Deaths of the rich and famous

It’s almost enough to wonder if someone running a list of the rich and famous decided they wanted to learn how to burn fat from the list by eliminating several aging stars. While celebrities die every year, this past summer has seemed particularly hard on the rich and famous.

Here’s a list of just some of the big names who are no longer with us, just from this summer:

Walter Cronkite
Sen. Ted Kennedy
Michael Jackson
Dom DeLuise
David Carridine
Ed McMahon
Farrah Fawcett
Billy Mays
Robert S. McNamara
Don Hewitt
Frank McCourt
John Hughes
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Les Paul
Dominick Dunne
DJ AM
Patrick Swayze
Mary Travers
Gale Storm
Karl Malden
Allen Klein
Steve McNair
Sir Edward Downes
George Russell
Merce Cunningham

Of course, with death, one cannot even rhetorically ask, “Where will it end?”

Because, naturally, death never does.