{"id":45435,"date":"2020-07-21T20:51:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T20:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=45435"},"modified":"2020-07-21T22:32:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T22:32:43","slug":"tributer-i-p-recent-devastating-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/tributer-i-p-recent-devastating-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"TRIBUTE\/R.I.P.: RECENT DEVASTATING DEATHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>RECENT DEVASTATING DEATHS<\/h1>\n<p>The massive number of worldwide deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in the past five or so months has been absolutely devastating. On top of all that, there have also been several really tragic deaths of public figures, only one from the virus. (I know this column is a depressing one, but I just felt the need to discuss the recent developments, so please bear with me.)<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, I often pay tribute in this e-zine to famous people who have passed, and occasionally to a good friend I\u2019ve lost. But even though I have never met <em>any<\/em> of these people who died recently, the loss of each one is so jarring that I feel we all need to talk about them a little bit more.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45445\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/naya-rivera-e1595364115728.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45445\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45445\" src=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/naya-rivera-e1595364115728-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"Naya Rivera.\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/naya-rivera-e1595364115728-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/naya-rivera-e1595364115728.jpg 1001w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naya Rivera.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Naya Rivera<\/strong>\u2014People are still reeling from this one, and I have a feeling we all will be for a long while to come. As I\u2019m sure everyone knows by now, this beautiful thirty-three-year-old star of <em>Glee<\/em> took her four-year-old son out for a peaceful day of boating and swimming on a local lake. But it ended in heartbreak, with her drowning. From what has been pieced together, something happened out in the water, and Naya got her son to safety on the boat, but then drowned herself. To add to the tragedy that I just pray does not haunt her son for the rest of his life, her body wasn\u2019t found in the lake for almost a week.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45444\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Kelly-Preston-new-e1595364071520.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45444\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45444\" src=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Kelly-Preston-new-e1595364071520-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"Kelly Preston.\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Kelly-Preston-new-e1595364071520-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Kelly-Preston-new-e1595364071520-110x96.jpg 110w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Kelly-Preston-new-e1595364071520.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Preston.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Kelly Preston<\/strong>\u2014With the shock of Naya Rivera still fresh in our minds, (and before her body was even found,) came this absolutely shocking news that actress, and wife of John Travolta, had passed. No one even knew she had been sick! We the public don\u2019t hear about her very often, but, since she\u2019s half of a <em>very<\/em> famous Hollywood couple, I think we\u2019re always <em>aware<\/em> of her. It turned-out that she had been fighting breast cancer for the past two years. Such a shame.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45446\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/nick-cordero-149470-e1595364168764.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45446\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45446\" src=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/nick-cordero-149470-e1595364168764-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Cordero.\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/nick-cordero-149470-e1595364168764-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/nick-cordero-149470-e1595364168764-1024x842.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/nick-cordero-149470-e1595364168764-168x137.jpg 168w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/nick-cordero-149470-e1595364168764.jpg 1524w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Cordero.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Nick Cordero<\/strong>&#8211;This actor has, very sadly, become somewhat of a symbol of the heartbreak of the coronavirus. Since Nick was mainly a <em>stage<\/em> actor, he wasn\u2019t as famous as TV and films stars, but every Broadway fan knew of him. And his talent. With or without that knowledge, many of us followed his coronavirus journey because his wife kept us apprised of it in the media. I\u2019ve rarely prayed so hard for a stranger, but the entire story was so tragic that I felt compelled to try to help. The couple and their baby had come out here from New York for him to do a show. He got sick in late March, and the doctors thought it to be pneumonia. He entered the hospital where they found-out it was Covid. He got put on a ventilator pretty quickly, and his wife never got to hear his beautiful voice again. He was on it for <em>months<\/em>, not days nor even weeks, and had a pacemaker installed, and even had his leg amputated. That poor guy was tortured. And just when it looked like he was coming around, he took a turn for the worse, and then died shortly after his son\u2019s first birthday. I\u2019m sure there are many virus stories like this one, but his should show the public how awful this pandemic can be. And he was relatively young, too.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45457\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/screen-shot-2020-07-13-at-10-18-50-am-1-1594650038-e1595364616662.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45457\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45457\" src=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/screen-shot-2020-07-13-at-10-18-50-am-1-1594650038-e1595364616662-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Thea.\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/screen-shot-2020-07-13-at-10-18-50-am-1-1594650038-e1595364616662-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/screen-shot-2020-07-13-at-10-18-50-am-1-1594650038-e1595364616662-110x96.jpg 110w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/screen-shot-2020-07-13-at-10-18-50-am-1-1594650038-e1595364616662.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Thea.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Nicole Thea<\/strong>\u2014I know, I never heard of her before she died, either, but this is a very sad one. She was a British YouTube girl, who was only twenty-four. And the saddest part is that&#8230;she was pregnant! Eight months along. She died of a massive heart attack earlier this month, just one month before her baby was due. She had been posting that she was uncomfortable with the pregnancy, and finding it hard to breathe sometimes, and then this. Heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45443\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/iHB1LQbT_400x400-e1595364327697.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45443\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45443\" src=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/iHB1LQbT_400x400-e1595364327697-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Imahara.\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/iHB1LQbT_400x400-e1595364327697-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/iHB1LQbT_400x400-e1595364327697-214x140.jpg 214w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/iHB1LQbT_400x400-e1595364327697.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grant Imahara.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Grant Imahara<\/strong>\u2014I never heard of this guy, either, but many others have because Grant had been the host of two television science series over the years,\u00a0<em>MythBusters <\/em>and<em> White Rabbit<\/em> <em>Projec<\/em>t. He was an electrical engineer and roboticist, and was only forty-nine at the time of his death, which happened because of a brain aneurysm! That\u2019s something I worry about all the time since my mini-stroke four years ago, so I feel especially awful about this one.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45442\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Benjamin-Keough-Obituary-1000x667-1-1200x900-e1595364231800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45442\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45442\" src=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Benjamin-Keough-Obituary-1000x667-1-1200x900-e1595364231800-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin Keough.\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Benjamin-Keough-Obituary-1000x667-1-1200x900-e1595364231800-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Benjamin-Keough-Obituary-1000x667-1-1200x900-e1595364231800-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Benjamin-Keough-Obituary-1000x667-1-1200x900-e1595364231800.jpg 906w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benjamin Keough.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Benjamin Keough<\/strong>\u2014And then there are people who just can\u2019t fight their demons anymore, like this young grandson of Elvis Presley. He committed suicide, by shooting himself with a shotgun, just last week at a joint birthday party for his girlfriend and brother-in-law. That poor family has been through so much over the years, and now this devastation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Lewis<\/strong>\u2014This civil rights legend and longtime Congressman was eighty-years-old when cancer just took him to the next level of life, so his passing is not as awful and unexpected as all of the ones above, but as one of the most revered men in this country, he will truly be missed. There is way too much to say about this icon, who has been working to make people equal for just about his entire adult life, than this space can afford, so I beseech you to research him a bit to see what we all should aspire to be. [That&#8217;s John Lewis in the picture at the top of this page.]<\/p>\n<p>And let\u2019s spare a thought or two for the way-too-many people who have lost their lives because of <em>rotten-to-the-core<\/em> cops, but also for the<em> good and great<\/em> police men and women who have been killed by the lunatics out there, from whom they\u2019re trying to protect us. It\u2019s all such a vicious cycle.<\/p>\n<p>My heart goes out to <em>all<\/em> people who have lost loved ones ever, not just the most recent ones I mentioned above. But those family and friends are foremost in my mind right now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And please, everyone reading this, stay safe and healthy. Life is precious. And oh so hard right now. But wearing face masks (<em>remembering to cover both mouths<\/em> <em>and<\/em> <em>noses, please,<\/em>) and staying away from others are such easy things to do to prevent as many fatalities from the virus as possible. I\u2019m confidant that all my readers and followers are good enough to comply. I\u2019m just hoping that I won\u2019t be writing more tributes to lost souls anytime soon.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RECENT DEVASTATING DEATHS The massive number of worldwide deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in the past five or so months has been absolutely devastating. On top of all that, there have also been several really tragic deaths of public figures, only one from the virus. (I know this column is a depressing one, but I<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/tributer-i-p-recent-devastating-deaths\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-r-i-p"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45435"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45460,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45435\/revisions\/45460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}