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R.I.P. Thread: A Celebration Of Lives Well Lived


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Dr V Shanta, celebrated oncologist died on the 19th of this month aged 93. Director of the Adyar Cancer Institute, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India she hails from a prestigious Brahmin family where two Nobel Laureates are her grand uncle and... Fck. It. 

Shanta was born on 11 March 1927, at Mylapore, Chennai, into a distinguished family that included two Nobel Laureates: C.V. Raman (grand uncle) and S. Chandrasekar (uncle).[2][8] 

She has received the Ramon Magsaysay award, and all the top civilian awards of India excluding the top most one, Bharat Ratna for which she is currently under consideration. 

Her contributions to cancer research is tremendous but would be a bore, techmed jargon for us laymen. And women too of course. She chose to remain unmarried to dedicate herself to her passion.

Kind of Mother Teresa without the converting agenda 

RIP

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5 hours ago, SpaceChampion said:

Mira Furlan has passed.

So tragic, far too early. She brought so much dignity to her role as Delenn. 

In the first season credits of B5, only Claudia Christian is among the living among the first five actors named. O'Hare, Doyle, Biggs, and now Furlan are gone. And there's Andreas Katsulas, of course, Stephen Furst, Jeff Conaway in later seasons... a cursed cast.

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15 hours ago, Dragon in the North said:

RIP Cloris Leachman

This is very sad.

I wrote an article about the name Cloris on her birthday back in 2013 that includes some great anecdotes about her:

https://omaha.com/lifestyles/cleveland-evans-actress-keeps-cloris-a-rarity-with-mythical-origins-alive/article_910900c5-5e19-5b35-880c-231de729362d.html

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