This is becoming a joke.

Not to be in poor taste but it is amazing Keith Richards is still alive, he looks like a leather suitcase full of drugs.

Yeah ShinnickNeth, and honestly, 2016 hasn't had an unusual number of famous deaths as any other year. Difference is, this year there were so many high profile ones that it just seems to be "the all time record"

But sadly you are right, just like last year, and for the next 10 years or so , we are going to continue to have a ton of high profile deaths because of the baby boomer thing.

Carrie Fisher's was huge though. I have to say it might have been bigger than, or at least on par with Prince and Bowie as far as not only cultural impact but also their contributions to music and film / film writing / author respectively.

My brother was only 42, so I don't know if that qualifies as a "Baby Boomer".

Aren't "Baby Boomers" to do with the boom in babies being born after WWII, because soldiers were coming home to their brides. Which would put most "Baby Boomers" as around 70 (1945). My father was born in '45.

Carrie Fisher was 60, George Michael was 53.

I think the more interesting thing is how many of them have died because of health problems, namely cancer or heart attacks. That even includes most of the people I know personally, who most of them (including my brother) died from cancer.

People like Carrie Fisher, David Bowie, and Alan Rickman have had a much greater impact on my life than some random Joe Schmo who died last week (my condolences to Joe and his family). I'm sure Joe Schmo made a difference to a lot of people, but I've never known him. I know Princess Leia. I know Ziggy Stardust. I know Severus Snape. The world is a sadder place without them.

Just like we won't care when you die.

That's alright for you to say, AngryNegroMan, but I know a few people who died this year.

My brother was also my best friend, and we did everything together. I miss him every day. My other brother and his wife loved their dog, who had to be put down. They also attended six funerals this year, mostly from her side of the family.

My married brother (not the one who died) was saying that, at the Christmas party, he attended, every person had lost someone close to them this year.

His childhood best friend, who was his best man, lost his father and his grandmother in two successive weeks. I know the father, as their family were also once our neighbors.

My neighbor was telling me the other day his mother died the Monday before Christmas.

Thankfully for you, it sounds like your loved ones are safe and well, and I hope that continues. But deaths have happened close to home as well, not just to celebrities I have never met.

I'm just tired of hearing about someone dying every other week, especially when I am dealing with my own grief.

Hope 2017 is a bit quieter and less dramatic.

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You dared to say that to a vulnarable person, then allow me :

Go back to the 1700s. You were better with chains.

Martin Scorsese is 74

Glad you agree. 