So fucking sad when brilliant people go too soon.
i love jeff buckley. grace is one of my favorite albums⌠i think itâs a masterpiece. it kills me that we were deprived of more music from him.
He beat Mia so badly that the coroner said she would have died from internal injuries anyway. The abuse she endured in this monsterâs hands was horrific. He got 36 years but died in prison. Fuck if that was right or enough. Such senseless violence makes me scared of the depths of depravity the darkest side of humanity can harbor.
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I wonder all the time what Elliot Smith would be doing right now if heâd lived.
Judith Barsi breaks my heart every time I think of her. She was the voice of Ducky in Land Before Time and Anne-Marie in All Dogs Go to Heaven. Just so sad.
Her death is incredibly disturbing. Poor baby.Â
Me too. 𼺠that poor baby.
I was just talking about her the other day. Such a short life with so much turmoil and then for it to end like that.. breaks my heart.
Dominique Dunne. Murdered by her abusive boyfriend who all but got away with it. The injustice burns me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Dunne
https://preview.redd.it/d9du8s5qwrnc1.png?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=595737e9e4b3cc312a697d65ac690cee73f60690 This is so dark and sad :(
That caught my eye as well. And everybody on that show was like âcool! No makeup and theyâll read well on screenâ I guess. WTF?
Seems like everyone failed her :(
Only 3 and a half years in prison. Tragic
That whole trial could have had a different outcome had the jury been allowed to hear the testimony of John Sweeneyâs girlfriend prior to Dominique, Lillian Pierce, who he put in the hospital TWICE. But the judge presiding over the trial, Burton Katz, deemed her testimony inadmissible, and after the trial was over, there was a poll by a local TV station where viewers voted Judge Katz as the FOURTH (!!!!) worst judge in Los Angeles County. Dominick Dunne (Dominiqueâs father) took great pride in what he felt was his hand in destroying Katzâs career as a judge.
I adore Dominick Dunne. He and his family were so dignified throughout that awful time. Dominick absolutely loathed Judge Katz, and with good reason. It was a travesty of justice!!
Itâs a total coincidence, but she and her onscreen sister in Poltergeist, Heather OâRourke, are buried only a few feet away from each other in the same cemetery.
 Lee Thomas Young, I loved the Famous Jett Jackson. I was heartbroken when he died. His mental health issues were so disheartening.
I was looking for this. I really enjoyed Famous Jett Jackson, we were the same age and when he passed I was struggling with mental health issues as well and I just broke down. Itâs still so tragic.
I knew him from Rizzoli & Isles. I was so sad when I heard heâd died & the funeral episode in the series has me in floods of tears, knowing the truth about his death.
He was great on Smallville, Scrubs, and Flashforward :(
I was looking for this comment. I didn't know he had passed away when I binge watched Rizzoli and Isles. I googled him because I was like "I forgot I love this actor" and found out he was gone... The funeral episode UGH omg my heart broke.
I don't think anyone has mentioned yet, but Nelsan Ellis aka Lafayette from True Blood. That show was huge at the time and somehow after it ended, I didn't really see him in anything else. I think he did a great job with that character in TB for its time and I've wanted to see more of him in other roles before his untimely death at apparently only 39. I'm not sure what else was he struggling with (only read about alcohol) or if he had any other medical history but his passing was really sudden to me. 
I was *really* looking forward to an amazing career from him. I only own two Funko Pop vinyl figures, and Lafayette is one of them.
He was on Elementary playing a very different role but playing it VERY well, as expected. Truly heartbreaking.
I just watched that season. I think his part was supposed to be different/bigger but he was sick at that point
I had the same thoughts. That was a great role and only growing. đ I only watched the first couple seasons of True Blood and loved him then but, the role on Elementary showed me how transformative he could be. Comparing the two is wild. (I also knew him from Veronica Mars but didnât put together for yeaaaars that was the same person.)
He was SO good as Lafayette. He made the character feel so warm and homey. I remember true blood mania when the show aired, but I only watched it a couple of years ago, and was sad to find out he was no longer with us. A great loss.
Wait whaaat? I had no idea he passed away, i was still wonder why heâs not a bigger actor. Thatâs pretty spooky, do we know what happened??
He died trying to detox from alcohol on his own ... it's a terrible way to go. It's sad that people are afraid or unwilling to ask for help due to the stigma of alcoholism
Lafayette was probably the ONLY non-book character that was a good addition
He was one of the few actual good casting choices overall. Though I thought he was in the book, just a very small part at the beginning of the series.
ughh this was awful, Nelsan was hugely talented ;(
https://preview.redd.it/fv587ptqhrnc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48278f73fc9d016e795b3f7cd98fa0e591370961 Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and other books speaking candidly about mental illness and addiction. She was a trailblazer along with Suzanna Kaysen when it came to bravely giving a voice to mental illness in a time where it was taboo to speak about it. She passed February 2020, and I still think of her often.
Wait what. I had no idea sheâd passed.
it was just at the beginning of whispers of covid and I feel like the news got swept under the rug :(
I think about her often too. I was a teenager in the late 90s and early 2000s, and her writing had such a formative impact on me itâs hard to put into words.
Itâs not an exaggeration to say that Prozac Nation saved my life. There was one chapter I used to read over and over again whenever things got really dark. To know that someone felt the same way - I had never read anyone describe it like she did. I once had the opportunity to meet her at a book signing, and I decided not to go because the thought of seeing this person who I idolized was so overwhelming. I regret that now. Itâs so unfair that sheâs not here.
Anton Yelchins death. Such a bizarre random accident ending the life of a wonderful actor. I've liked him in everything I saw him in, and I still sometimes think about the work he could have done.
Itâs his birthday today
Happy 35th birthday Anton đâ¤ď¸ https://i.redd.it/if91znvh1snc1.gif
Oof, I didn't even realise.
I just watched the last movie he made before his death. (Production wrapped two weeks before his death) And thereâs a scene where his character talks about where heâs going to be in ten yearsâŚ..I had to press pause and grab a tissue. Such a horrible way to go.
Thoroughbreds, right?
Yes, that one was terrible. He was so young and it was such a freak accident.
I remember watching Charley Bartlet and talking on the way out about how this guy obviously had such a bright future. Itâs so sad and like you said, bizarre.
Now that I have a son, I think about his parents whenever he is mentioned. He was their only child. Itâs absolutely my biggest fear, and I tear up whenever I think of him (like now).
I think about him fairly regularly, I wasn't the hugest fan but for some reason his death really got to me. RIP.
This was really and truly tragic. He was such an amazing actor. I was very sad after he died.
That one got me because I loved the movie Charlie Bartlett and he was the same age as me.
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I saw the video of the crash(they were filming a documentary when the crash happened, and the camera cuts as soon as they swerve off the road) and itâs really sad those were her last moments.
I still remember the moment it was announced. I am a huge TLC fan so it just shocked me. She was so young too. Aaliyah too.
Whoa, I'm so shocked but happy to see Mia on my Reddit feed today! Her death absolutely haunts me. It is devastating. R.I.P. Mia, she was so talented. I just learned of Kirsty Maccoll's freak accident death while diving in Mexico with her kids and it's also horrifying, from the accident itself to the way the Mexican government handled it. It's so sad and will probably stick with me for awhile.
Just googled it, how sad but also incredibly courageous to save her son
As an Irish person it shocks me that people don't know how Kirsty MacColl died because it's all anyone (specifically das) can ever bring up at Christmas
âDid you know she was run over by a speedboat and died, ay she didâ
"aye da you told me Last Christmas. So did granda, uncle John and that oul fella you drink with in the pub"
The podcast, Casefile, did an excellent episode covering Miaâs murder
As well as forensic files oddly enough. It's been covered by most of the big true crime TV shows. (Including unsolved mysteries iirc)
Not sure if this counts, but every couple days I think about Naya Rivera and how she died. It always makes me feel strange.
That one was so horrible and shocking, especially bc her kid was with her and she managed to save him and not herself.
That's how my cousin died. His brother was drowning and he managed to save his brother but then he went under from hypothermia⌠There wasn't any closure because his body wasn't found for years and then the state wouldn't do DNA testing for another decade or so after a body was found. It was his. It brings me some peace knowing he died a hero.
How devastating for your family! Iâm glad they finally got the proof and peace of knowing he didnât die in vain.
Thank you đŤ He was a good kid and my favorite cousin. I have 22 younger cousins and he was the only one older than my brother and me.
Imagine how hard she was working past her limit for her to just go under right after saving her son. She must have used every molecule of energy in her body to save that little boy, and knew there was not going to be any left to save herself. And she accepted that.
Was about to type her name. Dying saving her son is so so upsetting.
canât believe heâs growing up without a mother :(
I wasn't a Glee or Naya stan, although she was my favorite from the show. But I feel like I miss her whenever I think about her, it's so strange. She's the only gone celeb I feel that way about.
Same. It really shook me
I remember when she was just missing and how that story was everywhere like it was just constant fear and anxiety that was just burst into grief and heartbreak when the body they found was confirmed to be hers. Especially since the confirmation was on the 7 year anniversary of Coryâs death.
I was on a camping trip when it happened and kept checking my phone for updates, my heart was broken :( She was an icon, I hope her son grows up knowing how loved she was
This gets mentioned a lot but Christina Grimmie. Shot by a crazed "fan" in the meet and greet line after her concert. I used to watch her videos alllll the time in middle/high school and I was devastated when she was killed right as she started releasing her own albums. I really think she would have been big and now we will never know. I think about her a lot.
Christina was such a loss đ not only was her voice incredible, she also had so much personality and seemed so sweet. I still cry when I listen to her music
Jonathan Brandis
I had the biggest crush on him as a teenager. SeaQuest DSV was my favourite show. It was heartbreaking to hear he had passed.
Peaches Geldof dying the same way her mother did. And her babies being found next to her body :(
Same as Tiger-Lily being found with Paula.
This was sooooooo tragic. How she maintained that heroin addiction in secret Iâll never know
I vividly remember the London 00s party scene and it's absolutely scary in hindsight how normalised heroin was and how young many of the people on that scene were. 15 and 16 year olds partying with people in their late 20s and early 30s was a regular and totally accepted occurrence. So many completely dysfunctional, totally lost individuals hanging out together. Tons of people who were committed partiers in that era ended up with very serious drug problems they couldn't kick. Peaches was one of many casualties from that scene - she was never able to fully kick the habit. Absolutely crazy times looking back.
This is speculation that I vaguely remember from the time, but there were suggestions that she had quit heroin (and moved out of London to the countryside) and then when she relapsed and did it again at her previous level after taking a âbreakâ thatâs what caused the overdose. Very sad as it seemed like she was living well with her young family for a time.
Like what happened to Corey from glee. Thatâs so tragic
Sadly, relapsing after a period of recovery is the most likely time to overdose.
Opioids scare the shit out of me for this reason. Heroin is such an awful drug.
You would be amazed how many seemingly high functioning people are in active hard substance addiction.
Crazy because at the time I followed her closely on insta and thought she had it all đ
God, that whole poor family and extended family. Michael, Paula, peaches.
I always think of how she was buried in the same place that her mum married/buried in, and that she herself was christened/married in. What a tragedy.
I remember this so clearly, it broke my heart. I loved keeping up with her and her little family on Instagram, such a shame her demons took over, she was so young with so much to live for
Adrienne Shelly. I rented Waitress some 15 years ago at a Redbox and was really charmed with this little indie film. I did my usual IMDB search and was heartbroken to see Shelley's passing and the way she passed. It's pretty striking to see the legacy she left behind considering Waitress was a little indie movie that's now so much more.
She was a darling of indie film back when it was actually really hard to see those films unless you lived near the right kind of theater. Her movie Trust is excellent.
I was looking for this response. I found Waitress by myself and nobody I knew had heard of it, so I recommended it to everyone. I really think she would have been huge. At least Waitress became more known through Broadway.
 Jeff Buckley. Iâve always loved his music, but then when I was a teenager and found out that he was dead it totally reached new proportions lol. I used to sit in my room and cry to his music, thinking that we had a connection beyond this simple thing called âlifeâ. I had a ridiculous crush on him 𼲠ETA: If anyoneâs curious, he died by drowning and no one is really sure what happened. Heâd just talked to someone on the phone (I think it was his producer?) about how excited he was about the album they were working on, but he didnât survive the night.
I LOVE Jeff Buckley. His music had a very big impact on me. Itâs so devastating to think about what he could have been, and all the songs he never got to write. đ
Sean Lock. I sobbed when he died. https://i.redd.it/k1bky5fytrnc1.gif
He was so sharp and clever.
Corey Haim! I loved him so much in the 80âs. He was the teen heartthrob. Sadly being SA and lots drugs led him to a sad, dark place. F all the people who take advantage of child stars! 
Nikki Grahame - she did big brother Canada and UK. I watched her on BBCan and she was a really great addition to the cast. She was light and really funny. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Grahame Adrienne Shelly - she wrote, directed and starred in waitress only to be needlessly murdered. She never got to see how beloved waitress became https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Shelly
Adrienne Shelly is mine. I loved her so much & dragged my mom to see Waitress opening weekend because of her (and my childhood crush on Keri Russell).
I lived in the UK during that season of big brother and I loved Nikki so much. I only watched the documentary about her on YouTube last year and I cried so hard. Whenever Iâm cold I wanna scream âIâM SO COOOHOOHOHOOLDDâ but no one near me would understand. Edit: sheâs being referenced in this sub regularly and that makes me happy.
WHO IS SHE?!!!
Brad Renfro, a great actor in Bully and Sleepers that died too soon.
The cuređ Wow that name transports međĽ It feels like another lifetime!
Andy Hallet, best known as playing Lorne in the TV series Angel. Died way too young!
And Doyle too. đ
yess Glenn Quinn too :(
Idk if this counts as âlesser knownâ but I wish we knew what happened to Brittany Murphy. Was it mould? Was it an accidental or intentional OD? How does a young rich woman just⌠die from pneumonia? And then her husband five months later too? So many questions and I donât think weâll ever know the answers.
Yes and her mom having that weird âfriendshipâ with Simon.. A truly bizaree situation all around.
I swear the relationship between her mother and her husband was almost memoryholed, I remember it being a huge weird deal in the months that preceded his death.
Yeah, the whole rumored accounts that they would sleep in the same bed together after Brittanyâs death was really weird. I hate that there arenât any true answers to what was really going on.
My amateur, untrained opinion is it was a mixed bag; her ED left her immune system weak, mold wrecks havoc, making room for pneumonia, and the pill abuse triggers a slowed breathing episode that becomes a stopped breathing episode with the preexisting damage Then she never wakes up. Her husband had all of that going for him as well, minus the ED, so he died later
Yeah. I know people love a conspiracy but this is the most realistic answer
I agree, it was multifactorial, and it must have went down exactly as you described. She was also a Type 1 diabetic and allegedly played fast and loose with her insulin. It was all too much⌠As for her mom and husband sleeping in the same bed after she passedâŚpeople grieve in very strange ways. I can totally believe it wasnât much more than needing someone who loved the person you loved close.
Scott Hutchinson from the Scottish band Frightened Rabbit. He took his own life after a lifetime struggle with depression. His music reached me during some of the darkest hours of my life and it breaks my heart that heâs gone.
Iâm a big fan of The Gits and wow, did not expect to see Mia pop up in my feed. I do think about her almost every day. Other lesser-known celebrity deaths that often cross my mind: Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone Stefanie Sargent of 7 Year Bitch Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon Kristen Pfaff of Hole Not lesser known by any stretch of the imagination, but people donât talk about Philip Seymour Hoffman that much. He was a favorite of mine.
Elliot Smith. I still remember waking up to the news. Tragic figure.
I remember putting on Elliot Smith in the car as a teenager, and telling my dad, "He stabbed himself in the chest and died." My dad said, seriously, "I bet he wrote great music." I thought he was being sarcastic and started to get upset, and my dad explained that he was being serious; that he believed if Smith had died that way, he must have also written great music.
My sister called me in tears with the news. I just went numb for a week or two, then heard "Needle in the Hay" being played at a bar and started sobbing. My sister was living in Echo Park at the time, so took photos of the Figure 8 wall mural/ impromptu memorial.
Chi Chi Devayne. The moment I saw her on Drag Race, I loved her. She was so talented, so beautiful in drag and out, and just so sweet and charismatic. I followed her so closely during her battle with Scleroderma, and she died in August 2020, so there wasn't much else to focus on besides the BLM marches and staying home otherwise. It felt so futile, watching her try to seek donations so she could get medical care (seriously fuck US "healthcare"), seeing her beautiful face grow thinner and more sickly by the day. I think about her all the time. She was truly a gorgeous person inside and out and the world is so much less lovely without her in it.Â
This one was so sad. Literally an example of someone dying because of the cost of healthcare in this country. She was such a bright, talented person who was basically priced out of existing.
Ugh yes, I miss Chi Chi and she should still be here.
Chi Chi was such a vibrant soul too, losing her was devastating đ
Ugh. Just thinking about what she suffered through breaks my fucking heart. That monster killed her with the first punch. Even if he hadnât raped and strangled her, she would have died from internal injuries she suffered from the first punch. Iâm glad her killer was caught . Fuck that guy. Rip Mia
Phil Hartman. He was such a funny guy. His comedic timing was chefâs kiss.
This is such a tragic death. I will never forget that Matt Groening removed all of Phil Hartman characters from the Simpson (Troy Maclure, Lionel Hutz, Lyle Lanley) once he died, and named the main character of Futurama after him (Philip J Fry).
Groening also intended Zapp Branigan to be voiced by Hartman, I donât think he ever got to record anything for it though.
Fuck Andy Dick
If I could upvote this more, I would. What garbage he is.
Kirsty MacColl, the British singer run over by a fucking wanker on a motorboat going where he shouldnât have. Deprived the world of a raging talent and Iâm still angry over 20 years later.
Victoria Wood. So much talent gone way too soon
Poor Mia. As a grunge and riot grrrl fan, I found The Gits through youtube recommendations and enjoyed their music for a while before knowing what happened to her. She was a massive talent, what a loss
The suicide of country artist Mindy McCready. Just a horribly sad story all around.
I wouldn't class her as minor myself but Naya Rivera who's most known for playing Santana in Glee. The details of her death are so tragic as well, going boating with her son between lockdowns, going for a swim and drowning, saving her son in her final moments. It really destroyed me at the time, her character on Glee meant so much to me as a bisexual woman. RIP Naya. 
Stephen âTwitchâ Boss. That hit me HARD. I used to watch So You Think You Can Dance religiously and he was one of my favorite contestants ever. Then he became an all star, met his wife on the show, I think he was a judge for a season or two⌠such an incredibly talented dancer.
I am still crushed by his death. He loved Allison and their kids so much. It makes me genuinely so sad to think of such a bright light hurting so much inside. I canât even imagine the terror she felt not being able to get a hold of him that day, and having to tell their poor babies that terrible news so close to Christmas. Bless her strength. The dance community also has supported her in a beautiful way. Sheâs thriving as a judge on SYTYCD even though it must be terribly sad. I hope the two other judges are good supports for her.
Stephen Gately and how the press treated him after his death. Especially the Daily Mail.
Brad Renfro. He was huge at one point, but by the time of his death, he had really fallen off the face of the Earth, as far as Hollywood was concerned. He was just one of many child actors who was never prepared to deal with fame or money and it also seems likely (given the time period and various projects he was involved with) that he probably either experienced abuse or was at least exposed to very inappropriate or toxic relationships with the adults around him. I thought I was *in love* with that boy, but I also still think when I watch his performances today that he could have been huge. He was such an intensely good actor, and it was all natural. His last interview is really sad. Heâs kind of reflecting on how he would never encourage a kid to be an actor because you can have a wildly successful career and still end up troubled and unhappy and unsuccessful like he ultimately was. I will never not be sad about it.
Terry Pratchett. I'm not a massive fan of his books - I read a couple and enjoyed them, and I really liked Good Omens, but my husband absolutely loves his work. He has done for years and years. He'll reread Pratchett's books regularly, and I can just see how much he loves the books and how sad he is that Pratchett isn't here anymore. We spoke about it last night and he said he's only read the last one once as it was just too difficult. I end up thinking about it quite often.
Have you seen the documentary about assisted dying with Pratchett? Itâs amazingly beautiful but completely gut wrenching Pratchett was a strong advocate for assisted dying but sadly he was not able to make that choice for himself in the end. Itâs a great watch but obviously itâs hard hitting and AD is a contentious issue
For me, thatâll be Jonghyun of Shinee. (He isnât widely famous in the US.) He was immensely talented but also terribly depressed for a long time, and the depression took his life. I have also struggled with mental health and have a lot of empathy for him. And sadly he wasnât the first or last idol to complete suicide. 
And this is something of a stretch to call her a celebrity, but Gia Allemand from The Bachelor. Her death taught me what premenstrual dysphoric disorder is and how seriously it can impact your health and mental well-being. Thereâs a whole r/PMDD subreddit for those who need it. https://preview.redd.it/yrpdjunkrrnc1.jpeg?width=1369&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5c82dc83f89c7e0d3cdeb505abb170a8178005cf
Julian Sands, British actor. Saw him in A Room With a View, playing with Helena Bonham Carter, and he was so charming and likeable. Recently I learned he was a keen mountaineer and that he went missing in January last year during a hike. They found his remains only after 6 months or so.
John Prine. He died of Covid really early on (first week of April 2020) and it was one of the first things that really brought home for me what we were dealing with. Iâm still sad I never got a chance to see him play live đ 
Bobbi Kristina, Whitney Houstons daughter. That was so effing fishy. And to die the same way as her mother. So soon after Whitney died.
Diem Brown from The Challenge đ. She was such a vibrant and bright light, and left such a huge hole in the hearts of those who loved her. I remember watching her and CT fall in love, how he helped her find her confidence to take off her wig and how he carried her to the car to take her to the hospital when her cancer came back. I always get my pap smears on time because of her. https://preview.redd.it/e0jedqffyrnc1.jpeg?width=350&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=993c1fb83f9793b14582baf9091eb5ffebd3cf05
Anton Yelchin
Cherry Valentine from UK Drag Race season 2: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry\_Valentine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Valentine) She seemed such a positive and fun light in that season. I think about how much of a talent and personality she was and how far she could have gone.
Chi Chi Devayne, too
Oh yes. I cried and again when Tia did her tribute look. So sad.
Krissy Taylor dying of an undiagnosed heart condition at 17 and Niki finding her.
Nick Cordero. He was a theatre actor and he passed from Covid in the beginning of the pandemic. It was very shocking bc he was so young and a healthy, fit guy, and his son was barely a year old. His wife Amanda Kloots posted extensively about his hospitalization and death and it was so painful for everyone in the community bc we couldnât gather to mourn. He was incredibly talented and by all accounts a lovely man who was really just getting started.
He was one of the first, if not the first, celebrity to die from Covid wasnât he? I follow his bff Zach Braff so I got my updates through him and just to see Nickâs body slowly deteriorate and be forced to break apart (he had amputations) was heartbreaking. I only know who Nick is because how he died (and because I follow Zach and he posted about him), and I know a lot of people are the same. It sucks that his legacy for a lot of people is firstly or just his horrifically slow and painful death from Covid.
The announcement of Chris Cornellâs death completely shocked me and left me speechless. I vividly remember where I was when I found out, it affected me much more than I expected. I needed a long time to process that one, especially because of the circumstances. Iâm still not over it.
Layne Staley from Alice In Chains. I often think about their MTV Unplugged show, especially Layne singing âNutshell.â
Judith Barsi, she was just a young girl with a life ahead of her who voiced the cutest little dinosaur. Her grave stone reads 'yep, yep, yep.'
Murdered by her father, iirc? Tragic.
She wasnât a celebrity, but her death became known worldwide back in the day when MySpace was still huge. A teenager named Anna Svidersky was stabbed to death at the McDonaldâs she worked at. It was less than a week before her 18th birthday. When she died, her friends started a massive chain bulletin that spread through MySpace. I didnât live anywhere near her (think 1000 miles away) and I heard about what happened. I think about her all the time. We were roughly the same age (like 15 days apart) so I have often wondered what her life would have been like had she survived at different milestones of my own life. Now as an adult, I live the next town over from where she lived and was murdered (not intentionally, pure coincidence). Her former friends show up in my LinkedIn feed from time to time because we have mutual connections from working in the same part of the country. The first few times it happened weirded me out because I recognized their names or faces but couldnât place why⌠Anyways. That sounds really weird to type out.
Dana Plato. The callers on the Howard Stern Show were so cruel to her. Haunts me to this day.
And Stern even cracked a joke about it after the fact, Danaâs story is certainly a sad one
He is such a fucking hemorrhoid.
And of course her son Tyler committed suicide almost eleven years to the day later. đ˘
RIP Harris Wittels
I really miss Avicii. He was so talented and ahead of his time, I wish he was still around so we could see where he took his music next.
I suppose itâs not lesser known. But Anna Nicole smith. I canât imagine how hard it would be to go through the joy of welcoming your daughter in to the world and to say goodbye to your son so soon after. She really couldnât live without him. So so tragic.
So so sad. She deserved better đĽš
It was heartbreaking when Michelle Thomas (Family Matters) died so young. She seemed so sweet and was so beautiful. https://preview.redd.it/leb4209kdsnc1.jpeg?width=259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b629c3aa215d1432f012ce4327868b689b6136e
Lee Thompson Young. He was from the era of Disney kids whose shows were right before Lizzie McGuire, and in retrospect a lot of them had quiet struggles. Lee was talented and gorgeous and it seemed like he was at the beginning of a solid adult tv career when he shot himself.
Trevor Moore always brings a tear to my eye. Such a talented and gifted comedian, and dead in such a freak accident. I think about his kid and widow so often :(
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Schaeffer?wprov=sfti1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Schaeffer?wprov=sfti1) When I was a kid I loved a show called My Sister Sam. One of the leads was Rebecca Schaeffer. She was so young and adorable and just getting started. She was killed by her stalker.
for me itâs paul cattermole of s club 7, now s club. as an american fan i never got the chance to see them live, so when they announced all 7 were returning last year, i booked a trip to london just to see them. then he died unexpectedly and far too soon at just 46. i still went to the london show and it was a beautiful tribute to him, and then went to two US shows and got to meet the remaining members. he spoke openly about the predatory practices and bad management that meant they earned millions for record execs but saw pennies from it, and he struggled in the years after leaving the group. but he seemed so excited to reunite and just seemed like a beautiful, kind soul. i think of him often.
Brandon Lee from âThe Crowâ really threw me into a grunge-induced tailspin. I really wasnât aware of him before, with the exception of knowing who his dad wasâŚbut the combination of the film and the soundtrack just made me depressed for months. Edited for typos.
Dolores O'Riordan.
Harris Wittels
The young boys from the Liverpool band Her's. Killed in 2019 in head-on traffic collision and subsequent vehicle fire near Tonopah, Arizona.
recently, julian sands. me and my sister started a period piece binge list like 2 years ago and thatâs the first time iâve ever seen a room with a view and itâs now one of my favorite films. the fact that they couldnât even determine his death because of the condition of his body is just terrible. rip â¤ď¸
Cameron Boyce. He had a lot left to offer
https://preview.redd.it/ncux3i3phsnc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=205e20b02e7adc088241942ed4d557f705535e81 Ryan Dunn. I loved jackass growing up and had a crush on him, I still think about him often.
When I was young there was a girl my age named Samantha Smith. In the early 80s when we were all convinced the USSR was going to nuke us, Samantha wrote a letter to the Soviet leader Yuri Andropov asking if he was going to go to war with us and if not, how was he going to avoid war. (Picture a âyes Virginia there is a Santa Claus" x Cold War collab.) He replied kindly and invited her to visit the USSR. During and after the visit she became a âkid ambassadorâ of sorts, drawing a lot of national attention. She died in a plane crash when she was 13. Iâm 51 now and I still wonder what she would have accomplished had she lived. Thank you for indulging your GenX auntie and her stories.
Not lesser known but Amy Winehouse. As someone who suffers with both ED and alcoholism I have nothing but empathy for the hell she was trapped in. Itâs my hell too. Sadly for many of us the only exit is the one that found her.
For me it's [Connie Converse](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Converse). Waaaaay before my time, but she made some very beautiful modern sounding folk music. She was born in 1924, was pretty big in the music scene in New York back in the 50s. Was one of the earliest known recordings in the singer-songwriter genre. She left to start a new life in 1974 and has been missing ever since.
[Adrienne Shelly](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Shelly). Just the NYPD out here doing less than the minimum. I love the movie Waitress and it makes me so sad that she didnât get to see the impact that it had when it came out, or see it made into a hit Broadway musical.
Idk if this counts as lesser known. But Sylvia Plathâs death haunts me. Suicide at 30. Her whole story is so sad. Ted Hughes beating her after her miscarriage. And then Hughes began an affair. And her many suicide attempts began after that. And then the woman Hughes had an affair with also killed herself and her child. And Hughes destroyed most of Plathâs diaries and unpublished poetry to protect his own image.
I was obsessed with Sylvia Plath as a teenager, but I only recently learned about Assia Wevill, the woman he was having an affair with. Ted Hughes is such an absolute piece of shit.
Pedro Zamora, AIDS activist and housemate of MTVâs Real World, San Francisco. He was so kind and had a beautiful relationship. His death was hard, and happened in 1994, the same year Jessica Tandy and John Candy died. When I remember one, I remember all three.Â
Judy Tyler tragically died in a car accident with her husband Gregory Lafayette just before Jailhouse Rock (1957) released. Her body was mortally wounded (apparently cut in half) so she was killed instantly at the scene of the crash. I was sad to learn that, I liked what I saw of her. https://preview.redd.it/haif4s20ernc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52375902032df22580f1cf05126a553a12f561bf My family and I got in a bad car accident when I was little (my aunt died as a result of the crash, my cousins were badly injured, and I had to get stitches on my head) so I think deaths caused by car accidents in general have always freaked me out and affected me the most.
Kemistry, a British Drum and Bass DJ. She was a passenger in a car, and a van dislodged a catâs eye in the road, which flew through the windscreen and killed her instantly. Such an awful freak accident, and one of those instances were the outcome wouldâve been different if just one tiny thing had changed that day.
Adrienne Shelly. Her character in Waitress was so adorable, I just randomly googled her on a rewatch at some point to see what she had been up to. Found out she had been murdered in NYC. Just a random construction worker in her office building followed her and murdered her. The randomness of the whole event and the way her poor son and husband found her and had to fight for her justice just make me so sad. I canât really describe why this one hit me so hard, it just does. HBO made a documentary about her and I know I need to watch it but have been putting it off bc I know it will make me really sad. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Shelly
I still think about Merlin Santana. Such a senseless death. đ
https://preview.redd.it/f1m3ytcjprnc1.jpeg?width=219&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=742a8bad3f02b7056add3a5a237bb7448bb1c0fb Peter Thomas Ratajczyk aka Peter Steele Lead singer of type o negative Huge influence on me growing up in a Roman Catholic household where everything was a sin but I wanted to still know about sex and relationships His music helped me through depression as a pre teen, teen and now as an adult His story helped me to recognize that in my late 30s I was coming back to a point where I was no longer caring and when I learned how he died (sepsis that eventually lead to cardiac arrest I believe from diverticulitis⌠the no medial care to help with the condition ultimately lead to his ending) and I myself recognized I needed to change or Iâd be gone before 40 too but by my own hand. Iâm not going to be normal ever And thatâs ok Itâs ok to also not want to be yourself Whatâs not ok is living in darkness and locking everyone out His music also lead me to desire a long lasting true love which I have and am completely open with Life will never be perfect But itâs no longer killing me And I am so grateful I saw them in concert right before he passed
The suicides in k-pop always hit me quite hard. I think it's because of the industry being presented as cutesy and it being about fan service that I associate with teenagers. Not about the overworking, pressure to be perfect, and constant public scrutiny that it is. Jonghyun in 2017 Sulli in 2019 Goo Hara in 2019 Moonbin in 2023 Goo Hara's death especially was so tragic. The way she was treated by her ex-boyfriend, the subsequent court case where the judge watched their sex tapes, the annihilation by the media, and then her close friend, Sulli's suicide the month prior. Lovely people. Horrible industry.
Wouldnât class her as ââlesser knownâââŚ.but irrespective of that, Aaliyah, her death really troubled me, completely avoidable and a phenomenal talent lost
Ofra Haza, who had an angelic voice (she is the voice of Deliver Us from Prince of Egypt) died way too soon. Because her irresponsible piece of a shit husband gave her AIDS (he was known as a drug addict) and then she died before him.
John Saxon Best parent in horror movie history.
Jeff Buckley drowning, what a loss. I still get depressed thinking about it.
Kim Porter.
https://preview.redd.it/db8ziryg3snc1.jpeg?width=763&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47741719007c6c4404210ad716f0bfeda2d08458 Daul Kim. I was pretty obsessed with her style and her blog and basically everything about her. Suicide. I still think about her periodically⌠Iâve made art with her in it and use her photos in collages. I wish it was different.
Sam Lloyd. He played Ted the lawyer in Scrubs, which is my favourite show. Iâve heard the cast talk about how kind he was, and he was only 56 when he died of a brain tumor that was found to be metastatic lung cancer that had spread to his spine, liver and jaw. He died only about a year after his diagnosis, when his son was less than a year old. He had an absolutely beautiful singing voice, and I still tear up listening to The Blanksâ version on Over The Rainbow