Other and the 2016 killstreak continues

Gene Wilder 1933 - 2016



man this is ****ing ********

 

I just said "Oh you're f**ing kidding me" out loud, wearing headphones.

That really sucks balls I only watched Stir Crazy a few nights ago

 

Very sad but at least he made it to old age.

 

I read an interesting article a few weeks ago, pointing out that as bad as 2016 appears to people, most of the headline names that are frequently touted, there are very few people who actually died 'young'.

If you look a a distribution of deaths across the population, you will find that 65-85 covers the vast majority of the population.

For a guy born in 1933, 83 years old is pretty good. For a white male born in 1935, the life expectancy was 61: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005148.html

Furthermore, perception is distorted by virtue of the fact that since the '50s, TV and other media have created more 'famous' people, the first couple of generations of which are now firmly in the 60-90's range.

So the bottom line is that God hasn't got it in for people we all like. They're simply subject to the same whims of the universe as the rest of us, but we get to hear it all a lot more.