RIP Victoria Wood

Never knew she was unwell tbh

Wow I thought this must be a wind up.

RIP

Double the number of celebrities have died in the first three months of this year compared to 2015, figures show.

According to research by BBC Radio 4 show More or Less, 24 celebrity obituaries have been written already this year compared to just 12 over the same time period in 2015.

The organisation says the spike is probably down to a boom in the number of celebrities born in the 1950s - when there was more ways to be famous than before.

I'm going to eat a maccarone as a gesture of respect.

RIP Victoria

very much shocked - i marvelled that she never aged in the last twenty years. Could pass as a 45 year old. More shocking that someone who looked so healthy has passed.
Not a fan of most women comedians, but she was funny. a genuine talent and a lovely woman.

Very sad news. RIP Victoria.
Was just having a laugh with a colleague about this song yesterday.
Let's do it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkfuE3Rt8IE

Lovely tribute from Catherine Tate recently:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQtK9AKHz0M

Good grief, that is sad news. She was brilliant.

Without doubt the unfunniest comedian of all time bar none

RIP

can we all just stop dying?

dont dare shut your eyes ffs, everyones going

all this keep health boll0cks....

its a load of old tosh....

Victoria wood wasn't exactly a hellraiser was she....yet ronnie wood out lives her.



P.S.  Rest in Peace....

*healthy

Maybe she worked too much?

she was a chip of the block

Watched that clip Clouseau...was a great tribute from C/T

Well "Bend me over backwards on me hostess Trolley" tonight

RIP Victoria Wood CBE

Such sad news, she was very talented and 62 is no age.

I agree with Slippy , sad news indeed

62 is a decent innings when there are now over 200 different types of cancers, 200 years ago not many people were dying from this disease.

200 years ago they were dying young from other things which are now no longer a threat. The big C will be conquered one day, but  not in my lifetime.

RIP Victoria Wood

cigarettes killed someone i knew he got knock down by a benson and hedges lorry

cigarettes killed someone i knew he got knock down by a benson and hedges lorry


To paraphrase Peter Cook, "oh that's f***ing good that, you could be on the radio with that type of stuff".

A real shock this. Very sad news.

RIP

Agree a real shock.
RIP Victoria

certainly a shock but I never rated her myself just not my taste

I know that but points being it feels like with so many unconquered diseases we're all dodging bullets, if our diet was as clean as 200 years ago we would avoid many of the cancers that people are diagnosed with, they had deficiencies with a lack of certain vitamins but there was at least no processed foods like there are today, western diet is to blame for a lot. And stress.

very sad, a talented actor, I thought she was funny, r.i.p

Our diet may not as healthy as 200 years ago, but is probably a good deal tastier

There were a lot of other things we died from then, children did not necessarily survive to adulthood that was considered normal.

Cancer is proving hard to beat

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62 is a decent innings


WTF!

Life expectancy today is nearly double what it was 200 years ago.
62 years is young nowadays. RIP

Think people are missing my point, if we went back to not consuming processed foods, whilst having the advantage of today's advances in medicine, the number of people suffering from Diabetes and cancers would drop significantly, there were not many cases of either before the introduction of sucrose laden foods which seems to be in everything.

62 is young to some but when so many go at that age and younger to such common illnesses like cancer it's not exactly a great surprise.

That Acorn Antiques was brilliant, very sad at this news, Bowie, Lemmy, Corbett and now this, not been a great start to the year for celebs

People dropping like flies from my childhood Talented lady RIP

cancer seems to be the top scorer among celebrities.

David Bowie Jan 10
Alan Rickman Jan 14
Terry Wogan, Jan 31
Father Ted actor Frank Kelly, died on Feb 28
all had cancer

kenny mann  • April 20, 2016 7:38 PM BST 



scandanavian_haven

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62 is a decent innings


WTF!

...come in your time is up kenny

Only last week I watched all the Acorn Antiques on youtube. Very sad, always remember her joke(I take it it was her joke, she certainly told it in standup) about going on holiday and that she knew the plane was old because she had to sit next to the rear to the rear gunner, always liked that one . As has been said 62 is no age.

Life expectancy figures are skewed by the high infant mortality rate:

But the inclusion of infant mortality rates in calculating life expectancy creates the mistaken impression that earlier generations died at a young age; Americans were not dying en masse at the age of 46 in 1907. The fact is that the maximum human lifespan — a concept often confused with "life expectancy" — has remained more or less the same for thousands of years. The idea that our ancestors routinely died young (say, at age 40) has no basis in scientific fact.

http://www.livescience.com/10569-human-lifespans-constant-2-000-years.html

It depends how you look at it, 62 to young people is fairly old(ish) but the thing is for women it's just 3 years away from retirement age, when you're that close to the end of your working life, it's not surprising that, especially in this day and age, things can take their toll by then. Having said that I'm convinced if refined sugar was completely banned from all foods today that everyone will be living to a ripe old age in a few years, diabetes and cancers are partly a result in the consumption of excess refined sugars, all cells need glucose for energy, not an excess amount of sucrose.

Methuselah reached 300 not many reach that nowadays....not any actually.

I think our lives are considerably safer now than in the past, we have cured a lot of diseases that used to kill us, we do not
have famines, well not in Europe..Africa maybe, and at the moment we are not living in a time of War.

Which explains the average increased life expectancy in this report?

One problem we have is that our lives are much more sedentary than they used to be. So we are probably not getting enough exercise to keep us fit.

Human Beings like all animals prefer tasty food, things like sugar and fat make it tasty, and it is more affordable than in the past.

People blame food manufacturers, but it is fact people buy food because it is tasty not because it tastes like crud. They give us the food
we want because that is good business.

But this often means people become addicted to it, we forget our balanced diet. So I assume this has caused an increase in cancer.

But since we have cured such a lot of diseases, the truth may be that if we had cured these diseases in the past people may well have
died of cancer at the same rate they are now??????????????????

Tricky?

Methuselah reached 300 not many reach that nowadays....not any actually.

Kenny Mann can't be far off Ebul.

akabula

But this often means people become addicted to it, we forget our balanced diet. So I assume this has caused an increase in cancer.


Sugar, you mean? It'd be a shock if it weren't down to glucose in some specific way as that is what the cancer cell uses to grow.

Yes Flower.

It is easy to live on take aways, there are cheap sweets, chocky bars etc.

One reason we may not admit. Is if people don't smoke, and we don't like people to drink alcohol

I am afraid they are going to turn to the sweet stuff

maybe there is already a cure, but only for the selected few

name me one statesman that has recently died of cancer...... only seems to be celebs....even president carter's  cancer is in regression

A plot?

If anyone ever discovers how to stop aging that will definitely be kept secret.

Have you seen how many cookery programs there are on now, ok they cook healthy food, but this must be encouraging people to eat more?

I know ,hence Jo Brand lives on.There's no justice.

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Methuselah reached 300 not many reach that nowadays....not any actually.

Kenny Mann can't be far off Ebul.


But not as close as you if my calculations are correct.

How would you react if a doctor told you that you would be dead within a year. Happens every day. But what would you do if someone said you were never going to die.

I haven't seen victoria wood on tv for a long long time, but I do have fond memories of her.  I also like the fact that she wasn't a 'celebrity' ie not always in the papers waffling on.

She was down to earth, funny and spoke to women like male comedians could not. It saddens me that she has died so young.

RIP Victoria

I loved dinner ladies

She was brilliant, extremely funny.  RIP.

She may have written something that I unknowingly smiled at but I can't ever recall doing so at her own performances which I didn't find at all funny.
I knew who she was though and certainly didn't deserve to die that relatively young.

RIP

I'd love to think up a witty tribute but I can't do it, can't do it.

Life expectancy today is almost exactly the same as 200 years ago.

Life exp. may now start to fall, in part due to modern medicine, as people with poor genes survive and reproduce. There is a very large genetic problem with todays population throughout the world, increasing.

Life expectancy today is nearly double what it was 200 years ago.
62 years is young nowadays. RIP
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More knowledge about things now - but cancer is getting a bigger grip every decade  - more folk getting cancer than ever before and rising .

Crap air quality ,poor diet and lack of sunshine  -  medical intervention is keeping folk alive  in northern Europe