Ayrton Senna. Don't know why I'd be so affected by the death of a racing driver I'd never met, but he was also a highly intelligent, complex guy and I just went into complete shock. No histrionics, I was just hollowed out and in pain for weeks. I've lost friends and family members, but no other death has ever hit me anything like as hard as the death of Ayrton Senna.
The death of Diana was just an interesting one for me because I had found her rather irritating in the preceding months and seeing her on TV - AGAIN - the evening before she died, I said to the screen, 'I suppose the next thing she'll do is die.' Then watching the funeral I said to the TV, 'I suppose next it'll be Mother Theresa.' This was not a bad bet given Mother Theresa's age, but I was still a little freaked out to be right again. After that I stopped telling my TV who might die.
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Ayrton Senna. Don't know why I'd be so affected by the death of a racing driver I'd never met, but he was also a highly intelligent, complex guy and I just went into complete shock. No histrionics, I was just hollowed out and in pain for weeks. I've lost friends and family members, but no other death has ever hit me anything like as hard as the death of Ayrton Senna.
The death of Diana was just an interesting one for me because I had found her rather irritating in the preceding months and seeing her on TV - AGAIN - the evening before she died, I said to the screen, 'I suppose the next thing she'll do is die.' Then watching the funeral I said to the TV, 'I suppose next it'll be Mother Theresa.' This was not a bad bet given Mother Theresa's age, but I was still a little freaked out to be right again. After that I stopped telling my TV who might die.