Carrie Fisher RIP

[madducks]

Carrie Fisher, best known as Princess Leia in the Star Wars movies has died four days after she suffered a cardiac event on a flight from London to Los Angeles. She was 60 years old. RIP Princess Leia.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/27/entert...ars/index.html

[Piney Boy]

Sad. This has been a horrible year for celebrities.

[cardboardbox]

sad, too young.

Assuming ep 8 was done filming already, I wonder how this changes ep 9. She didnt have a large part in ep 7 but was a nice way to tie the trilogies together.

[Piney Boy]

sad, too young.

Assuming ep 8 was done filming already, I wonder how this changes ep 9. She didnt have a large part in ep 7 but was a nice way to tie the trilogies together.

EP 8 finished filming in July. Yeah going to be an interesting to see what they do in 9.

[swampdragon]

I assume everyone has seen this

https://youtu.be/VI-pwktI8AQ

[Judge Jude]

now her famous mom Debbie Reynolds RIP, too

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...in-rain-724101

She was 84.

"She's with Carrie," said Reynolds' son, Todd.

[madducks]

now her famous mom Debbie Reynolds RIP, too

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...in-rain-724101

She was 84.

"She's with Carrie," said Reynolds' son, Todd.

Terrible. Heard on radio news that she was at Carrie Fisher's home making funeral arrangements with another family member when she suddenly became ill and was rushed to the hospital where she died.

This only confirms my belief that people can die from a broken heart even though the coroners report has to list some secondary condition which is easier to identify.

[revo]

now her famous mom Debbie Reynolds RIP, too

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...in-rain-724101

She was 84.

"She's with Carrie," said Reynolds' son, Todd.

That's just fucking insane!!

[GwynnInTheHall]

That's just fucking insane!!

Perfect sentiment.

[onejayhawk]

Terrible. Heard on radio news that she was at Carrie Fisher's home making funeral arrangements with another family member when she suddenly became ill and was rushed to the hospital where she died.

This only confirms my belief that people can die from a broken heart even though the coroners report has to list some secondary condition which is easier to identify.

They have done studies and claim it is statistically cooincidence. Pretty tall coincidence.

J

[cardboardbox]

"She's with Carrie," said Reynolds' son, Todd.

Losing your sister and mother on back to back days has got to be unbelievably hard.

[onejayhawk]

Losing your sister and mother on back to back days has got to be unbelievably hard.

Losing both together can be less stressful than losing them separately. The quoted line is one reason. There is a thread of comfort in the thought that they are not alone.

J

[nullnor]

i think next year im going to go on a immortality regime. eating Astragalus or taking TA-65 and lengthening my telomeres. it could give you cancer tho. there's another company that found a compound that activates telomerase enzyme at 16%. but they are still in development. theoretically longer telomeres would prevent cancer. yet telomerase is something that fuels it. so then i guess you have to make sure you don't have any fucked up DNA before you take it.

i should have given it to my cat, but she was already pretty messed up. and this stuff is kind of new.

they been giving Rapamycin to dogs in an official anti-aging test with good results. that can give you diabetes. that's a an old drug too.

weird that immortality, cancer and diabetes are linked, figure out one and you figure out the others. it's just around the corner tho. i definitely recommend giving those two things to older pets tho. and myself. i wasn't planning on doing it but the science is sound. so i figure why not.

also i think, in batman vs superman, wonder womans powers will bring superman back to life. when supermans mother threw dirt on his coffin. wonder woman has healing powers from the earth like that. she can heal herself like that when mortally wounded, but the gods frown upon it. so it's a rare thing. not sure she can do it for someone else.

[nullnor]

different parts of your body age at different speeds. your heart ages the slowest. and breasts age faster. this is why you don't see ppl dying of heart cancer but of breast cancer. boobs age the fastest. and i guess that means prostates too.

i guess it's ironic that the parts of your body that create life are more suceptical to cancer. and that's logical if a purpose is to pass your genes into the next life form and then die.

at first glance it seems like a flawed plan, as far as nature trending towards intelligence. you'd think having the ability to store information out of the body and passed down to the next generation will eventually be better than doing it naturally with proteins.

you can die of heartbreak, but it's more a factor of things. for example, most heart attacks occur in the morning right after you wake up, when your blood is thicker and you've been sleeping. even your body being slightly shorter from gravity contributes. so it's more of a respiratory thing. and perhaps flying on airplanes with a heart condition has a factor.

[TranaGreg]

... i guess it's ironic that the parts of your body that create life are more suceptical to cancer. and that's logical if a purpose is to pass your genes into the next life form and then die.

at first glance it seems like a flawed plan, as far as nature trending towards intelligence. you'd think having the ability to store information out of the body and passed down to the next generation will eventually be better than doing it naturally with proteins.
...

I guess it's a matter of perspective; from a short term viewpoint (e.g. a human lifetime) you're right, but from an epoch perspective, well, I guess the genetic trickle-down approach has worked pretty well.