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ariesgem

(1,635 posts)
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 09:25 PM Aug 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 'Black Panther' actor Chadwick Boseman dies at 43 after 4-year fight with colon c

Source: AP

LOS ANGELES (AP) — ‘Black Panther’ actor Chadwick Boseman dies at 43 after 4-year fight with colon cancer, representative tells AP.




Read more: https://apnews.com/7e2cb43ba86130d92e2128d907b860fd



Hard to believe this really shook me down deep. RIP Black Panther...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 'Black Panther' actor Chadwick Boseman dies at 43 after 4-year fight with colon c (Original Post) ariesgem Aug 2020 OP
. Guy Whitey Corngood Aug 2020 #1
So young ornotna Aug 2020 #2
OMG RhodeIslandOne Aug 2020 #3
Oh nooooo blm Aug 2020 #4
What a tragedy mcar Aug 2020 #5
My deepest sympathy to his family progressive nobody Aug 2020 #6
2020 just sucks on so many levels ladym55 Aug 2020 #7
My thoughts, exactly. 😭 herding cats Aug 2020 #8
Same sakabatou Aug 2020 #12
Agreed. I just want this year to end already. spudspud Aug 2020 #21
. icymist Aug 2020 #9
The year 2020 needs to catch something and die already IronLionZion Aug 2020 #10
Peaceful passage to the Ancestrial Plain, T'Challa sarge43 Aug 2020 #11
I just bawled my eyes out. a la izquierda Aug 2020 #13
RIP TomCADem Aug 2020 #14
Rest In Power, T'Challa. Wakanda Forever. DinahMoeHum Aug 2020 #15
He was very talented. That is way to young to die. IrishEyes Aug 2020 #16
There is so much love for this man blogslut Aug 2020 #17
DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN Withywindle Aug 2020 #18
Good grief! Most people don't even get screened for colon cancer TexasBushwhacker Aug 2020 #19
Rest in Peace Chadwick Boseman. Thanks for sharing your terrifc acting gifts with us. iluvtennis Aug 2020 #20
He was 42. More_Cowbell Aug 2020 #22
Where tf is quality control. greyl Aug 2020 #23
Cancer sucks mike1977 Aug 2020 #25
The twist is, he played Jackie Robinson in the movie "42". OnlinePoker Aug 2020 #31
This is so sad. Behind the Aegis Aug 2020 #24
As I was going to bed I kept hearing that someone died BumRushDaShow Aug 2020 #26
Sad Sherman A1 Aug 2020 #27
RIP, my grandmother survived her bout whistler162 Aug 2020 #28
Celebrity deaths usually don't phase me much. Dave Starsky Aug 2020 #29
Just terrible. He got it in his 30s, which is very rare. oldsoftie Aug 2020 #30

a la izquierda

(11,924 posts)
13. I just bawled my eyes out.
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 10:09 PM
Aug 2020

He’s my age. But that’s not why. He was a role model to my niece and nephew, two little blended kids, growing up in the mad country.

IrishEyes

(3,275 posts)
16. He was very talented. That is way to young to die.
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 10:39 PM
Aug 2020

I'm shocked. He seemed like a nice person and looked to have a good career ahead of him. We have lost a lot of great people in 2020.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,735 posts)
19. Good grief! Most people don't even get screened for colon cancer
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 11:20 PM
Aug 2020

until they're 50. I wonder if it runs in his family.

More_Cowbell

(2,206 posts)
22. He was 42.
Sat Aug 29, 2020, 01:00 AM
Aug 2020

His birthday's in November. It makes me sad that journalists can't figure that out.

What a strong and courageous man.

mike1977

(7 posts)
25. Cancer sucks
Sat Aug 29, 2020, 02:57 AM
Aug 2020

I did not realize he was my age, I thought he was still in his thirties. Cancer and colon cancer sucks, lost a life long friend last November to colon cancer. She had been battling it for years.

OnlinePoker

(5,850 posts)
31. The twist is, he played Jackie Robinson in the movie "42".
Sat Aug 29, 2020, 10:57 AM
Aug 2020

Such a talent. Wish we could have seen more of him before this sad ending.

BumRushDaShow

(144,253 posts)
26. As I was going to bed I kept hearing that someone died
Sat Aug 29, 2020, 03:33 AM
Aug 2020

and kept missing the name.

This is such a horrible loss and to be so young and to have had to battle that .

R.I.P.

 

whistler162

(11,155 posts)
28. RIP, my grandmother survived her bout
Sat Aug 29, 2020, 06:00 AM
Aug 2020

with colon cancer, mid60' until 2001, after having a large part of it removed.

Cancer one of the great equalizers.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
29. Celebrity deaths usually don't phase me much.
Sat Aug 29, 2020, 08:10 AM
Aug 2020

I don't know the people, and it's not like I'm going to miss seeing them at the family barbecue.

But this one is a gut punch. He was an enormously talented guy with a brilliant future ahead of him. I loved the Black Panther movie and was really looking forward to more in the franchise.

He was also metal AF. He was making those movies WHILE fighting colon cancer, and at only 43. That just absolutely sucks.

See you the other side, Mr. Boseman. Sorry that this awful shit seems to happen more often to great people like you and not the awful fuckheads who truly deserve it.

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