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    Ozzy Osbourne has died

    (www.bbc.co.uk)
    610 points fantunes | 14 comments | 22 Jul 25 18:20 UTC | HN request time: 1.447s | source | bottom
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    potato3732842 ◴[22 Jul 25 18:36 UTC] No.44651258[source]▶
    Kinda funny that after everything he did Parkinsons was what got him.
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    1. thinkingtoilet ◴[22 Jul 25 18:41 UTC] No.44651325[source]▶
    It is astonishing, isn't it? I'm reading Sirens of Titan right now and luck is such a big theme in it. You can always increase your odds by healthy living, but nothing is guaranteed. It really comes down to dumb luck.
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    2. x0x0 ◴[22 Jul 25 18:47 UTC] No.44651400[source]▶
    Keith Richards is alive. Hard to think of a more improbable thing.
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    3. doubled112 ◴[22 Jul 25 19:00 UTC] No.44651551[source]▶
    I always assumed it was the drugs keeping him going, but in reality I think he quit them a long time ago.
    4. thr0waway001 ◴[22 Jul 25 19:09 UTC] No.44651664[source]▶
    Please implore your children and children’s children to leave a better world for Keith Richards.
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    5. metadaemon ◴[22 Jul 25 19:14 UTC] No.44651732{3}[source]▶
    Did you mean a better world than Keith?
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    7. EvanAnderson ◴[22 Jul 25 19:23 UTC] No.44651870{4}[source]▶
    Presumably Keith will outlast your children.
    8. elwell ◴[22 Jul 25 19:38 UTC] No.44652044{4}[source]▶
    /whoosh/
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    9. racl101 ◴[22 Jul 25 19:56 UTC] No.44652261{5}[source]▶
    yup
    10. bigmattystyles ◴[22 Jul 25 20:11 UTC] No.44652430[source]▶
    I always liked the bill hicks bit about him finding another ledge.
    11. FireBeyond ◴[22 Jul 25 20:54 UTC] No.44652884{3}[source]▶
    Keith Richards actually died sometime in 1983, but the doctors forgot to tell him.
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    12. bitwize ◴[22 Jul 25 21:04 UTC] No.44652984{4}[source]▶
    Occasionally he spends a year dead for tax purposes.
    13. EvanAnderson ◴[23 Jul 25 03:23 UTC] No.44655449{4}[source]▶
    I once saw him described as an animate assemblage of drugs.
    14. raydev ◴[23 Jul 25 06:37 UTC] No.44656306[source]▶
    > It really comes down to dumb luck

    Let's not forget Ozzy's immense wealth that allowed him the best medical care and health/fitness programs in his later years. He stopped living "hard" by the 2000s, at least by his 1980s standards.

    Had he kept living hard he wouldn't have made it.