Johnnyfan12
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Boy this forum is swell. One guy mocks someone's death, and then people get testy with the guy who calls him out for it. It really sheds such positive light on Jazz fans.
Animated film director Satoshi Kon dead at 46
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Duck Rodgers
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Damn dude, you must be a huge fan to have not noticed that he has been dead for two months.
But seriously, the Japanese Health Care system sucks. They probably radiated the poor guy to death.
But seriously, the Japanese Health Care system sucks. They probably radiated the poor guy to death.
AtheistPreacher
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It's not like we really hear about deaths in Japan over here in the States... and that was if I even kept up with any news, which I don't. But I would know if Spielberg died, because it gets around here just by word of mouth, even if I happen to care a lot more about Satoshi Kon. Which means the only way for me to know he died was to find out myself. But do you feel the need to check up on all the mid-forties celebrities you like every month just in case they've died unexpectedly from cancer? Because that's not something I normally do. I very greatly admire his work, and I watch it plenty -- I even exposed a few friends to Paprika just last month -- but I don't feel the need to keep up with the guy's personal life. Those things considered, I don't think it's much of a surprise that I hadn't heard. I was checking on the next film he was supposed to be doing, announced in late 2008 as his next project, figured it might be coming out soon. But I must admit, it was a major kick in the nads to discover it like I did... it always sucks to find that someone died young and unexpectedly, but even moreso when you're late to the funeral.
As for their health care system, he said that he refused medication. I'm not sure why. He was an odd bird like that. Liked to be unconventional. They told him he had six months to live at best when they diagnosed him... he lasted three. Medication probably would have extended his life a bit, but you don't generally recover from pancreatic cancer that's already metastasized to several bones. Maybe he just didn't want to linger on in pain longer than he had to. My grandfather died from pancreatic cancer, and it wasn't particularly pretty at the end. At one point he took a bit too much medication, and started imagining that we were all dopplegangers trying to kill him. He looked right at me and said he didn't know who I was. He wouldn't accept food from anyone but my mother because he thought all us dopplegangers would poison him. At that point, medication isn't helping you; it's time to check out. Hopefully Kon was okay at the end, or better than my grandfather, anyway.
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