Watching Your Heroes Die

Anthony Head was a great animal lover and supported many animal charities. He was also a very kind man. I only realised it from things I’ve read on Facebook.72 is no age and he also only lost his wife a few months ago. I often find that famous people’s charity work only become know after they die (eg George Michael). So they then become heroes to me.

I wouldn’t necessarily consider them heroes (Maggie Smith and Alan Rickman excepted!) but it is our age and our generation.
One of the things my father often said when he heard somebody had died was “He was no age” - how often am I saying that now!
And at the risk of being thoroughly depressing- too often younger men and women than oneself - a reminder of one’s mortality, it makes you think.

Yes, I definitely agree and not only celebrities. Heroes I have known in real life, relatives who were always 'the grown ups'.

Oh yes, so many have gone, the band members/singers, the actors, the TV presenters, and am sometimes caught off guard believing so-and-so had already died. Is hard to keep track, and of course in my minds eye I see them as their younger selves.
I believe Frankie Valli is still alive, have started counting those still with us, it feels more uplifting.