Well known personalities who have passed away recently (Renamed)

[pmccarthy]

I watched the movie The Conclave on a plane two weeks ago. Highly recommended, an imaginative story about what happens behind the scene when the pope dies.

[facthunter]

AS Popes go this one was Nice. He died of a stroke AND Heart attack. and kept working till the end. Vance had a disagreement with him. (naturally)  Trumps LOT sees Empathy as "Suicidal".  Nev

[old man emu]

I think that atheists would find it ironic that a person who spent his life in an effort to gain admittance to the Kingdom of God, would be mourned for getting his entry ticket. 

[facthunter]

He's mourned because he is not around to further bless us with his good works and will be missed.  PS I'm an atheist.  He exerted a good influence, empathy and caring for the earth and the needy and scorned "Show and wealth". His coffin is a simple wood box  and he won't be buried in the Vatican  but a nearby Italian churchyard.. He questioned Trumps  "claimed" Christianity based on what HE did. Reasonable?  Nev

[old man emu]

It's not wrong to mourn the loss of a member of our community, especially one who showed leadership in so many ways. I was trying to point out that death for him might be a joyous thing, but for us it is a loss.  

[facthunter]

If He believes in the New Testament and HAS behaved a lot better than many others maybe but ALL have fallen short of the Glory of god so by Christ's sacrifice he could reasonably expect to go to Heaven and the Requiem Mass should help avoiding Purgatory even for a short time. I think he lived by what HE believed in.  Nev

[red750]

Cricketer Keith Stackpole has died aged 84, from a suspected heart attack.

[red750]

Gerard Kennedy. actor best known for his roles in early television series, in particular the espionage series including Hunter and the police procedural Division 4. Kennedy also appeared in film roles during a career that spanned 50 years in the industry, has passed away at the age of 93.

 

[red750]

Virginia Giuffre, who was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein as a teen, has died by suicide after troubling Instagram posts. 

 

Her family confirmed her death in a statement to NBC News, saying: 'It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia.

 

'She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.

 

Giuffre claimed she was sexually abused by Prince Andrew at the behest of Epstein's associate, jailed British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, when she was just 17.

 

The Duke of York has denied the allegation, as has Maxwell - who is a convicted sex offender - while Epstein died in a New York prison in 2019.

[Jerry_Atrick]

One can only imagine the hell sufferers of this abuse go through.. As I recall, the Queen ended up paying her £12m to stop a civil case from going to court to protect her son. Although this was hailed as a victory to Giuffre, it probably shows any of these compensatory vcitories, which includes a tacit admssion from the Queen that her alleged favourtie sone was more likely than not to have lost the case, are very hollow to the victims. May she rest in peace.