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u/LucyVialli 14h ago
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u/ThomasDominus 14h ago
It’s time that we, as a society, stop being so selfish and start thinking about what kind of planet we’re leaving for Keith Richards.
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u/LucyVialli 14h ago
I think we need to study Keith Richards, to find out what makes him an unkillable old bastid.
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u/vicariousgluten 13h ago
He’s taken enough alcohol and drugs to preserve his organs while they are still inside his body.
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u/Flow-Control 10h ago
"Keith, we can't do any more drugs because you already fucking did them all!"
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u/Heirsandgraces 13h ago
He’s the druggy version of Mr Burns, all those chemicals inadvertently working in synergy
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u/Lord_Phoenix95 12h ago
I thought that supposed to be Ozzy Osborne. I know he's since passed but still, he had so much drugs that he couldn't remember what happened for a huge period of time.
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u/stormdraggy 10h ago
See the problem was that Ozzy stopped and died from drug loss when blood began returning to his body.
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u/historianLA 11h ago
Too much of a good thing for Ozzy... Keith has figured out the ratios and dosage for longevity.
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u/brijazz012 13h ago
"For every cigarette you smoke, a year is taken off of your life and given to Keith Richards." - a joke someone told me once
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u/SlimeTempest42 12h ago
My low stakes conspiracy theory is he’s dead but no one has told him so he keeps going, like Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff and not falling until
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u/Automatic_Union8147 12h ago
A taxi driver in Chichester told me that he saw a poor old man at the bar in a pub and took pity on him. He went up and offered to buy him a drink, thinking that maybe he was struggling in life. He turned around and it was Keef!!!
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u/HendoDelta 13h ago
He did so much drugs, drink, women, hard partying etc his body has just built up a massive tolerance to anything that might kill him.
Bit like if Wolverine played a musical instrument.
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u/beemojee 8h ago edited 4h ago
Robin Williams had a bit where he goes "Jack Nicholson has done every drug known to mankind. He's the only guy in the world that Keith Richards would go 'I have to go home now, Jack.'"
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u/NotACyclopsHonest 13h ago
Keith will still be here at the heat-death of the universe, huffing the fumes from a neutron star in order to stave off the bottomless cold at the end of all things.
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u/SentryCake 13h ago
I’m shocked that he’s only 82.
People were making jokes about this in the 90s. I thought he was a lot older than he is because of it.
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u/spread_panic 11h ago
A real "live fast die young" persona that just sort of, didn't die young, when many of his peers around him were.
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u/Lukebekz 13h ago
My working theory for him is that he has taken so much drugs (variety and quantity) that he chemically preserved himself.
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u/anasannanas 14h ago
Didn’t he give up coke on his 70th or something?
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u/Strong_Ebb_9953 14h ago
Coke gave up
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u/iDontLikeChimneys 14h ago
Brother I have been sick as fuck the last two weeks and this was a good laugh.
I may be on the end of the line but these types of comments keep me rolling. Thank you. Be well today
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u/godh8sme 14h ago
I'm fairly convinced he's been dead since the late 90s early 00s and nobody has bothered to tell him.
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u/Bongressman 13h ago
Always number one on these lists! Man has been pickled. Impervious to harm.
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u/Two_bears_Hi_fiving 14h ago
My hero Michael J Fox. I've known alot of people with Parkinson's who have perished from it but the fact he is out there still kicking the illness' arse and still acting too. Honestly of every celebrity I've met only about 4 I would trade all of those experiences to meet him. I respect the hell out of that man ♥️🫡
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u/anasannanas 14h ago
Sad day when he goes.
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u/Two_bears_Hi_fiving 14h ago
Don't think I'll ever mourn a celeb, I never have. But MJF is the exception to that. The world will be worse off when he departs.
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u/jackfinished 14h ago
I felt the same until Anthony Bourdain killed himself. I still get bummed when I remember.
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u/steveofthejungle 12h ago
Learning that he was only 32 when he was diagnosed sounds so devastating. Glad the dude’s still kicking
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u/theycallmemomo 12h ago
I was just watching MTV last night and they had a rerun of the 9/11 tribute concert playing. At one point, Michael J. Fox walks out and starts introducing some of the FDNY. I'd forgotten what a youthful Michael J. Fox looked like before Parkinsons fully took over, although the tremors weren't as pronounced back then.
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u/co1token 14h ago
Mel Brooks should be at the top of this list
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u/_THX_1138_ 14h ago
DVD, Mel Brooks, and David Attenborough are all over 100 and currently all alive
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u/fh3131 14h ago
DVDs are barely 40 years old
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u/DustyScharole 14h ago
DVDs are 40? brb, checking myself into an old folks home.
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u/fh3131 14h ago
Sorry, my bad, you're still young. I was thinking CDs, DVDs are 30 yo
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u/JFeth 13h ago
Andy Dick has had many close calls with drugs and has pissed off a lot of people over the years. I could see him going out from either one and I'm shocked he is still around.
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u/schlongmonger 12h ago edited 11h ago
I'd be broke if in 2006 you offered to bet he'd be alive in 20 years.
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u/wydok 13h ago edited 10h ago
Phil Hartman was murdered by his own wife and meanwhile Andy Dick still walks the earth. It's a travesty
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u/colblair 14h ago
All of the Jackass guys (besides Ryan Dunn who did die....)
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u/Danihilton 13h ago
Especially Steve-O. He survives everything. But I've seen Bam Magera now hanging with Tony Hawk again. He looked so healthy and I'm happy for him
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u/randyc87 10h ago
I don't know about "healthy" but it looks like he's off the booze and drugs which is good.
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u/Kalesche 10h ago
Shatner. Just because I feel so bad all those people associated with his biggest memories are disappearing.
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u/Solo60 9h ago
Shatner is 95, and recently was on a podcast. What I found funny was his story involving Spencer Tracy. He complimented Spencer during the filming of Trial at Nuremburg and Spencer took it as insulting, not speaking to him again. If you look back at William Shatners career, Shatner did the same thing to other actors who have noted Shatner's rudeness.
In the Shatner Roast, Nichelle Nichols remarked that until the kiss, she had "never pressed my lips to an a**hole before"
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u/Blametheorangejuice 8h ago
When I was much younger, I was a devout Trekkie and read all of the biographies out about the TOS cast.
All of the TOS cast: Shatner sure was an asshole
Shatner’s bio: I sure was an asshole
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u/EstablishmentHead734 11h ago
David Attenborough. He's the reason I'm a biologist. I will be heart broken when he goes. He's over 100 years old
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u/SteveDinn 7h ago
And still narrating nature documentaries... His is definitely the voice in my head when I look at any random nature scene.
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u/Bacon_Bits- 10h ago
Dick van Dyke
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u/Olympicsizedturd 10h ago
It's crazy to me that can I remember watching Singing in The Rain sitting on the floor of my grandparents house as a little kid, 40 years ago. They passed away 20 years ago and Dick Van Dyke is still around. He's the last vestige of old Hollywood.
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u/Horseshoe_dodgeball 9h ago
And what's even crazier is, Dick Van Dyke was old 40 years ago!
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u/NoDoOversInLife 14h ago
No.
Absolutely not.
Throw out names and were likely to lose someone we can't afford to lose
RIP Dolly 😭
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u/10Robins 14h ago
In that case, perhaps we need a . . . DIFFERENT type of list.
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u/NoDoOversInLife 14h ago
Yes!!! we can all telepathically recite a specific name😉
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u/DanJFriedman 10h ago
The fact that no one has said Magic Johnson highlights for me just how few people on this platform lived through the heights of the AIDS epidemic
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u/honeysuckle23 6h ago
My first thought as well. Every time we see a PrEP ad on tv, my husband and I marvel that things have come so far. HIV was a terrifying and horrible death sentence that, even as kids, we were so aware of. Even if you had money, it wasn’t much better. Now is not only manageable but preventable with pretty widely-available options. It really is unbelievable.
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u/AnswersOddQuestions 14h ago
Gary Busy. His Instagram videos are just unhinged nonsense at this point.
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u/anasannanas 14h ago
He’s been unhinged since 1982
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u/SomeGuyInSanJoseCa 9h ago
Actually, since 1998.
He rode a motorcycle without a helmet, crashed, was in a coma, and experienced permanent brain damage that reduced his executive control.
I still don't get how anyone would ride a motorcycle without a helmet.
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u/SplitSecondImmortal 14h ago
He came out of the womb unhinged
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u/subservenicedream 14h ago
Maybe a little but his behavior is more likely a result of traumatic brain injury.
Like Roseanne , and Alex jones, a good knock to the head sent them sideways
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u/I_see_farts 13h ago
Didn't he get into a motorcycle accident and split his skull open without a helmet? I've heard that it really fucked with his impulse control.
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u/PunishedWolf4 13h ago
Yes he did, and I remember him saying he could see himself on the operating table being worked on and angels around him
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u/gg_bene 14h ago
Donald 'I shit myself' Trump
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u/Ok_District2853 14h ago
I don't get it. He's 80. I had a bet he wouldn't survive his first term. He only eats taco bell and McDonalds. He only drinks diet coke. They pump him full of drugs to rev him up for speeches. Oh and he was addicted to speed for like 50 years, maybe 60.
How is this man still alive? My healthy brother in law is dead at 70. It makes no sense.
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u/chaos8803 13h ago
Evil doesn't die. Netanyahu is old as shit, McConnell somehow still has enough blood pumping to puppeteer him through voting, Kissinger lived to 100, and Grassley has been a senator longer than most of us have been alive.
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u/Vectorman1989 13h ago
The common thread is that these people are rich enough to afford the type of healthcare that is out of reach of everyone else. Trump is getting experimental drugs for example. As he said in a speech recently, he has a doctor that's only a couple minutes away at all times.
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u/JennyW93 12h ago
If wealth were really the defining feature, we’d still have Dolly. As a clinical research scientist, I do just think evil people are too narcissistic to die.
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u/DemonicEgo 12h ago
Ah, but you forget that Dolly was so pure and good that she just ascended to a higher plane of existence.
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u/nacaporvida 12h ago
In Spanish the saying is “hierba mala nunca muere” which translates to bad weeds never die.
It is the evil!
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u/YounomsayinMawfk 11h ago
Putin as well. I had some hope when he revealed he had cancer. I've lost people I love to cancer but with him, I was rooting for the cancer.
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u/droidtron 14h ago
He got covid bad, thought that'd be the poetic end to him, but being president means experimental drugs the public can't access.
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u/NewAndImprovedJess 14h ago
I thought covid would take him too.my conclusion is that the devil can't stand him either.
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u/BlueSpotBingo 13h ago
He’s privy to stuff I’m sure regular Americans are not. I’d bet he’s got an on-call team by armed with IV’s and banana bags filled with all manner of vitamins, restorative medicines, and god knows what else. He will survive this term. Get used to him being a pain in the ass for 2 more years.
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u/Ok_District2853 12h ago
That can't be it. Rich people die all the time. Some of them I know. Like Dick Cheney artificial heart rich. Didn't save them. If anything the experimental treatments made their last days more uncomfortable. There's some hope: His last days are excruciatingly painful.
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u/shidokanartist 13h ago
Trump is going to live to like 110 just to spite us all
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u/Illuminatus-Prime 14h ago
Carol Burnett (93) and Dick Van Dyke (100) -- both were very popular in the '60s and '70s.
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u/opendefication 13h ago
I was surprised on a separate sub, Herb Alpert is still playing shows at ninety something. As a vinyl dude I see his shit in every old dusty collection, Rock on Herb.
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u/whitemanwhocantjump 14h ago
Alan Alda is not only still alive at 90 with Parkinson's, he's also still actively working, hosting the Clear and Vivid podcast.
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u/Moose__Juice 11h ago
I just found out recently that not only is Charo still alive, but she’s still performing.
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u/SkolfromIA 10h ago
It's sad that no one realizes that she is one of the greatest flamenco guitarists of all time.
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u/goddessofspiders 12h ago edited 8h ago
Literally everyone in Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction lineup are still alive when all of them (with exception of Axl Rose) have overdosed several times.
Along with Heart failure, Strokes, Pancreas bursting. Yet all 5 lived to be in their 60s. It’s a miracle they all survived the 90’s. Especially Steven Adler and Slash.
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u/spiritofjosh 13h ago
Keith Richards. Dude looks like he’s already been dead for a decade because of a LOT of drugs but still does his thing.
Ironically their drummer, Charlie Watts, was the one who died when he was known to party the least out of the bunch.
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u/Useful_Region9179 11h ago
Charlie got hooked on heroin in his 40s. Which is fairly unusual to get hooked on drugs like that at 40!
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u/Shitty_Pickle 14h ago
Eugenia Cooney
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u/skinny_genes96 11h ago
I genuinely don't get this - I've had anorexia/bulimia for 15yrs & have been so close to death many times at a much higher bmi than her. Like my heart was so close to arresting & my body was shutting down & I was nowhere near as sick as her.
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u/BlackCaaaaat 12h ago
YouTubers and influencers at both ends of the extreme weight scale have lasted a lot longer than I thought, and Eugenia is one of them. I wonder where she’s at these days, I hope she got better.
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u/Independent-women0 14h ago
All the pop singers who became famous at a very young age and I think the best example is the queen herself, Britney Spears.
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u/MoochyBond 13h ago
John Astin (The OG Gomez Addams)
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u/InviteAromatic6124 12h ago
It's actually insane he outlived all the other Addams Family actors, including the actors who played the children
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u/BlueWhatsit 11h ago
Not a celebrity, but once married to one. Maria Holly, Buddy Holly’s widow, is still alive at age 96. She’s outlived just about every 50’s rock and roll singer I can think of. Except for maybe Dion DiMucci, but his career really kicked off at the very end of the decade (1959).
So, yes, to stay more on topic, Dion is stilll kicking, too, at age 87.
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u/FunkensteinMD88 13h ago
George Clinton of Parliament Funkadelic fame smoked crack for 30 years and was probably propping up a large percentage of Bolivia’s economy for at least a decade before that and he is still going strong and touring at 80+. He was never one for alcohol or opiates so that helps
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u/Nerje 14h ago
Ric Flair
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u/SecretAsianMan42069 14h ago
20 years ago he was hitting on a friend of mine 35 years younger than him. Gave her his number. We'd call him up occasionally, as for a woo, give him a big cheer and that's be the end of it. Now he won't answer anything from our area code. Sigh
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u/Lukebekz 13h ago
Guys, careful who you mention. The last time this quesiton was posted, Dolly Parton's passing made headlines the next day.
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u/brickiex2 12h ago
Mel Brooks
Dick van Dyck
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u/Round-Guarantee4948 11h ago
William Shatner at 95 considering he just dealt with brain cancer recently.
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u/X_REDNECK 11h ago
Bam Margera and Steve-O - more so the former, but those guys have really pushed themselves to the limit.
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u/OregonOrBust 14h ago
Willie Nelson
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u/LiteratureNo7534 13h ago
Don't you dare bring bad juju! Man's living his best peaceful life he needs to be protected at all costs
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u/stacixgoddess 14h ago
Clint Eastwood. I swear that man has been old my entire life 💀
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u/anasannanas 14h ago
Gunsmoke was shown to the troops before the battle of Waterloo
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u/crackerblind 13h ago
Iggy Pop. There’s a famous photo of him with David Bowie & Lou Reed. Who would have guessed he’d be the last one standing?
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u/mntfr 10h ago
Tom Jones, no disrespect to him but it seems that he is the only one fromt the old era of las vegas that is still alive, he was a close friend and collaborator of the Rat Pack and Elvis
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u/Edgehead62888 14h ago
Abdullah the Butcher
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u/ForwardHedgehog3090 14h ago
Had to google if he is still alive. I could have sworn he had pass. Nope, he’s 85 and alive.
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u/SomeCountryFriedBS 11h ago
Abdullah the Butcher, former extreme and extremely heavyweight pro wrestler who gave out Hep C like Halloween candy. Somehow still alive at 85.
Keith Richards is the only mainstream answer now that Ozzy's gone.
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u/zootopiafan07 14h ago
Karen Marsh Doll. Judy Garland’s double in the Wizard of Oz!
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u/Alkash 13h ago
William Shatner
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u/Anotyap 13h ago
Bill Shatner is quietly 95+, flew on a sub-orbital Blue Origin flight a few years back and became the oldest person to be in space at the time, recently started a heavy metal band that is touring, and has had a 75 year acting career. I can’t believe he is 95 and I think many people do not realize he is that old
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u/LukiBlu 13h ago
William Roache a.k.a Ken Barlow in Coronation Street. He's 94 and still making appearances.
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u/Shadow6365 8h ago
Bill Cosby. Can't believe it's been over ten years since all that stuff about him came out.
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u/PowerSkunk92 13h ago
Bob Dylan is not only still alive but still touring, which is really amazing.
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u/Own-Break-1856 10h ago
Im a big fan and saw him perform in Harlem 15ish years ago. Trust me. Its not amazing, its sad.
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u/Dismal_Preparation22 14h ago
Britney Spears
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u/OoMySqueedilySpooch 14h ago
Agreed. Being manic and unmedicated is one thing, but there seems to be other kinds of substance abuse going on making it hard for her to even hold her head up straight.
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u/Dismal_Preparation22 13h ago
Her IG posts are terrifying in and of themselves but the captions are a truly alarming level of nonsensical word salad. It’s truly scary.
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u/Weekly-Remote6886 14h ago
Franki Valli
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u/Sea_Cardiologist7725 14h ago
Still not convinced he's actually not an animatronic
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u/FuzzyPiece1732 14h ago
David Attenborough, only because every now and then i see a post on Reddit come up saying breaking news David Attenborough passed away.. then i open the post and they April fooled us
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u/Kochik0o 11h ago
Rosemary Harris
She played an old lady Aunt may 20+ years ago and is still around at 99 years old.
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u/BobbieMichelleBain 9h ago
Wanda Jackson. I don't know if it counts, but the other day I was completely amazed to find out that the Queen of Rockabilly was still alive.
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u/kukkolka 14h ago
That singer dude that's in maximum security right now to protect him from other prisoners
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u/Remarkable_Rough_649 14h ago
If you mean Ian Watkins they already got him and killed him last year
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u/Nomadzord 14h ago
After he died I went down a wormhole learning about how terrible he was. I was very happy he was no longer with us on this planet after that. Some people just don’t deserve to hang around.
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u/iamlevel5 13h ago
Jim Carrey. He seems deeply troubled, in a way similar to Robin Williams, every time I see him give an interview.
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u/LongjumpingPrompt568 13h ago
Keith Richards. Man looks like he survived three different centuries and somehow keeps going.
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u/deadboltwolf 14h ago
Dick Van Dyke