Jimmy Buffett Dead at 76

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#4
I rarely cry over someone famous dying, but I’ve been in tears all morning…. This hurts. Just looking around my house there is so much Margaritaville here: Margaritaville Crocs, a frozen Concoction maker, cups pillows, shrimp in the freezer… I never realized how much Jimmy Buffett impacted my life… I bought most of it as a laugh or because my dad was a fan and I missed him (but secretly I was a fan too… :/ ). Fins Up…
 
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It’s a shame he couldn’t have revealed that he had this aggressive skin cancer 4 years ago when he got it. It would’ve possibly turn the light on for some of his followers to use sunscreen.
But, I do understand, wanting to have your privacy. He was a fantastic person. I met him once at a concert that my friend was a roadie for. And he was really sweet to everybody.
 
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Still crying today. This one is going to hurt for a very long time. He was the soundtrack to our family memories for decades. I went to my first concert somewhere around ten years old, and my last in 2019 at 42. The last couple weeks I had been so inexplicably sad when thinking about him. Fans knew something was wrong, just not exactly what and how serious. I was hoping for one last chance to see him. He went out the way he lived the rest of his life - no fuss and no accolades, just family and friends, leaving his fans to celebrate him in their own ways.
 
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maxxout said:
It’s a shame he couldn’t have revealed that he had this aggressive skin cancer 4 years ago when he got it. It would’ve possibly turn the light on for some of his followers to use sunscreen.
But, I do understand, wanting to have your privacy. He was a fantastic person. I met him once at a concert that my friend was a roadie for. And he was really sweet to everybody.
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He kept his private life very private, so I am not at all surprised that he didn't. It would have taken away from everything he did after his diagnosis - fans focusing on him being sick, empty sympathy from peers who would only mention knowing him for their own gain, being given any kind of award knowing it was likely because he was terminally ill. I would be the exact opposite, but having been a fan for so long, it's not really surprising how it's been handled. I feel like there will probably be news that comes out later on just how he treated this, when exactly he knew it was terminal, and things he did on purpose these last couple years knowing he was running out of time.
 
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