# People we've "lost" this year **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 14, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139 "2016-01-14T16:14:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/21 "2016-01-14T18:16:23Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > If you want to frame it from the point of view of the deceased, its perfectly accepted to say “He died”; nobody would say “He lost himself”. But we could say “He lost his life.”. OP is an insensitive git. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/22 "2016-01-14T18:16:32Z")
> [@BrazenPirate](#): > > With the possible exception of Elvis, every celebrity we’ve ever “lost” has never been found. Can we just call a spade a spade here? Why do people have to indulge in pathetic euphemisms? What’s wrong with “dead” or “died?” They’re succinct and descriptive. We lost [country singer Craig Strickland](http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/field-notes/update-country-singer-missing-after-oklahoma-duck-hunt) a couple of weeks ago. They found him. Dead, but he was found. I don’t know if that helps your point or not. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/23 "2016-01-14T18:25:59Z")
> [@Tithonus](#): > > On the bright side, Donald Trump is also 69… You may need to get him a British passport though, and I don’t think the Brits will be interested. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/24 "2016-01-14T18:45:28Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > We lost [country singer Craig Strickland](http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/field-notes/update-country-singer-missing-after-oklahoma-duck-hunt) a couple of weeks ago. They found him. Dead, but he was found. > > I don’t know if that helps your point or not. But they always find them in the last place they look when they’re lost. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/25 "2016-01-14T19:34:41Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Kenny sniffing glue, he was 12 years old > Fell from the roof on East Two-nine > Bowie had leukemia, 69, > he looked like 55 when he died, > he was a friend of mine. > Those are people we lost, lost. Great song. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/26 "2016-01-14T20:03:03Z")
One of my Facebook friends posted that Alan Rickman “walked the rainbow today”. If you want to complain about fucking pathetic euphemisms, start with that turd please. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/27 "2016-01-14T20:05:42Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > One of my Facebook friends posted that Alan Rickman “walked the rainbow today”. If you want to complain about fucking pathetic euphemisms, start with that turd please. That sounds like he went gay. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/28 "2016-01-14T20:10:11Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > I “lost” my husband permanently in November. I’ll damn well phrase it that way if I want to and I suppose others can just get over it. On the other hand, if you prefer to be pedantic over something so inconsequential to you, yet vitally important to another, beware of being labeled a wankified git. Just saying. “Wankified git” Nice. 😛 Showing once again why **faithfool** is one of my favorite SD posters. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/29 "2016-01-14T20:13:15Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > That sounds like he went gay. Or ate way, way too many Skittles. Or both. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/30 "2016-01-14T20:37:44Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > One of my Facebook friends posted that Alan Rickman “walked the rainbow today”. If you want to complain about fucking pathetic euphemisms, start with that turd please. I thought that was for animals? ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/31 "2016-01-14T20:42:21Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I thought that was for animals? Yeah, I thought crossing the rainbow bridge was for pets? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/32 "2016-01-14T21:01:21Z")
Annecdote: A few years ago I had a bad stomach flu and was heavily dehydrated, and ended up in the emergency room to get IV fluids. My wife came looking for me and was told that I had been admitted to the main part of the hospital while in fact I was being checked out. I ended up taking a taxi home while she was still at the hospital trying to figure out what happened to me and was told that they couldn’t find any record of me. Eventually she stormed out of the Hospital grumbling loudly. On the way out someone asked her what was wrong and she said in a voice that was obviously more annoyed than sad, “I can’t believe how incompetent they are here, they lost my husband.” She said his eyes got so large as he stared at her in stunned silence, until she realized what she had said and told him that she meant it literally rather than euphemistically. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/33 "2016-01-14T21:01:52Z")
OP, don’t worry. Those people aren’t lost. They’ll be along any minute now, they are just late. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/34 "2016-01-14T21:03:35Z")
So, is the OP saying that all dead celebrities are behind the dryer? > [@bobot](#): > > We lost Lemmy, but that was last year. Lemmy died last week. Unless this is a pop culture reference I’m missing. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/35 "2016-01-14T21:12:10Z")
He was lost forever Dec. 28 2015 ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/36 "2016-01-14T21:13:08Z")
Newsbreak In a tragic turn of events- following the sad loss of David Bowie, Terrible news emerged that Justin Bieber is still alive. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/37 "2016-01-14T21:16:22Z")
> [@](#): > > He was lost forever Dec. 28 2015 Huh. So he was. Time flies! Except that he’s dead, not lost, if you don’t want the OP to come to your house and punch you in the face. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/38 "2016-01-14T21:46:15Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Yeah, I thought crossing the rainbow bridge was for pets? Then what sort of bridge do people cross? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/39 "2016-01-14T22:23:35Z")
Sadly, we seem to have “lost” **BrazenPirate** , who may have been sucked into a black hole in the ethernet. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139/40 "2016-01-14T22:25:27Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > “Wankified git” Nice. 😛 > > Showing once again why **faithfool** is one of my favorite SD posters. Aw, shucks. Twern’t nothin.’ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-weve-lost-this-year/743139.md?page=3)