Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, mostly of people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks (or maybe give 'em a final fuck you).

There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.

   
• Richard Cash
saved 50,000,000 lives     (archived link)

• Leon Cooper
superconductivity     (archived link)

• Ron Ely
1960s Tarzan

• Elizabeth Francis
old person

• Grizzly 399
bear

• Gary Indiana
author, Depraved Indifference

• Jack Jones
“Love, exciting and new…”     (archived link)

• Phil Lesh
rock’n’roller, the Grateful Dead

• Linda Obst
film producer, Contact     (archived link)

• Dick Pope
cinematographer, Life is Sweet     (archived link)

• Alan Sacks
co-creator of Welcome Back Kotter     (archived link)

• Johnnie Turner
tried to mow his swimming pool     (archived link)

• Jose Velazquez Trejo
in county jail     (archived link)

• Kendell Williams
forgotten person     (archived link)

   
Previously dead