If death comes in threes, who is next?

[sky14kemea]

I think it's very likely that Thatcher was the third, and we've just overlooked one. There have been quite a few actors/actresses that have died, and just not received enough publicity.

Of course, if you go by the dates, perhaps the 3rd one will be on the 12th? I'm gonna be looking out for news on that day after this thread. =P

 

[JemothSkarii]

I'd wager it's going to be this [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view/] guy and it's going to happen quite soon...

Somebody noticed I exist. Intriguing.

TIME TO EXPLAIN!

I have cerebral palsy. If you don't what that is, it is a disability that affects the brain, more specifically your fine/gross motor skills. I got off lucky (see....) and only had the fine motor skills in the right side of my body impacted. I was playing TF2 one time, and I got harassed for standing still. I tried to explain, but NO..they had to be mean about it(this usually gets people to shut up about it).

Hence the name. And yes. I suck at TF2. Not the worst, but whatcha gonna do when you play with one hand?

I was born with it, and I'm in high school.

I have CP too, though mine more affects the left side of my body. I can grab things with it and with some difficulty use WASD, but apart from that it isn't much use. I generally play games with a controller unless the game doesn't require too much quick changing movements (like Bioshock Infinite). Some people are assholes online, in fact, the TF2 community has gotten pretty bad. Chin up though, we all find a way through it.

 

[Therumancer]

I never understood this ridiculous "death comes in threes" nonsense. People just die, there's a lot of us. If you check the obituaries, you can claim people die in alphabetical order. It's stupid.

I think people mostly use it for a bit of morbid fun. Enough people die where you could never really get a "pattern" like this in any real sense. Just in this thread we've seen several people who could have qualified as the third in the pattern, or form another three, or whatever else. What's more there isn't much that relates them in a set, etc...

That said one person's belief, is another person's comedy. Numerology can be a big deal for a lot of people, but for every one who believes, there is another one who will argue that you can make a pattern out of anything if you try hard enough.

That said however, it's interesting to note that even people who "don't believe" are reluctant to push their luck about a lot of things. Most buildings are effectively missing their 13th floor, or at least don't have it numbered that way, with the numbers going from 12 to 14. I believe there are even laws in some places that require this as part of zoning.

Equally "fun" is the fact that most people will tell you they don't believe in ghosts or supernatural evil. On the other hand ghosts are legally acknowleged to exist at least in New York, and most places have laws requiring people to report on the *ahem* "history" of a building or piece of property, both reports of deaths, or just of odd occurances or hauntings. Real Estate agents can get in some serious trouble if someone reports something wierd in their new house and they find out a previous tenent also reported odd things....

I'm just saying... most of this stuff is for fun, but it can also be hard to be dismissive of some of it, especially when it gets to a legal level.

 

[redmoretrout]

Dick Chaney? Yeah lets go with him.

 

[burningrose]

I'd wager it's going to be this [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view/] guy and it's going to happen quite soon...

Wait was that me?
I'm still healthy boy!, wait ima go talk to a doctor
Oh and I think it might be Mandela, I mean he is pretty old now

 

[Joseph Harrison]

I thought it was death comes in threes and sevens hence the Queens of the Stone Age song.

My guess, if you count Hugo Chavez then Thatcher was the third but I feel like its probably gonna be a Supreme Court justice some of them are getting on in years

 

[Brad Shepard]

I wonder what will happen if it is Kim Jong Un.

Do you think we'd get a crazier replacement, or a normal one?

There will be no sad people on the face of the earth, we will be happy, his staff will be happy because they will move up, his people will be happy because he is dead, every single person will be happy.

But i cant blame him for being nuttier then a snickers bar, dude was brought up to believe he was a god child, you are brought up to think of yourself like that, of course you are going to be a dickhead.

 

[Brad Shepard]

The actor Richard Griffiths passed away recently. Perhaps he counts as a member in this trio of death?

Well shit, Now i feel bad for hating his character in the movies.

 

[Da Orky Man]

You.

Yes, you. The person reading this comment right now.

I know what you did, and I'm coming for you.

Hey, everything was legal in the country it was done in. It wasn't hurting anyone. And it was a really cute horse!

 

[everythingbeeps]

The actor Richard Griffiths passed away recently. Perhaps he counts as a member in this trio of death?

WHAT! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!


How did i not know about this? Damn that really sucks. Well i guess that would finish up the trio

It's stretching it. He died on March 28th, a week before Roger Ebert. Still might be close enough to count, though.

Yeah, that's definitely stretching it, though we usually end up having to do this in order to make the "trilogy", either by stretching the time frame, or by exaggerating the fame of a third person.

And to the guy who said Hugo Chavez....yeah, a month is WAY too long. If it's not all three within a week or so, it feels like a reach. Probably within the next couple days or so someone moderately famous will die and we'll consider them the third.