In 1934, there was a film titled DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY, a fluffy look at the extension of life because Death goes on vacation.
In 2020, Death is back, and working overtime, working three shifts a day, and on weekends. Death should get a bonus from the Gods for the quantity of work he has done this year. Death was not only employee of the month but the EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR; he took Deming/Juran quality improvements to new heights(COVID-19). His quality control was outstanding; no one came back alive.
Death has not been this busy since the 1919 pandemic, or the Black Death. He is killing everyone he glances at.
As this Blog is being written one person is dying every ten minutes in Los Angeles County from COVID; as this Blog was being written, actress Dawn Wells, from the television show, GILLIGAN’S ISLAND died from COVID-19.
Seven Baseball Hall of Famers died in 2020, the most lost in one year- Phil Nierko, Lou Brock, Tom Seaver, Bob Gibson, Al Kaline, Whitey Ford and Joe Morgan.
In 2020, Sean Connery, who was Errol Flynn and Clark Gable combined, died.
In 2020, everyone living on this planet knows someone who has died this year; that is quite an achievement for Death.
In 2020, Death was so successful that in any other profession they would retire him with a pension, accompanied with a golden parachute; but one thing we know about Death, he is an insatiable over achiever and will never retire.
So let’s get to it-
DEAD in 2020, so far.
JOHN LE CARRE
Charley Pride
CHUCK YAEGER
David Stern
Buck Henry
Helen Reddy
Edd Byrnes
Terry Jones,
Kobe Bryant
KIRK DOUGLAS
Robert Conrad
Paula Kelly
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
CATHERINE JOHNSON
MAX VON SYDOW
Stuart Whitman
Kenny Rogers
Bill Withers
HONOR BLACKMAN
Irrfan Khan
Don Shula
LITTLE RICHARD
Ian Holm
Bonnie Pointer
CARL REINER
Hugh Downs
Kay Letourneau
Ennio Morricone
Charlie Daniels
John Lewis
Peter Green
Herman Cain
WILFORD BRIMLEY
K.C. Jones
Sumner Redstone
TRINI LOPEZ
CHADWICK BOSEMAN-
DIANA RIGG
RUTH BADER GINSBURG
Eddie Van Halen
RHONDA FLEMING
John Thompson
Alex Trebek
Ann Reinking
Pierre Cardin
Mac Davis
GALE SAYERS
Gail Sheehy
Ben Cross
PAMELA TIFFIN
Stanley Crouch
Brent Scowcroft
Pete Hamill
John Saxon
Christo
Larry Kramer
Shirley Knight
Bobby Mitchell
ROGER KAHN
“Yes, we’ll gather at the river,
The beautiful, the beautiful river;
Gather with the saints at the river
That flows by the throne of God.”
DEATH, PERSON OF THE YEAR. 2020
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