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#1 Actress and singer Olivia Newton-John dies aged 73

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 8:48 pm
by pre65
Another "inspiration" gone. :wink:

#2 Re: Actress and singer Olivia Newton-John dies aged 73

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:11 pm
by shane
Look, you lot, could you just stop dying please? It’s getting to be too much to bear.

It occurs to me that we are experiencing a new phenomenon. My parents were born around 1920, so their late teens and early twenties were spent in the war years which carried their own horrors, but our generation born in the fifties was exposed to an explosion of access to radio, TV and recorded sound in our teens, and developed a large number of more or less intense relationships with musicians, actors and other assorted artists who often went on to have profound lifelong effects on us.
Most of these characters were maybe five or ten years older than us, so now we approach our later years they’re dropping like flies. It seems that hardly a day goes by without hearing that another figure who lives in my mind as young, vital and full of creative energy has gone.
In a way, it was easier to accept the loss of Hendrix, Joplin et al as romantic casualties of the rock and roll lifestyle. Now, each new passing seems to bring home the thought that if they have gone, I won’t be far behind!

#3 Re: Actress and singer Olivia Newton-John dies aged 73

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:28 pm
by pre65
Living to a ripe old age, being unable to cope with inability to control bodily functions and perhaps having dementure as well does not sound at all appealing either. :cry:

#4 Re: Actress and singer Olivia Newton-John dies aged 73

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:50 pm
by IslandPink
pre65 wrote: Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:28 pm .. and perhaps having dementure as well ...
You need to get some false teeth for that.

#5 Re: Actress and singer Olivia Newton-John dies aged 73

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:58 pm
by pre65
IslandPink wrote: Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:50 pm
pre65 wrote: Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:28 pm .. and perhaps having dementure as well ...
You need to get some false teeth for that.
That's what dementia does for you. :lol:

#6 Re: Actress and singer Olivia Newton-John dies aged 73

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 10:46 pm
by ed
what fun if you've got both........like me....

#7 Re: Actress and singer Olivia Newton-John dies aged 73

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2022 1:21 pm
by rowuk
Cause of death is undisclosed, but she had repeated bouts with breast cancer.

Those so inclined can support her Cancer institute:
https://www.onjcancercentre.org
That could help slow down some of the deaths.

I have never been mellow.