Why don't more famous people die in accidents?

George Costanza, major league ball teams, airplanes ….

The ones who fly around in helicopters or jets probably have very competent pilots flying them around and some celebs are probably smart enough to refuse in bad conditions.

Something to ponder, OP.

[quote] The ones who fly around in helicopters or jets probably have very competent pilots flying them around

Pffft. Competent?

You may be right, OP I can’t decide.

At least you are aware my death was not an accident.

They have people to do that for them, OP. That's what the poors are for.

It's a mystery....

Thankfully my breasts suffocated me before my head came off.

Get fucked OP.

Sometimes they had fag hags like Liz Taylor to save their lives after potentially fatal car crashes.

Sonny Bono

JFK Jr.

Ricky Nelson

James Dean

Aaliyah

Lisa Left Eye Lopez

Natasha Richardson

Otis Redding

Linda Darnell

Buddy Holly

John Denver

OP what percentage of the entire population would be considered famous or a celebrity. I think it would be a pretty small percentage overall.

Stupidest thread ever.

Do hiking accidents count?

I fell to pieces...

That hot guy Robert Cormier from Heartland died in a fall

R16 - I beat you to it.

Natasha Richardson

Mary Mara drowned

I guess I have been forgotten.

Was Sony Bono decapitated? I can't find details of the accident anywhere.

What about us old timers?

Maybe, there should be a sister thread titled "Why aren't more politicians assassinated?"

Wasn't Carole Lombard decapitated in the crash?

R25 I think she was only scalped.

I'm a wood that didn't float.

Ugh, I haven't been mentioned yet.

R28 - see R8

[quote]Wasn't Carole Lombard decapitated in the crash?

Her entire body became hamburger.

Mansfield's wig is what was photographed on the car hood.

And R16 & R18, see R12, you lazy sons of bitches.

^R19, my badd.

Sharon Tate.

[quote] Was Sony Bono decapitated?

No. Why would you think that?

R30 Carole was burned to a crisp with a crushed head, but in one piece. Not decapitated.

Here's her death certificate.

There was a similar thread as this years ago, and I remember pondering then that for all the flying/travelling they do, we don't have any dead models (I shudder to call today's models "supermodels"). Next time I fly, and I am finally forced to fly a Death Max Boeing, hopefully a model will be somewhere on board.

I actually wonder if JFK Jr.'s plane crash scared off some famous people from pursuing pilot training and private licenses.

I am a famous person and I died in an accident.

It's been 46 years since the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash.

I have my pilots license R36. I also invented flight.

R32 That was a murder. With a lot of the nutso fans or stalkers in the world, I'm still kind of surprised there hasn't been John Lennon, Selena, or Rebecca Schaeffer type murders. I know Selena and Schaeffer weren't really that famous when they died. But, they died at the hands of nutsos.

^^I meant to type there hasn't been any more John Lennon, Selena, or Rebecca Schaeffer type murders"

David Angell, co-creator and producer of Wings and Frasier and a writer for Cheers died on American Airlines Flight 11 on 9/11.

[quote]I have my pilots license [R36]. I also invented flight.

[quote]—George Santos

Did you take flight lessons from John Travolta?

Actually, I think we hear about MORE celebrities who die (OR NEARLY DIE) in private accidents, because

1) they take far more private airplane and helicopter rides than ordinary people do (see Kobe Bryant, Paul Wellstone, Mel McCarnahan, etc.) ;

2) they often have dangerous expensive hobbies like collecting and driving snow plows (Jeremy Renner) or flying light aircraft (Harrison Ford) that poorer people cannot afford,

Brandy, Matthew Broderick, and Caitlyn Jenner each [italic]caused[/italic] fatal car accidents.

Plenty of celebrities die in accidents, as others have pointed out. But having an entourage probably helps in some situations. It might've meant the difference between life and death for Naya Rivera.

R21 Anton Yelchin still makes me so sad. Such potential lost. He really stood out from his peers the bland Michael Cera and the pretentious and aloof Jesse Eisenberg. One of the few celebrity deaths that felt similar to family loss.

I don't know if this counts but actor Vic Morrow, Jennifer Jason Leigh's father, was decapitated by a helicopter's rotor blades while filming the Twilight Zone movie in 1982. Two children were also killed.

It’s a mystery. It’s a mystery. My asshole is a mystery to me. Yes, it’s a mystery to me!

R48 Yeh I'd say that counted as a freak accident

Actor Leslie Howard's plane was shot down by Nazis, there is still speculation about whether it was an accident or intentional.

Why won't anyone give me attention?

r44 is correct, celebs are more likely to die in accidents due to their lifestyles - more travel for professional reasons, more reckless behavior in the case of many younger famous people.

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Bill Graham both died in helicopter crashes. The number of famous people who died in auto accidents is too numerous to list here. James Dean, Paul Walker, etc. The number of freak accidents is high as well: Bill Holden who died after falling face first into a glass table (while drunk, allegedly); Jack Cassidy burned to death in an apartment fire; Leslie Harvey of 70s rock band Stone the Crows electrocuted on stage from a live mic.

Surf's Up!

I died in a scarf accident.

Jesus, death from a live mic? I didn't know that was even possible.

There was a newsreader here in Sydney whose brother was killed a few years ago when a grease trap overflowed onto the floor and electrocuted him.

Electricity is fucking scary, man.

Brandy, Matthew Broderick, and Caitlyn Jenner each [italic]caused[/italic] fatal car accidents.

Hey, it happens.

I died in a fender bender!

R58 Although I think the coroner's office said he died of a heart attack prior to even crashing

Yes R57 shit happens.

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I fell to pieces

Crikey! I was killed by a stingray!

R63 R18 had the same idea

My last ride was not on the Chatanooga Choo Choo.

BOOM!...

[quote]Why don't more famous people die in accidents?

So are we trying to increase this number?

OK, we may not be that famous now but we were pretty famous in our day.

Old timey plane crashes were common.

Jeremy Renner is not dead

Neither is Julian Sands R71!

I belong to a FB group where one man has made numerous trips to the wreckage site and found her wedding ring, bits of her ruby clip(s), among many artifacts from the crash. What he intends to do with them is a guess. I think they should be donated to a museum.

Ramon Novarro

R72 Um, sure.

R53, Linda Darnell also died in a fire

Novarro was murdered by hustlers, he didn't die in an accident

George Rose was also killed by hustlers

We knew back at R12, R76.

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Thank you, R71, for resurrecting Jeremy Renner.

OP doesn't understand how statistics work.

The media tends to report the best and the worst. But the worst such as people dying in horrible freak accidents are a very small percentage. And the best such as celebrities are also a very small percentage.

In reality celebrities probably have about the same chance of dying in a freak accident as the rest of us do. Which is a very small chance again.

It's simply because the media reports these rare incidents and people that you're left with the impression that they happen far more frequently than they do.

[quote]I belong to a FB group where one man has made numerous trips to the wreckage site and found her wedding ring, bits of her ruby clip(s),

Whose?

R62, we heard you way back at r5.