Betty White passes at age 99

[sonnymax]

Betty White has left us just a few weeks shy of her 100th birthday. I liked so much about her - her comedic sense, her good-natured personality and her love and advocacy of animal rights, to name a few. Rest easy Ms. White, and thank you.

[JSngry]

NO!!!!

God, Betty White was the boss of everything...somebody else should die, not her.

[JSngry]

 

[Teasing the Korean]

This should be moved to the "artists" sub-forum.  Because she was an artist.

RIP.

[JSngry]

Done.

[Hardbopjazz]

A good long life. She was about two weeks shy of 100. RIP.

[Ken Dryden]

She was always a great competitor on Password, the game show hosted by her husband Allen Ludden.

Edited January 1, 2022 by Ken Dryden
Typo

[JSngry]

Has a cause of death been announced?

[jazzbo]

 

Her longtime agent Jeff Witjas confirmed to ABC Newsthat she died of natural causes.

“She died in her sleep, in her own bed. It’s as simple as that,” Witjas told ABC News.

 

[JSngry]

Wonderful way to go.

[JSngry]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/10/entertainment/betty-white-cause-of-death/index.html

Looks like she died after a stroke...not so wonderful a way to go...

But still....check out the old Life With Elizabeth shows, amazing. And that's just for started. This was a truly gifted person.

[Rooster_Ties]

19 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Looks like she died after a stroke...not so wonderful a way to go...

From that cnn article: Actress Betty White died after suffering a stroke six days prior, according to her death certificate.

I’d take 6 days — over the last 2 years my maternal grandmother ‘lived’ after she had a stroke in her mid 70’s, unable to communicate, and largely paralyzed on one side. She could track motion pretty well with her eyes, and gave some slight impression that perhaps she understood what people were saying to her. But we never, ever knew to what extent — if any — if she was “still in there”, in terms of cognition, personality, etc.

I don’t mean to minimize Betty White’s manner of departure, but on balance, I’d take the same any day (at any age), over what my grandmother may have experienced (and again, we’ll never know).

I may delete this later. I don’t mean to mess up a perfectly good remembrance thread for a legend like Ms. White.

[JSngry]

No problem, totally ok imo. I'd feel the same.