What's killing all the celebrities?

I am.

I don’t know, it’s pretty strange. I wonder if there are any comparable stretches in history where a bunch of celebrities died.

People die everyday from heart failure, drug abuse, or whiplash in an airplane crash. This happens to 5 random people on a daily basis. But if it’s 5 random celebrities, then woooaaaa. I don’t get why this is getting so much attention.

Coincidence, dude.

Same thing that’s killing all the rest of us. Life.

Celebrity.

Let’s see now, Michael Jackson probably died of heart failure but we won’t know for sure until the autopsy is fully completed in a month or so. Billy Mays also may have died of a heart attack but again we won’t know until the autopsy is fully completed. Both men had a history of heart problems.

And then there was David Carradine, who was in his 60s, and died of hanging under circumstances that people generally don’t want to discuss.

Then, Gail Storm and Ed McMahon were in their 80’s so they weren’t in their 50’s, and odds are it was time. Farrah Fawcett died from cancer.

I really don’t see a pattern here.

Let’s be fair here. Billy Mays was barely a celebrity.

Papparazzi.

This guy.

Must agree with AC. I never even heard of Billy Mays.

It’s Gale Storm, officially. I should know. In the Jewish tradition, my parents had to find an English name beginning with a G (after my dead great-grandmother, Golda). They picked the “Gail” version but told me it was because of Gale Storm.

@gailcalled, you were named after Gale Storm, of My Little Margie zany comedy fame? Now, that puts a different light on things.

My Hebrew name is Golda. Does that change anything? Personally, I have always wanted a name with two syllables, like Abigail or Britney.

(Yes to “My Little Margie”.)

Actually, Abigail has three syllables.

Where I grew up, “Gail” had two syllables.

So did “mine.”

@Darwin: So it does. How about Abbie?
@Jeruba: How did your kinfolk pronounce “mail,” “sail,” “jail, “whale,” “pail”? (And where was this again?)

“Mayull, sayull, jayull,” etc.. And “myinn” (opposite of “yoowiz”). Quincy (Quinzee). But it wasn’t my kinfolk, who were all from elsewhere. It was the neighbor kids, whom I wasn’t supposed to talk like. Like whom I wasn’t supposed to talk.

@All the Grossmans who used to be my relatives (and whom I loved) lived either in Quincy or Hull.