NOOOO! Not Grizzly Adams too!
StratDragon
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Grizzly Adams star Dan Haggerty has passed away at the age of I don't know but he was 6'1" according to wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Haggerty
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Everybody from 70s/80s Hollywood is dying lately, it's like it's some cool new fad... Bummer though, I used to like that show... I wonder what ever happened to the bear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_the_Bear
He ran against Al "Grandpa" Lewis for Governor of New York State in 1990, won the popular vote but was declined his post due when Al D'Amato discovered his plot to change the 2nd Amendment to read "the right to arm bears."
Some may argue this is conjecture, or I just made this up. To my detractors I say...
...Squirrel!
Cancer too. Sad. QEPD.
Died in 1999 at 37 (read that somewhere just now).
You know, cancer is a horrible plague on the modern world. But it's worth reflecting on the fact that it's only our scourge because we've beaten other plagues.
Tuberculosis, by the 19th century, is estimated to have killed one in seven of ALL HUMANS WHO HAD EVER LIVED. Think about that. And it doesn't always, or often, kill you fast -- you wither away, kept in some back room, slowly fading. It could take years, decades before you died.
Infections were INCREDIBLY deadly. Even a papercut, if you were unlucky, could turn gangrenous and kill you. Surgeries were always dicey.
Parasites. OH GOD PARASITES.
So, yeah, cancer sucks (and I've lost family to cancer, my wife battled cancer)... but... yeah.
I lived in North Hollywood during the 70s, and shared a striking resemblence to Dan Haggerty, including the beard and wild hair (he was a few years older than me). On more than one occasion people would came up to me in checkout lines to ask for autographs. After a while I just signed 'em rather than explain the coincidence. Then, right before we moved out of the area, my wife and I ran into him and his wife at a Shakey's Pizza. We eyeballed each other for a while, and being the first time he saw me, I think he was a little taken aback. By this time the show was off the air, or I would have asked him for a job as his stand-in!
Anyway, I read the news this morning with great dismay.
Your description of tuberculosis was spot-on; there was a reason the disease was also called "consumption"....
This American Life had a soul scouring documentary on it:
I think they (or Ken Burns separately?) had a really amazing documentary on polio, too, another thing people don't really appreciate nowadays.
Worse than Tuberculosis is Malaria. Malaria has killed ONE IN THREE HUMANS THAT EVER LIVED.
... Mosquitos must die.
..Tubercuosis is what did my favourite composer, Frederic Chopin in.
My (second-) favorie composer -- Tchaikovsky -- died of cholera. Less than two weeks after he conducted the premiere of his Symphony #6, "Pathetique".
It has been said that he had premonitions of his own death while he was writing it, and that those premonitions managed to work their way into the score (sub-consciously, of course). Whatever. It is still a magnificent piece of work, by one of the greatest composers who ever lived.
Or died.
There seems to be a consumptive in many 19th century novels. Dickens, Dostoevsky, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis_in_popular_culture
...indeed, a very lovely work.
...as well as wild west lore.
Poe's wife died of TB. Poe died, by some estimates, of alcoholism and rabies.
Kung Fu Panda and his wife died... I had no idea he was a rabid alcoholic... I did know of his noodle addiction though.
How did the topic turn to TB?
Or Kung Fu pandas?... Oh that was me... Sorry.
The panda's name is spelled "Po". And his addiction was radishes, not noodles. Just keeping the facts straight, because SOMEBODY has to do it.
Probably that whole 'stream of consciousness' thing we've all heard so much about...!
No, poo was a yellow bear addicted to honey.
No Poo jokes, please! Pooh on you!
OMGosh, I worked at a Shakey's Pizza when I was in college my sophmore year! Red and white striped shirt and that funky hat! We had the greatest banjo player at our store too!