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CS Lewis..look him up
I try to keep Christian apologists away from my children.
So edgy.
Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
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#72'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' and 'Love Actually' are my favorite AR movies.
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those are just the stats. Metastatic cancer is almost always fatal with an average survival of 2 years. That shows why more progress need to be made.
The GP's point is that you should specifically say metastatic cancer if you want to cite that statistic, not generalize it to cancer.
This might be a stupid question, but doesn't "spread" imply metastasis? It just has better rhyming options.
If it's metastatic, you've had it... doesn't quite trip off the tongue.
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While the three of them were antagonists, I would not qualify them as bad guys or villains. The only really bad guy I can remember he was playing was the judge in Sweeny Todd.
Gruber killed people because it made his robbery more convenient. He shoots the corporate dipshit guy in the head just to emphasize that he is serious. How much more villainous can you get?
Don't judge.
Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
#75Another great dies at 69 of cancer, days apart. Imagine all of the unknowns who die too early. I really hope we figure this out.
Not enough statistical data
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Well, it's a stretch, but when I saw Die Hard I just barely caught the BSD reference when they log into the CEO's terminal. I found a screen shot on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/armenws/9516176127/ That's a pretty hackerish reference for a film made in 1988 that wasn't particularly about computers or tech. There was probably a BSD fan at the company that created the computer screens. FreeBSD 9.2 had a tribut…
Everyone who dies has probably used a smart phone or the internet so lets start the avalanche!
Your ignorant statement is not even accurate.
Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
#77between david bowie and this, cancer seems to be the midlife killer of choice . Much process has been made in heart disease, but cancer? Not so much. Once it's spread, you're dead. (2 years usually)
How is 69 "midlife?" 40's is midlife. These guys hit their midlife in the 1980's. Bowie's midlife was 'Let's Dance' not 'Blackstar.' Rickman's midlife was 'Die Hard' not 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.'
I suspect we're looking at these guys with their dyed hair, fit bodies, plastic surgeries, etc and thinking they're much younger than they truly are. These are 70 year old. They're old, old men. They died only a few years before the men in my family typically do. They just didn't look very old, nor were any photos release of them looking sick.
I always find it amusing how Charlie Watts gave up on all this with the Stones and just doesn't dye his hair and doesn't dress like a 1970s hipster woman or have a woman's haircut. He has this very dignified look, but certainly looks older than the other Stones. He's easy to spot. If he died tomorrow, no one would act surprised because he, well, looks old.
http://images.popmatters.com/news_art/r/rollingstones-80s-50...
http://www.gq.com/gallery/charlie-watts-style-photos-rolling...
EDIT: HN won't let me reply (goddamn posting too much error), so I'll reply here:
Avg male lifespan in the US is 78. So yes, while your father is an exception, its not remotely typical. Most men don't even hit 80, let alone reach their 90s.
I work with the occasional 70 year. Yes, they are absolutely old men. They can't remotely keep up with guys in their 50s and early 60s, let alone 30s and 40s. There's a reason retirement age is usually pegged at 65.
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Doesn't a "famous person" die almost every day?
Yes, but there is also a theory that celebs die in three's which is pretty interesting. A lot of researchers say this is because we as humans love patterns: “Patterns in death, patterns in misfortune – those are things that help us try to understand the universe or reality in a way that makes sense of it,” explains John Hoopes, a professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas who has written about the concept…
I recall seeing a suggestion that "everything" happens in threes, in a meaningful sense. Something along the lines of: you take events which happen according to a poisson distribution with parameter L, and you define a cluster to be "any group of events which happen with no more than time L between adjacent ones", and then the expected size of a cluster is a little less than three.
I'm probably misremembering the details, and I can't immediately find a source, but I thought this was interesting.
Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
#79between david bowie and this, cancer seems to be the midlife killer of choice . Much process has been made in heart disease, but cancer? Not so much. Once it's spread, you're dead. (2 years usually)
> Once it's spread, you're dead. (2 years usually) OK, this is completely wrong. There are several cancers which do not kill THAT fast in the first place, and several that can be cured with pretty good confidence. And it's often a matter of how soon you detect it - if you find it at Stage I, you have much better odds than if you find it at Stage IV. Please stop generalizations like this.
> if you find it at Stage I, you have much better odds than if you find it at Stage IV.
Very true, however, Stage I cancer is still localized, Stage IV cancer has spread to other organs.
To your point though, Lance Armstrong beat cancer after it had metastasized. He was an exception. He was in stellar condition. I doubt most folks would be able to endure what he could.
For colon cancer, bleeding is sometimes unnoticed or written off as hemorrhoids, so it is ignored and given time to grow and spread. This, I believe, is the chief reason why it's so lethal (there are exceptions, of course). Colon cancer is curable if found early enough. Sharon Osbourne has been cancer free for 13 years only because she caught it early.