Death and Hollywood

[danaeris]

According to a friend's livejournal, strange_emmy passed away. It's not a shock or huge surprise -- I was vaguely aware that she had been battling with some kind of illness -- but I had foolishly assumed that the battle had been won and was well over.

I didn't know her well. But I would claim to have liked her when I interacted with her, and to have occasionally wondered why she dropped from the scene. Perhaps it was because of her ongoing battle for her life.

On top of that, a dear friend's grandfather also passed away today.

Having experienced the death of my own grandfather, I think I'm beginning to better understand death on an emotional level (unfortunately). I feel much more affected by these bits of news than I have been by similar reports of deaths in the past.

I just hope that those in question passed away with as little pain as possible, secure in the presence of loved one(s).



After that, what can I say? I went to Hollywood. It was smaller than life. Disappointing, yet there, and real, and part of a real city. It's like the glamour which is hinted at to the rest of the world takes on an every day, banal patina when you see it in the real world. Celebrities stood here. So what.

Still, I got lots of exercise and got a better idea of what Hollywood, and LA, are truly like. I think I may have gotten some almost-blisters too, and by the time I got "home" I thought my feet were going to fall off.

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[auros]

Emmy had breast cancer, IIRC. It also killed an aunt of hers, I think. And she'd had some treatment/surgery to deal with it, which last time I saw her, she was optimistic about. But, I guess it came back. I was never really close to her, but I did like her. Sigh.