Celebrity Death Thread 2023: Year-End Speedrun

[Zealot]

One of my great-grandfathers died of a morphine overdose. He had stomach cancer, I believe, and the doctors just gave him a drip to use at home.

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[kuronosan]

Actually it's not like saying that at all. You keep strawpersoning there, smart guy.

[Andalusian girls]

well that's a pretty rude way to talk about Zel's great grandfather

[Zealot]

Grandpa Sam was a real person and not made of straw.

[Gredival]

If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ketamine overdose.

https://twitter.com/Calibaneur/statu...91979334713462

Good parenting in action

[kuronosan]

well that's a pretty rude way to talk about Zel's great grandfather

I put a lot of effort into that post only for it to come out after his and am now sad. I should OD on Cannabis.

[Zealot]

Laura Lynch, one of the original Dixie Chicks, 65. Car accident.

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[Melena]

Lee Sun-Kyan from Parasite found dead.

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[Yuri-G]

Lee Sun-Kyan from Parasite found dead.

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apparent suicide. all too common among South Korean celebrities for a variety of cultural reasons.

[archibaldcrane]

apparent suicide. all too common among South Korean celebrities for a variety of cultural reasons.

Seems like something more specific than "cultural issues"

Lee, 48, who played the head of a wealthy household in the 2019 film, had faced police questioning three times over accusations of illegal drug use amid a government crackdown, with one session running 19 hours over the weekend.

The actor had said he was tricked into taking drugs by a bar hostess trying to blackmail him, the Yonhap news agency reported.

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[Yuri-G]

Seems like something more specific than "cultural issues"



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killing yourself because you were accused of drug use is exactly the kind of cultural pressure I was referring to.

[Byrthnoth]

well, arguably a 19 hour detention and interrogation isn't a cultural pressure

that's a governmental policy decision

[thetruepandagod]

smoke weed, commit suicide. a tale as old as time

[Tyrath]

well, arguably a 19 hour detention and interrogation isn't a cultural pressure

that's a governmental policy decision

And those policies are in no way affected by the culture amirite.

Yuri is spot on with this

[Melena]

smoke weed, commit suicide. a tale as old as time

Japan is zero tolerance. South Korea seems to be the same. A single joint there can get you a few years in jail

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[Xno Kappa]

I've always been under the assumption the drastic drug laws in that area of the world were more about the golden triangle.

[Cantih]

Remember, it's prohibition that made the mafia a menace.

[Anoat]

Tom Smothers of the Smothers Brothers comedy duo has died at 86

[kuronosan]

I wonder if he'll have a punch line at the celebration of life.

[Cyn]

Gaston Glock, founder of... Glock.


https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/27/busin...ies/index.html