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The latest news has included a series of unexpected and internet-virally contagious celebrity deaths, including the tragedy of Carrie Fisher shortly tragically followed by her mother Debbie Reynolds. Alongside these two deaths accompanied a plethora of celebrity obituaries in 2016, including, but not limited to, Prince, George Michael, Fidel Castro, Leonard Cohen (writer of the famous song "Hallelujah"), Arnold Palmer, Gene Wilder, 27-year-old Anton Yelchin (Chekov in the newest Star Trek films), Muhammad Ali, Alan Rickman (Snape from the Harry Potter movies), David Bowie, and many, many more people; and these are just the celebrities. This vast of media-highlighted passings in 2016 has left the social-media universe personifying 2016 as a raging murderer, irately demanding that it "just stop!"
Besides these famous names included in the above list, there are still family members, close friends, friends of a friend, or local, national, or international tragedies that have left us speechless, heartbroken, and with grief beyond all explanation. As the music group Mumford & Sons wrote in their song Timshel: "And death is at your doorstep / And it will steal your innocence / But it will not steal your substance."
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