R.I.P Dave Mirra

[Darren Dirt]

I've never been heavily into the X-Games but this dude was such a legendary force in his field that even I recognize his name.

Tragic, a huge success and somehow he got onto the path of taking his own life -- and a father of 2 young kids... also frighteningly ironic to see what his final tweet was:

So sad to hear the passing of legend Scott Weiland. Rip Scott https://t.co/8xic8EJQVu
Dave Mirra (@davemirra)
December 4, 2015

[Darren Dirt]

Geez this guy's records were inhuman.

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/14717868/x-games-icon-dave-mirra-dead-41-apparent-suicide-greenville-north-carolina

[Mr. Analog]

Man, this is the year it seems.

One of the founders of Earth, Wind and Fire passed away today too

[Darren Dirt]

Man, this is the year it seems.

One of the founders of Earth, Wind and Fire passed away today too

...and also on January 31st Sir Terry "king of presenters" Wogan for all you anglophiles out there...

[Mr. Analog]

Man, this is the year it seems.

One of the founders of Earth, Wind and Fire passed away today too

...and also on January 31st Sir Terry "king of presenters" Wogan for all you anglophiles out there...

I also found out that the guy who took over from Mel Blanc on Daffy Duck's voice passed away

I guess it's natural that as you age celebrities like these become less alive but still, it seems like it's all jamming up together

[Darren Dirt]

Confirmation Bias at work!

But, yeah. Mortality becomes a louder blip on the radar as you get older...

[Tom]

I don't know if it qualifies as confirmation bias. It's just a lot of people who were "old" when we were kids that are now old'er. They are all going to cluster.

Now if you mean in a way that people are dying all the time, and this is nothing special, then I suppose?

[Darren Dirt]

CB means essentially that the frequency of events seems high when we start paying more attention to those events for whatever reason (usually personal e.g. when expecting our first kid we suddenly noticed a ton of pregnant couples walking around wherever we went etc.) and often we overlook/ignore the data that is contrary to our filter/bias/belief/worldview.

Happens a lot in poker when folks complain about their pocket AA "always" getting cracked, or their flopped draws "never" hitting etc.


re. deaths that forum thread "not dead yet" or w/e it is called there are plenty of 80+ survivors from the original post.