Lemmy passes away

[Basvarken]

Haha that's because the funeral is over!
It was a live stream.
A very entertaining one by the way. Lots of funny anecdotes by rock royalty that attended the service.

[nofi]

you can watch a recording of it here. it starts 17 seconds in.

http://www.openculture.com/2016/01/memorial-service-and-celebration-of-ian-fraser-lemmy-kilmister-now-streaming-live.html

[Highlander]

... It was a live stream.

Last night... didn't "get" the link... heading back for the corner...

[nofi]

see above.

[66Atlas]

I watched it here if that helps anyone. The audio was a little rough from the live feed too, some of the stories are really great though.

[Basvarken]

This one's for you Uwe:

[uwe]

Sounds like Blackmore 100%.  He has had tour managers stark naked in bondage dangling from the rafters at Rainbow concerts. Not always did his "practical jokes" go down well: He once provoked otherwise docile and peace-loving "hippie" Roger Glover so much that Glover chased him around the house with a knife ready to stab him after some Blackmore prank during his sleep. Blackmore was cowering terrified in the corner - the joke had turned bad - and the other Purplites held Roger back - laughingly and with some Schadenfreude about Blackmore who had done similar things to everyone of them before.

[Dave W]

This is sad. Lemmy Kilmister Official Cause of Death Revealed

Seems he was in a lot worse shape than we thought.

I hesitated to post this, the man is gone, let him rest in peace. But he was famous, and people want to know.

[Highlander]

It's a positive rather than a negative, Dave... too many people avoid the simple checks that would show such a thing... same thing took my granddad at age 74...

[Rob]

It's a positive rather than a negative, Dave... too many people avoid the simple checks that would show such a thing... same thing took my granddad at age 74...

Just go and get checked guys!
Frank Zappa same thing.

[Dave W]

For all we know, he may have had multiple checks, of prostate and of his heart. That may not have mattered. He may have known and chosen to keep going as long as he could. As Uwe wrote in post #18 of this thread,

I consider that "late diagnosis, almost immediate death" a white lie, he probably knew a long time ahead and his "health and stamina problems" could not be explained with his diabetes

It just kind of threw me for a loop reading this. First we heard it was an aggressive cancer, then we heard it was head and neck cancer, now it turns out that he had that but the cause of death was yet another kind of cancer plus congestive heart failure and arrythmia. Yet he kept plugging away.

[patman]

Maybe it was better to go out fighting with his boots on, than to die miserable, old and possibly incontinent in a nursing home.

[nofi]

he dropped dead playing a video game at home. as sick as he was he could still care for himself.

[uwe]

What Ken and Rob say: Go to those check-ups (I do). They might not always save your life, but they surely give you the chance to decide about treatment or not while it is still reasonably possible. Other people around you might want to spend time with you a little longer. Edith throws fits when I miss one and is always chasing me.

It's important to discuss this because Lemmy didn't set a great example here. A prostate check-up takes about half an hour of your life - it might even be a pleasant one! Untreated prostate cancer will take it all. Unpleasantly.

[slinkp]

Prostate checkup is way quicker than that if you just get it done along with the rest of annual physical (which you are doing anyway, RIGHT?).