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RIP Harold Ramis — 9 Comments

  1. Ramis died “of complications from autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis”. One sees this bizarre attribution with increasing frequency: People are said to be dying more and more of “complications” of normally fatal diseases. What “complications” exactly are never stated.

    Reminds me of when I was very young in medicine. I filled out death certificates with cause of death being “Cardiorespiratory Arrest”, then line 2, due to….Pneumonia or Myocardial infarction or Whatever. I stopped doing that when I realized that everyone dies when heart and repiration cease, and signing everyone dead out that way was not helping public health data. Today more and more people are dying of “Complications”….Same thing.

    Perhaps one day you and I and everyone else will die under Obamacare of “Complications”.

  2. I loved Animal House and Ghostbusters. They were both classic comedies, and eminently quotable.

    And SCTV was funnier than SNL ever was.

  3. I was shocked to hear that he had passed and even more shocked at how sad it made me.

    I loved all of his movies, but ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day’ were my favorites.

    May he rest in peace.

  4. I hope someday to die due to complications occurring during erotic activities with a woman. This would be nasty for her, of course, except that I hope she dies from complications occurring during erotic activities with a man… that would be me….

    If you’re gonna go, it would be good to go out not just with a bang, with a complicated bang.

    People tend to remember stuff like that. 😀

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