Death Aftershock

[hypernova]

So now Billy May's been found dead in his home.  Celebrity deaths have been hitting like a series of earthquakes this past week:

First went McMahon.  Not the huge celebrity by present standards IMO, but an omen of bigger things to come, like a precursor to the big earthquake.
Then Fawcett.  A rather large blow, as she's regarded as such a great human, and an inspiration in the fight against cancer.
Then as if Fawcett wasn't large enough, Jackson goes, which absolutely rocks the globe.
And now the aftershock, as a small, TV commercial celebrity passes along.

Getting kinda freaky...

[97thruhiker]

No doubt, I sort of enjoyed the Billy May - Shamwow guy threads that popped up on here in the past.

[SirPeale]

McMahon wasn't a surprise, he was 86 and had failing health.  I read somewhere he had cancer, but I don't know if that's true.

Farrah wasn't a surprise, she had terminal cancer and was doing /very/ poorly.  I'm actually surprised she lasted as long as she did.

Jackson, OTOH, was a HUGE shock to everyone.

Hayes...well, that was just weird.

[SavannahLion]

So now Billy May's been found dead in his home.  Celebrity deaths have been hitting like a series of earthquakes this past week:

Billy Mays, isn't he some kind of singer or something? I thought he died yonkers ago.

Checks Wikipedia

Oh, the informercial guy. There's a Billy May and this guy is Billy Mays.

I used to watch Mays when I'm sick at home and nothing but informercials were on. He just launched his own show of some kind. Pitchmen or something like that? Been meaning to watch, but I can't really bring myself to watch a documentary about infomercials, Just seems too much like an infomercial.

Don't know if I would really consider him in the same league as McMahon, Fawcett or Jackson. Those guys (and gal) were freaking huge and well known. Mays is like one of those sidekick actors from Married with Children or Home Improvement. Everyone knows what he looks like and what he does, but his name really isn't well known.

Still I can't imagine a whole lot of other faces trying to sell me all kinds of crap. It's either him or that dude who invented "hair in a can."

[ChadTower]

Jackson, OTOH, was a HUGE shock to everyone.

Was it really?  He's been in the top tier of most death pools for a decade or more.

[Ummon]

I wasn't shocked by any of it. Jackson was mildly surprising, only because I hadn't heard anything ill about his health - ever that I can think of. But whatever. Change, change my dears.

[Mauzy]

I was shocked by MJ and Billy Mays (actually kinda got into Pitchmen within the last couple weeks...). Ed and Farrah weren't a shock for previously stated reasons.