• AeronMelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      Oh, please tell me he’s still getting voiceover gigs. He needs to leave his mark on as many things as possible before the end.

  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    It certainly sucks, but he was in his late 60’s when it happened. He’s almost 80 now.

    He’s had a great and full life, and he has great care; most people don’t get either of those things. Aging sucks.

        • starlinguk@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3 months

          A lot of older people disagree. There’s a difference between being alive and living.

            • starlinguk@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3 months

              Of course not.

              But, say, when you break your back because you have osteoporosis and suddenly can’t manage the stuff you’ve been doing for the past 75 years anymore, that isn’t really life anymore. Or when you start sundowning because of a UTI. Or everything hurts all the time. And all your friends are dead. You can no longer drive so you’re stuck at home. Your scoliosis finally catches up with you. Your ears go haywire and you get permanent vertigo. You have a stroke and end up half paralysed. You go blind. You end up with post viral fatigue because the world doesn’t take viruses seriously. Etc.

              I have an elderly family, can you tell?

  • Bonesince1997@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    It’s hard to fully enjoy someone’s work or art knowing what tragedy has befallen them since that time. It’s just sad. Among others, I always enjoy Clue.

  • 58008@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    This post is how I found out. That’s heartbreaking. The frailty of the human form is a cosmic crime.

      • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        Sorry, not 14-17 years old and my parents are still alive. I’m obviously not a JRPG protagonist.

          • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
            3 months

            If you win with the kid that killed both his parents in your party you get: BAD END

        • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3 months

          I wake up in disappointment about there not being a sojen anime where Friedrich Nietzsche and contemporary philosophers go on to hunt and kill God. in the most literal sense. not to kill a God, but the biblical one.

          imagine him and Wagner setting up a play to trap Jesus in the middle of the concert. or a side quest with Marx and Engles. or getting weirded out by Freud but then using him to hipnotize captured Jesus to figure out how to kill God.

          • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3 months

            Friedrich Nietzsche Isekai: How I Ate God In A New World And Surpassed The Food Chain sounds delightfully weird

            • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3 months

              imagine the finale with Nietzsche fight mano a mano with God. the white beard tunic all powerful god. the soundtrack alone would be amazing

              • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3 months

                i kind of want to write this, but i don’t know enough nietzche information to do it justice

          • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3 months

            Sounds like the cousin of Yojou Senki/ Saga of Tanya the Evil, have you considered emailing Carlo Zen about it?

  • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    Yeah, Its a damn shame. I always liked his performances. He has done only a few parts since then. I remember him being a judge in a sitcom but I can’t remember the shows name.

    • dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3 months

      Psych, season 2 episode 1, “American Duos”.

      He’s INSANELY funny in it. As one would expect from him.

  • GnerphBaht@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3 months

    I remember hearing that he auditioned for the role of Joker in Tim Burton’s Batman (Jack Nicholson) and again for the Animated series (Mark Hamil). Turned down both times for either too scary or intense.

  • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
    3 months

    And this is why you never get a massage or (even worse) chiro on your neck.

    • Duranie@leminal.spaceEnglish
      3 months

      20 years as a massage therapist - there are areas of the neck to be cautious of and there is never any excuse to do anything with force or speed to anything associated with the neck or spine. “No pain no gain” approaches in manual therapy (and expectations from clients) needs to die. That approach is abusive to both parties.

      There are many ways to provide touch that are both safe and therapeutic. I currently work with hospice patients (you don’t get much more fragile and complicated than that) but when I was teaching the bottom line I gave my students - if the skin is intact and you’re allowed to touch the area with the type of contact to bathe, then there are ways to provide touch for comfort with a positive outcome. Massage can take many forms and it should never hurt or create a threat.

    • TheLowestStone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      Getting the massage saved his life. If he was alone when he had the stroke, he would have died.

      • nexguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        Maybe they meant the massage dislodged a clot and caused stroke or maybe they misread.

        • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
          3 months

          No,you are spot on,see my other above comment - the type of damage he has is exactly matching a certain,rather rare, type of stroke and sadly manual therapy and massage are amongst the most common causes for that.

      • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
        3 months

        Massages or (far worse) manual therapy on the neck can lead to a dissection, spasm,etc. of the vertaebral arteries - they are in the back of the neck, fairly vulnerable and sadly lead to real nasty strokes that often lead to major paralysis or death a lot of the real critical tissues in the brain are supplied by them and clots as well as tissuetend to find their way into the basilar artery which is basically the worst place for them to be. The brain can compensate for a lot,especially when it comes to the cortex, but back there, structures are small, tend not to have “collateral” aka backup but are very important.

        The type of symptoms and paralysis he has makes it very likely for him to have suffered from something in that area and well… Manual therapy and massage in that area are the absolute posterboy reason for someone to have these strokes, especially in a comparably young age. I saw 18 year olds have debilitating strokes that way. I had a 28 year old woman go from "talking to me to brain death/organ donor* within 45 minutes. (BTW: Covid is another huge risk factor,but that affects more the venous side of that area. The vaccination does massively reduce these cases,especially in woman on hormonal birth control).

        There is a reason why in a lot of European countries a massage of the neck is forbidden/considered malpractice by massage therapists (beside it not helping much anyway - muscular cervical pain almost always is caused lower, in the shoulder muscles) and manual therapy of the neck above C4 needs special training for physios (and even then is discouraged).

        Don’t get me wrong, I am not blaming the massage therapist - One would need to see the MRI for that- but it is a reasonably good reminder of a common cause for these cases.

        • Jumbie@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3 months

          You sound like you know some shit. What is the best way to get a happy ending?

          • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
            3 months

            Go to a brothel and stop harassing poor massage therapists.

            • Jumbie@lemmy.zipEnglish
              3 months

              How dare you. Massage therapists aren’t poor, you boor!

      • SacralPlexus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        I can speak to the chiropractor portion in particular. A risk of chiropractic manipulation of the neck is injury to the vertebral arteries - a pair of arteries running alongside the spine in the neck and which supply much of the blood to your brain stem and the back part of your brain (particularly areas that are responsible for coordination of movement and vision).

        Injury to either artery can result in a stroke in these parts of the brain. It’s not just theoretical, I personally have seen patients who had these sort of strokes following chiropractic manipulation.

        I’m guessing OP was inferring that too vigorous of a neck massage could cause the same problem though I haven’t actually seen that.