Carrie Fisher RIP Princess Leia

**RShea** · 12-27-2016, 12:36 PM

Carrie Fisher has passed away today. She of course did more than the Star Wars movies and was the daughter of famous parents. But looks like she succumbed to her heart attack that hospitalized her as reported last week.

**Benny Profane** · 12-27-2016, 01:03 PM

No Star Wars fan, so, this was the last time I saw her on screen.

Who going to be the third in the holiday celebrity death trifecta? George Michael, Carre Fischer, .............hmmmmmmm............. Some old rocker, maybe. Lord knows there's plenty of them knockin on heavens door. (Hint)

**Cruiser** · 12-27-2016, 01:04 PM

**4matic** · 12-27-2016, 01:13 PM

Holiday season is always stressful. Glad I avoid it all. She was never very healthy:

Researchers have some sobering news during this festive season: Americans are more likely to die on Christmas Day, the day after Christmas, and on New Year's Day than on any other day of the year.

In a comprehensive study of 53 million U.S. death certificates spanning the years 1973-2001, researchers discovered significant spikes in both cardiac and non-cardiac deaths during the holidays.

**uglymoney** · 12-27-2016, 01:18 PM

She was on Terry Gross recently and she sounded way older than 60. RIP. She tried to keep it real.

November 28
http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/archive

**Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo** · 12-27-2016, 01:41 PM

This is what happens when you go with a hippie to a second location.

**eskido** · 12-27-2016, 01:44 PM

Good lord she was amazing in that slave bikini in whichever star wars that was, major bummer!

**FluffyLilKitten** · 12-27-2016, 01:45 PM

All these celebs this week had their hearts give out on them. Moral of the story: don't do drugs.

**highangle** · 12-27-2016, 01:55 PM

Wasn't that your attitude about drugs before you read the story? So really, you're just stating your premises rather than any sort of conclusions, amirite?

**SkiBall** · 12-27-2016, 01:58 PM

Now you tell me.

**Vt-Freeheel** · 12-27-2016, 02:10 PM

Sad news indeed. I was looking forward to seeing her in Vlll, this will change that. RIP Carrie, life was not easy.

**splat** · 12-27-2016, 02:18 PM

**mtnjam** · 12-27-2016, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by Cruiser

She's one of my favorites in that movie. First trying to blow up Jake and Elwood in the "hotel" and then trying to gun them down in the sewer.

**FluffyLilKitten** · 12-27-2016, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by highangle

Wasn't that your attitude about drugs before you read the story? So really, you're just stating your premises rather than any sort of conclusions, amirite?

No, you're not "rite". I am saying don't do drugs. Your heart will eventually give out on you..... Oh yeah, and cause mental illness as in the case of these celebs (over %90 of mental illness is caused by environment like drugs NOT genes).

**4matic** · 12-27-2016, 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by FluffyLilKitten

No, you're not "rite". I am saying don't do drugs. Your heart will eventually give out on you..... Oh yeah, and cause mental illness as in the case of these celebs (over %90 of mental illness is caused by environment like drugs NOT genes).

PARIS — Albert Hofmann, the mystical Swiss chemist who gave the world LSD, the most powerful psychotropic substance known, died Tuesday at his hilltop home near Basel, Switzerland. He was 102.

The cause was a heart attack, said Rick Doblin, founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a California-based group that in 2005 republished Dr. Hofmann’s 1979 book “LSD: My Problem Child.”

Dr. Hofmann first synthesized the compound lysergic acid diethylamide in 1938 but did not discover its psychopharmacological effects until five years later, when he accidentally ingested the substance that became known to the 1960s counterculture as acid.

He then took LSD hundreds of times, but regarded it as a powerful and potentially dangerous psychotropic drug that demanded respect. More important to him than the pleasures of the psychedelic experience was the drug’s value as a revelatory aid for contemplating and understanding what he saw as humanity’s oneness with nature. That perception, of union, which came to Dr. Hofmann as almost a religious epiphany while still a child, directed much of his personal and professional life.

**Conundrum** · 12-27-2016, 03:10 PM

Because. I don't blame Harrison Ford one iota for getting with a 19 year old. RIP.

**Conundrum** · 12-27-2016, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

Who going to be the third in the holiday celebrity death trifecta? George Michael, Carre Fischer, .............hmmmmmmm............. Some old rocker, maybe. Lord knows there's plenty of them knockin on heavens door. (Hint)

Please let it be the Nuge.

**HansJob** · 12-27-2016, 03:20 PM

Sticky buns on head look was. sooooooooooo hot.

**Benny Profane** · 12-27-2016, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by FluffyLilKitten

All these celebs this week had their hearts give out on them. Moral of the story: don't do drugs.

Yeah, brilliant. That explains Keith above, and, like, a hundred rock stars still walking the earth and, fuck, even performing.

**Benny Profane** · 12-27-2016, 03:26 PM

Originally Posted by Conundrum

Please let it be the Nuge.

That would make me happy, especially by accidental gunshot.

SB · 12-27-2016, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by splat

FTW so far

SB · 12-27-2016, 04:05 PM

Whose next?

Nuther round of celebrity death withdrawal.

I like how every body needs to blame something so they blame year of 2016 as if the concept of time and a number given to are going around murdering their favorite people.

That they live vicariously by celebrity instead of living for themselves is in itself sad.

She did have a hot body there for a while.