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People Keep Dying
I don't know what it is in the last week since the Gordon Cooper thing, but folks keep passing away. Max Faget, the English Hostage (okay, he was killed but he's still dead), Mariano Rivera's relatives in a freak accident... where does it end?
Today it's Ken Caminiti, Christopher Reeve, Keith Miller, and some character in Harry Potter books.

Ken Caminiti, the 1996 NL MVP died of a heart attack. He was 41. Caminiti was, apart from many other good things, also one of those athletes who abused steroids for his quest for better performance. he 'fessed up a few years ago and since then has been made a pariah. His body is undergoing autposy, which means, nobody saw this coming. Nudge,nudge, wink, wink.

Christopher Reeve is besst remembered for his role as Superman in the 1970s-1980s series of the films. Was he a good actor? IMHO he was so-so, but this judgement is clouded by the fact that he payed such an iconic role. I think he was unreasonably made into a secular saint since his tragic accident, which also makes it difficult to assess his acting career. Still, his tragic accident and early death only seem to go hand in hand with the myth of the curse of playing Superman.

Keith Miller was a stud cricket player for Australia in the post-WWII era. He was amazing, he was much-loved, his career came and went way before I was even born, and now he's dead. The best thing about his career seems to be that he was one of the early cricketers to defy the deification process that was surrounding the late Sir Don Bradman.

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