THE MAXEY CHRONICLES' 2020 PERSON OF THE YEAR- DEATH

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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