Whose death was a good career move?

Michael Jackson

Diana's death propelled her into sainthood. Prior to it, she was well on her way to being hated.

Gia.

Peter Scolari.

Edie Sedgwick.

Whitney

Her singing ability was gone by the time she died so she just spared herself an additional few decades of drug-fuelled embarrassment.

JFK--his gross infidelities/drug use would have come out eventually. Thanks to Jackie (with the the media's cooperation), he became a saint and still is---60 years later. Dying relatively young and so publicly/violently, virtually sealed the deal--plus he had charm, intelligence, and that likability factor very few politicians have.

JFK Jr.

Had he ever been elected to high office (he never would have done better than US senator, but he might have made it because of the US obsession with celebrity), his gross incompetencies would have been quickly revealed.

As to JFK, I think the media of his time would’ve kept secret his peccadilloes, but his alleged affair with an East German spy was a different kettle of fish.

Tell me about it, R8.

Joan Rivers got out while the getting was good in 2014. A couple more years and she'd have been canceled.

Jesus H Christ

Marilyn, of course.

She'll be forever young.

Judy’s came a little too late, but better than later.

James Dean, he never had to appear in Dynasty or the a-team

OP, you're a trolling cunt who has not read the primary documents (such as they are) related to Lincoln's intentions for Reconstruction. As Lincoln said that if it took a thousand years of war to purge the wrongs done by slavery, it would be God's just Will.

We are left with the result of the disgraceful, inhumane campaign that has been ongoing since the death of Lincoln. Light that with your idiot torch and stuff it as far as it takes for it to go out. Lincoln has nothing to do with how things are now, except, of course, that there remains in some form a United States of America.

Christ, these trolls.

Cleopatra - she was not going to be paraded in chains in Rome.

[quote] Peter Scolari.

[quote]] —Tom Hanks

WHO???!!!

[quote] OP, you're a trolling cunt

Dial it down, Rageful. No one is in the mood for your petty tantrums.

All the Nazis that committed suicide.

John Lennon

Biggie and Tupac

Easy E - it was about time he stopped infecting others with HIV.

R17, check out The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, a new book by Robert S. Levine. But check your meds, first.

R2 Look at this tweet

I am the biggest Nirvana fan of all time.

But Kurt (well, Courtney and Frances actually) lucked out big time by his death. He's now one of the biggest dead celebs in the world. His music is still heard decades after released. He only wrote three albums and sold nearly 100 million albums. Every other kid you see has is wearing a Nirvana shirt.

If he'd stayed alive? He'd be a slightly better respected Eddie Vedder. Here, but not really here.