2016 hasn’t finished yet, now taken Watership Down author Richard Adams.
🙁

FFS! Enough’s enough (of these posts, not people dying)!

Read The Plague Dogs when I was a youngster.

Now gone with El-ahrairah.

RIP

FFS! Enough’s enough (of these posts, not people dying)!

You’d rather we just ignored the fact that so many people that many on here have grown up with have died?

The film adaptation still makes me well up!!

You’d rather we just ignored the fact that so many people that many on here have grown up with have died?

Yes. Roll on 2017, hopefully the grim reaper will start with all those blaming 2016 for taking away so many ‘celebs’.

I live not far from Watership Down. It’s on my local loop. Last summer, I was sitting on the down, soaking up the birdsong when an American couple approached me and asked, “Is this where Watership Down was filmed? ”

[RESPECTIVELY]

While I acknowledge that death is indeed sad, there are factors on these threads that I can’t relate to; for one, people are dying every second of every day the world over; for two, does celebrity status in some way make death more significant; and thirdly, given that one day is much as the next, is there any merit in distinguishing the ‘when’ factor at all, after all years are very much an arbitrary way to catalogue time…

[RESPECTIVELY]

The BBC news website is about 80% obituary right now. Aaaargh!

96 I believe, a good innings. I should hate him really given what Watership Down did to me as a kid…

96 is a pretty good knock.

For services rendered to giving kids nightmares he will be remembered

You’d rather we just ignored the fact that so many people that many on here have grown up with have died?

maybe we should have a thread for every individual Aleppo victim?

some young celeb dies, fair enough, but a 96 year old is going a bit far. i think though it’s the race to be the first to “announce” it on the forum that is pushing this