Celebrity Death Thread 2023: Year-End Speedrun

[Bombur]

Dire Straits guitarist Jack Sonni passed away at the age of 68.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/01/enter...cli/index.html

[Bombur]

Singer/Songwriter Gary Wright passed away at age 80. He is best known for the song Dream Weaver.

https://www.tmz.com/2023/09/04/dream...ght-dead-dies/

[psychodwarf]

End stage liver failure, in my opinion, would probably be the worst disease to live with. It’s an awful life. The most effective medication to take gives you uncontrollable diarrhea. Your liver can’t process ammonia to convert to urea, so ammonia builds up in the blood to sometimes dangerous levels. To rid yourself of ammonia, there’s a few options. The cheapest and most effective is lactulose. This medication pulls ammonia from the blood and into the colon to be shat out.

If you aren’t compliant with the medication to stabilize the ammonia buildup, or other factors like electrolyte imbalances, infection, or a GI bleed cause ammonia to elevate, the ammonia will work its way to your brain where it’ll cause hepatic encephalopathy. This causes intense confusion, sleep problems, irritability. It’s dementia x10. To get the ammonia levels in check, we often have to shove tubes from patients mouths/nose to their stomach and dump in lactulose because the patients may have difficulty understanding how to take their meds or they are obtunded and unresponsive and cannot take the medication on their own. Regardless, they certainly are not able to figure out how to use a toilet…so they shit themselves non-stop.

On top of all of that, the liver cannot filter blood quickly and, like a traffic jam, blood will back up. It backs up to the esophagus, which causes the vessels in the esophagus to become engorged (esophageal varicies) which can “pop” and cause a large bleed into the GI tract which can only be fixed with an endoscope. This bleed can also cause ammonia levels to rise, exacerbating the hepatic encephalopathy. I’ve popped varicies putting down a tube to their stomach. It’s not a good time for anyone.

It’s a miserable existence. Don’t be an alcoholic.

That's how my little brother went out in December. Felt so helpless.

[Tomiko]

Saw Krayzie Bone was trending on Twitter. Checked it and it's not looking good.

https://twitter.com/DverseMentality/...95777284595794

[kuronosan]

See him at the crossroads.

[Qalbert]

https://twitter.com/KTLA/status/1706443087260885502

[Cantih]

Aww man.

[zoobernut]

No Duckie!

[Anoat]

RIP Dumbledore 2

Michael Gambon has died at 82

[kuronosan]

Fucking Snape

[thetruepandagod]

this may be the straw that breaks AG's back

[Cream Soda]

Wasn't that like 10 years ago?

[Cantih]

https://youtu.be/3W7pLkFkVjg?t=313

[Abandon]

Wasn't that like 10 years ago?

you were screaming this shit in 2018 in seattle

[Tomiko]

Surprised it wasn't posted here and only in Poopdeck.

https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein/sta...55060262817943

[Mertron]

she never backed away from a fight

unless it was a bunch of kids protesting climate change

[archibaldcrane]

she never backed away from a fight

unless it was a bunch of kids protesting climate change

https://twitter.com/adb0wen/status/1...g7QSrz7AA&s=19

[Mertron]

killary strikes again

[archibaldcrane]

killary strikes again

Vaxxed?

[Mertron]

Vaxxed?

https://twitter.com/ah_pod/status/17...634045345?s=46