That gives me an instant qualm. The mathematics can get a bit fuzzy. Brian Keith also died recently, by his own hand.
Inevitable death is doleful and lugubrious, but let's face it - untimely death is fascinating.
Celebrity death levels the playing field. People have a pathological need to know that the rich and famous are not immortal. So ravenous is this hunger that some will grasp the thinnest of bones to suck out nonexistent marrow. Friend and benefactor of the animal world expires indignantly in a flurry of feathers. Your assignment this month is to find a seemingly trivial and dismal event, inject it with pathos, irony and conspiracy, and sell it to a gullible producer for oodles of dollars.