Writer's Block: Untimely Passing

[i_amthecosmos]

[Error: unknown template qotd]I was somewhat affected by John Lennon's death, but I was only ten, so it wasn't such a big thing.

What really got me was the car accident death of Razzle, Hanoi Rocks's drummer. I had just tentively embraced that band as the one that would get me through junior high, and then I lost them. It only made me more attached, a syndrome a friend years later called my "martyr complex". He was not wrong, the vast majority of my heroes either died young or should have. I can't seem to help it.

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[cerulgalactus.livejournal.com]

For me, first and foremost - Phil Hartman. Sure, a lot of big influence people in my life died before then (Jim Henson, Dean Martin, etc), but that was before I was really truly emotionally effected by the loss. Hartman, on the other hand - well, you know how certain folk say "I know where I was when JFK was shot"? I can tell you exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard that Phil Hartman was killed.

Asides from him - Owen Hart, Brian Pillman, Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit. I've been a huge pro wrestling fan for over 20 years now, and those guys were some of my all-time favourites. Each came out of left field (especially Owen) and each one knocked me on my ass (regardless of what Chris Benoit actually did and the fact that he became a murdering scumbag, his in-ring behaviour was beyond reproach).

[i-amthecosmos.livejournal.com]

Jim Henson was hard. I think I was in shock.

I think I was most affected by Eddie Guerrero's death of all of the wrestlers you mention, since I had seen him being interviewed on tv and stuff. I don't watch wrestling, but I liked him.

People dying in pointless accidents or from stalkers seem to affect me the most. It's the "situation out of your hands" factor.