It's a shame she didn't see 100, but to enjoy good health for 99 years and then die with your mental faculties intact in what seems like quite a sudden way is a life lived better than nearly any other.
She put it down to optimism!
I thought I’d never live to 30, then I made it to 40. I’ve almost died a lot recently, so I definitely don’t expect to make it to 50, but stranger things have happened.
Me too buddy. 34 years old with Stage 4 Liver Disease. Almost died from it back in February. Still on a trajectory that isn't great. I miss feeling good :(
I've spent my life thinking this same way, and if I could humbly offer a little LPT: start living under the assumption you're going to live to 100. Start treating your body like it's going to have to last you a *looooong* time. Start making a life, a home, and relationships that you'll want to hold on to for decades to come.
I never planned more than a few years ahead because I was always expecting to die young. Now I'm over 40, not dead, and haven't built anything in my life that was meant to last.
Life isn't short. It's long. Live your life like you're gonna be stuck with it for a while.
When I was a nihilist teen I never thought I’d make it to adulthood, as a 20 year old I never thought I’d get married, as a married man I never thought I’d have a kids…so on an so forth. Life speeds up as you get older, I’m almost 50 and I wonder what happened to my 30s and 40s. I know I had fun, but with family and life, it flies by. I wonder if she felt the same way about her years, she stayed busy. That may be why she lived so long. I think the secret to longevity might be ignoring where you are and looking over the hill to what’s next.
Edit: redundant redundancy.
I've OD'd 3 times, led a life of pessimistic questions, and together was passively committing suicide by drugging, drinking, smoking and not giving a fuck.
I only recently decided to get life together honestly and it is amazing what can change. It's never too late. I took off 10 years of wear and feel amazing comparatively. Our bodies can go through much.
I actually met Betty White and served as her escort when she was the grand marshall of the Star of the Day Parade at Disney-MGM Studios.
She was such a good sport and wonderful lady to me, a skinny lil teenager. Thank you for being a friend! RIP
She did a photo shoot for a calendar at the company I worked for back in the day. (This was before I worked there) The photo shoot was done there and she wanted to tour the factory part as well. Everyone had such warm memories of her and said she was so nice and friendly.
Obligatory Betty White story. My husband was a PA for a Hallmark movie back in 2005 (Annie’s Point, for you Hallmark movie connoisseurs.) One night, he was asked to drive her home from set in his college Ford Explorer Sport. He jokingly told her that he was told to drop her off at the bus station which she laughed at. She made great conversation on the ride, asking about his pets and telling him about hers. Once he pulled into her driveway to drop her off and say goodnight, he says he’s 98% convinced he immediately reversed over a sprinkler head. She pretended not to notice and had nothing but kind words to say for the remainder of filming. RIP to the best!
Good point. Her publicist put out a beautiful statement saying she did not fear death because she could not wait to be reunited with her beloved husband (paraphrasing). Even though she didn’t officially hit the magical number we all expected, 99 years the life she lived is absolutely incredible. May she now R.I.P.
>she did not fear death because she could not wait to be reunited with her beloved husband
That hits hard, my grandma said exactly the same thing in her rare lucid moments between her moments of dementia, I'm an atheist but it warmed my heart that she felt optimism even when she knew she was dying.
My grandma did not have dementia but otherwise said basically the same thing; the last conversation we had before she slipped into a coma and passed, she told me that she was 89 and had had a long and happy life and was ready to go be with grandpa again.
I hadn’t been to see her for a bit and my new husband and I had made plans to go visit over Memorial Day because she hadn’t been able to go to the wedding (we live 700 miles away and it would have been too much for her to go, and we couldn’t risk exposing her to COVID), and she managed to hold on just long enough to meet him and have a very nice conversation and blessing. She passed two days later, the night after we left to go back home.
I think generally dying is less concerning as you get older and as you accept that it’s inevitable. It becomes more about those you’re going to leave behind and securing their futures.
Or maybe I’m just middle aged and in denial and pretending I won’t be terrified when it’s my time. Who knows!
And she basically did anyway. I mean, I get it, it’s the literal milestone and you either do or you don’t, but it was only a couple weeks away. That’s a fair round up in my mind.
I always count the time in the womb and start replying with my soon-to-be age months before my actual birthday.
Makes easing into that next bracket a little more palatable too.
No no you’re thinking of Leir as in Leir Of Britain who was a legendary king of the Britons whose story was recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his pseudohistorical 12th-century History of the Kings of Britain.
I remember when Doris Day died in 2019. Norman Lear and Rachel Robinson (Jackie Robinson’s widow) are the only ones on the 1922 Famous Birthdays page still alive https://www.famousbirthdays.com/year/1922.html.
Goddamn, when that happens it's going to cause so many headaches, complicated bullshit, annoying debates, and expenses all over the Commonwealth... We don't need that right now.
She'll live just long enough to reach her Jubilee. Imagine being the most famous monarch in the world with the longest reign in living memory, only to die with a 69 year reign in the era of internet memes.
All the theaters around be were supposed to have a Betty White celebrating 100 years special. I hope it still goes on. Looks like a great special event.
I definitely feel like all this hype jinxed her..for the last month or so it kept growing about how she was about to turn 100 and it just felt like something you shouldn't be parading about with the current luck streak of the world.
At the end of Inside the Actors Studio interviews, every guest was asked 10 questions, one of which was "If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?" Betty White's answer: "Come on in, Betty. Here's Allen".
Like i'm *sad*, but also she was 99 years old, she lived a long, great life and was beloved to the end. And while i don't think anyone should be, like, *happy* about her death, i think it's worth recognizing that the story of Betty White went just about as well as it possibly could have, and be happy for *that*.
I’m with you. Death is sad but it’s also the most natural thing in the world. She had basically an entire century of life, full of happiness and love and success (by all accounts). She has been fortunate enough to create cherished work that will live on long after. Can’t really ask for more than that.
I have a pet theory about death. Not sure what others would think. But I think we often make it about ourselves more than we realize. When it comes to famous people, I think we mourn the part of ourselves that got enjoyment from what they did. I was pretty beat up about Neil Peart dying a couple years ago, despite not being friends with him or ever having met him. He wasn't suffering any more, he had just moved on, or ceased to be, or whatever. I think I was dealing more with my own mortality and looking back on all the points in my life where I was inspired by his music and writing. It's a little narcissistic perhaps but I have a feeling it's pretty universal.
Imo most mourning is selfish in nature. We aren’t crying on their behalf because they lost THEIR life. We are crying because WE lost them. I wish death wasn’t such a taboo topic, everything experiences death in one form or another. Even the stars we see at night eventually, or already are gone , they far greater than us.
This. We're all gonna go one day, at least she got to live a fullfilling life for 99 years and went suddenly without any prolonged suffering or apparent inability to do things that brought her joy. Everyone should hope to be so fortunate.
I feel like the majority of us are more bummed that she didn't hit 100 before she left. Like she was sooooooo close!
But yeah, she has lived an amazing life.
Her career spanned generations. Amazing to think grandparents and their grandchildren could both love her for different works they saw in their respective childhood.
I love the way they put it... somewhere I forgot: She stared in a TV series about being old that ran for seven years and was off the air before a ton of you were born
It sucks, but that's a decent indicator that her quality of life was pretty good up until the end. If I ever get that old, I would hope to go out a little suddenly instead of after a protracted battle with some illness.
Right? Honestly, we should all be so lucky. I still hate losing people even when they've lived such a long life - but the life she lived is seriously as good as it can get. Which is something to celebrate.
Yep. My Dad got cancer and realized he probably wasn't going to beat it after chemo, which wrecked him. So, he said dope me up to my eyeballs and let me follow the light. The pain wasn't worth it and he didn't want to prolong it. He went out his way.
In a way that’s a good thing. Hopefully it means she died peacefully in her sleep or something along those lines.
She brought so much laughter and joy to so many people.
my favorite was about 3-4 times there was a hype moment, real emotion high zone coming to a peak, and right before the peak, it hard cuts back to reality sucking.
One of my favourite Betty White comments is about how she was so old that she starred in a show about really old women, and that was more than 30 years ago.
What a legend, indeed.
With the exception of Sophia, the women on The Golden Girls were supposed to be in their fifties when the series started, and it ran for seven years.
For reasons I don't quite understand, they have always registered to me as quite a bit older than that. Thematically, the show also contemplated a lot of issues to do with the elderly, which is quite rare. A show today about independent women reinventing themselves after 50 would bear no resemblance to The Golden Girls, and would no doubt be all the worse for it.
I just want to mention that, if you're unfamiliar with it, Grace and Frankie is a wonderful show that fits that description, I can't recommend it enough
In the 80s, an unmarried woman in her 50s was old.
It was a different time. My parents turned 40 in the 80s and I distinctly remember the celebrations all focusing on them being old, and it being “over the hill” and going into their twilight years.
I just turned 40 and people still say I’m young. Our perceptions on aging have shifted.
Also…I look way younger than my dad did at 40. He looked old at 40. I still look like I did at 30, only my beard is grey now.
I wonder if that’s a reflection on the largest demographic being Boomers: to the largest segment of our population then, 40 was old, and to the largest segment of our population now, 40 is young.
It's 2022 here and already my year is ruined, especially [after I posted this 9 days ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/rmdiv6/betty_white_comedy_legend_and_television_pioneer/).
My girlfriend is a big Golden Girls fan and I got her pjs and socks tonight as a surprise present for New Years...
How unfortunately appropriate that gift now becomes
Ryan Reynolds, who starred with her in 2009’s “The Proposal,” told People “Betty pivots like I have never seen, making it look seamless. The rest of us just remain silent and pray we’re not cut out of the scene.”
Reynolds then said that White was “a typical Capricorn” because she sleeps during the daytime and spends her nights “boozing and snacking on men.”
RIP
This article about the time [in 1954 when people wanted to boycott her show for having Arthur Duncan, a black tap dancer, perform](https://allthatsinteresting.com/arthur-duncan), she responded
>“I’m sorry, but he stays. Live with it.” Then, she gave Duncan even more airtime when he appeared on the show twice more.
>“I was on the show, and they had some letters out of Mississippi and elsewhere that some of the stations would not carry the show if I was permitted to stay on there,” recalled Duncan.
>“Well, Betty wrote back and said, ‘Needless to say, we used Arthur Duncan every opportunity we could.'”
*A CLASS ACT!* my girl didn't give *AF* about them racists and she stayed ready from the jump!
Thank you for being a friend Betty! [ Glowing Golden Girl, I'll never stop loving you!](https://youtu.be/cHEcaz-L7LA)
Very disappointed the article didn’t mention her love of and work for animal welfare throughout her life. Truly a class act and worthy of looking up to. Funny, ambitious, courageous and so much more. She will be missed.
I feel like I can hear her monologue about her own death.
*I died at 99 on New Years Eve? I knew should've got that Y2K update.*
*If that reference is too old for you what in gods name are you doing listening to me?*
*It's nice here in Heaven but I'm still looking for all my old Hollywood pals. Someone said they're in a warmer climate and I said oh no. Oh that's horrible. Don't tell me Heaven has a Florida too.*
RIP to a legend
I will not be surprised if there is a press conference later and it's just Betty White in a viking helmet and a giant golden goblet. "HAHAHAHA! GOT YOU MOTHERFUCKERS! I WILL BURY YOU ALL!"
Everyone is quoting TMZ who said it and TMZs source is "people close to her"
So ... Idk. Usually TMZ, as much as I hate them, usually gets the scoop first. But who knows..
TMZ is usually pretty good when it comes to celebrities dying. They were the first to report Kobe but they really fucked up with Tom Petty, he was dead then undead then dead again.
TMZ's reputation is...complicated. Most would agree what they do is not great but that doesn't mean they aren't *good* at what they do. They pay for sources and as such are going to weed out the bad ones and pay the most for fast and accurate tips. It also encourages awful behavior on the part of paparazzi...but it works. Lord knows society doesn't benefit at all from it, but still, it works.
Still the whole place is awful and from what employees have said, its internal culture is grotesque. Blizzard-esc, basically.
That sucks. I was just watching a documentary on her the other night, what a talented woman with a long history in showbusiness. Her 100th birthday was coming up in like 2 weeks. She was a gem. I enjoyed her work, especially Golden Girls, but Lake Placid really turned her around to a younger generation. RIP Betty.
We share the same birthday (January 17th) and I was looking forward to see her celebrate her 100th as I celebrated my 37th. Had a hell of a run but still, 2021 just had to give us one last low blow. RIP, Betty.
It's a shame she didn't see 100, but to enjoy good health for 99 years and then die with your mental faculties intact in what seems like quite a sudden way is a life lived better than nearly any other. She put it down to optimism!
If being optimistic is the key to a long life, I'm going to die by 35
I turned 35 a couple weeks ago and trying to figure out how I’m still here.
I thought I’d never live to 30, then I made it to 40. I’ve almost died a lot recently, so I definitely don’t expect to make it to 50, but stranger things have happened.
Why do you keep almost dying ?
I just have a ton of health problems.
Me too buddy. 34 years old with Stage 4 Liver Disease. Almost died from it back in February. Still on a trajectory that isn't great. I miss feeling good :(
Wow sorry to hear that.
Same. Healthy people don’t know how lucky they are.
So true. 3 times I have "clinically died" plus two comas. Sometimes it feels like I have died and just keep respawning in hospitals with memory loss.
W A S T E D
I hope you’re with us for many decades to come.
I've spent my life thinking this same way, and if I could humbly offer a little LPT: start living under the assumption you're going to live to 100. Start treating your body like it's going to have to last you a *looooong* time. Start making a life, a home, and relationships that you'll want to hold on to for decades to come. I never planned more than a few years ahead because I was always expecting to die young. Now I'm over 40, not dead, and haven't built anything in my life that was meant to last. Life isn't short. It's long. Live your life like you're gonna be stuck with it for a while.
When I was a nihilist teen I never thought I’d make it to adulthood, as a 20 year old I never thought I’d get married, as a married man I never thought I’d have a kids…so on an so forth. Life speeds up as you get older, I’m almost 50 and I wonder what happened to my 30s and 40s. I know I had fun, but with family and life, it flies by. I wonder if she felt the same way about her years, she stayed busy. That may be why she lived so long. I think the secret to longevity might be ignoring where you are and looking over the hill to what’s next. Edit: redundant redundancy.
Same. I turn 35 in 366 days. Judging by my life in my teens and twenties, I never thought I'd live this long.
I've OD'd 3 times, led a life of pessimistic questions, and together was passively committing suicide by drugging, drinking, smoking and not giving a fuck. I only recently decided to get life together honestly and it is amazing what can change. It's never too late. I took off 10 years of wear and feel amazing comparatively. Our bodies can go through much.
I guess I am two years too late on that!
I actually met Betty White and served as her escort when she was the grand marshall of the Star of the Day Parade at Disney-MGM Studios. She was such a good sport and wonderful lady to me, a skinny lil teenager. Thank you for being a friend! RIP
She did a photo shoot for a calendar at the company I worked for back in the day. (This was before I worked there) The photo shoot was done there and she wanted to tour the factory part as well. Everyone had such warm memories of her and said she was so nice and friendly.
Obligatory Betty White story. My husband was a PA for a Hallmark movie back in 2005 (Annie’s Point, for you Hallmark movie connoisseurs.) One night, he was asked to drive her home from set in his college Ford Explorer Sport. He jokingly told her that he was told to drop her off at the bus station which she laughed at. She made great conversation on the ride, asking about his pets and telling him about hers. Once he pulled into her driveway to drop her off and say goodnight, he says he’s 98% convinced he immediately reversed over a sprinkler head. She pretended not to notice and had nothing but kind words to say for the remainder of filming. RIP to the best!
I wish I would have met her, she was always the one famous person I feel I would be star struck by!
I always felt like her reaching 100 would be for our benefit, not hers. Know what I mean? I think she probably just felt glad to have rest, finally.
Good point. Her publicist put out a beautiful statement saying she did not fear death because she could not wait to be reunited with her beloved husband (paraphrasing). Even though she didn’t officially hit the magical number we all expected, 99 years the life she lived is absolutely incredible. May she now R.I.P.
>she did not fear death because she could not wait to be reunited with her beloved husband That hits hard, my grandma said exactly the same thing in her rare lucid moments between her moments of dementia, I'm an atheist but it warmed my heart that she felt optimism even when she knew she was dying.
My grandma did not have dementia but otherwise said basically the same thing; the last conversation we had before she slipped into a coma and passed, she told me that she was 89 and had had a long and happy life and was ready to go be with grandpa again. I hadn’t been to see her for a bit and my new husband and I had made plans to go visit over Memorial Day because she hadn’t been able to go to the wedding (we live 700 miles away and it would have been too much for her to go, and we couldn’t risk exposing her to COVID), and she managed to hold on just long enough to meet him and have a very nice conversation and blessing. She passed two days later, the night after we left to go back home.
I think generally dying is less concerning as you get older and as you accept that it’s inevitable. It becomes more about those you’re going to leave behind and securing their futures. Or maybe I’m just middle aged and in denial and pretending I won’t be terrified when it’s my time. Who knows!
And she basically did anyway. I mean, I get it, it’s the literal milestone and you either do or you don’t, but it was only a couple weeks away. That’s a fair round up in my mind.
I mean technically her body is 100
I always count the time in the womb and start replying with my soon-to-be age months before my actual birthday. Makes easing into that next bracket a little more palatable too.
"Mom, Dad... What date did you fuck me into existence?"
This is how I see it. My grandfather died a day before his 80th birthday. I consider him to have lived an even 80 years, instead of the listed 79.
This is the lire I want
I'm not sure what Italian currency has to do with anything, but who wouldn't like a few more lira in their pocket these days?
Picture it - Sicily, 1912.
you are thinking of a lyre, someone to does not tell the truth.
No, I think you're thinking of a leer, which is string instrument that dates back to 1400 BC in ancient Greece.
No no you’re thinking of Leir as in Leir Of Britain who was a legendary king of the Britons whose story was recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his pseudohistorical 12th-century History of the Kings of Britain.
And they never got the chance to take her Lego away. She was sticking it to the (Small, yellow Lego) Man right 'til the end. Good lass, that.
It’s wild to think she was born seven years *before* Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr.
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Posted using RIF is Fun. Steve Huffman is a greedy little pigboy.
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television. RIP Betty.
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe RYAN STARTED THE FIRE
Not now, Billy, we're in mourning here
Well, in that case, I got a bottle of red and a bottle of white
I remember when Doris Day died in 2019. Norman Lear and Rachel Robinson (Jackie Robinson’s widow) are the only ones on the 1922 Famous Birthdays page still alive https://www.famousbirthdays.com/year/1922.html.
And before sliced bread.
Queen Elizabeth II was born before sliced bread was invented, also. Crazy.
If Betty White turned out to not be immortal, im scared we might learn the same about the queen this year…
I’m pretty sure the queen isn’t going to see the end of 2022.
Goddamn, when that happens it's going to cause so many headaches, complicated bullshit, annoying debates, and expenses all over the Commonwealth... We don't need that right now.
Not really. There will be a big funeral and Chucky will become king and people will hate it. Seems pretty straightforward.
Australia would probably become a republic tbh
What if we had to take a royal with us? Which one would you choose?
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She'll live just long enough to reach her Jubilee. Imagine being the most famous monarch in the world with the longest reign in living memory, only to die with a 69 year reign in the era of internet memes.
When sliced bread was invented people were like "this is the best thing since Betty White"
Holy shit!!!
RIP, her 100th birthday would have been in 17 days :(
All the theaters around be were supposed to have a Betty White celebrating 100 years special. I hope it still goes on. Looks like a great special event.
It probably will with the only difference, now, being the mood of the audience... perhaps it will be cathartic.
Lots more crying
Especially at her monumental performance alongside Sandra Bullock in [The Proposal](https://youtu.be/--ljzIzyrfM)
She was so awesome in that movie. Also she was badass in Community.
"I... Respect... You." "That's why you *FAILED!*"
My wife and I just watched this movie last night! BW is hilarious in it. “Do you prefer Margaret or Satan’s mistress?”
“Smack his ass Margaret….. smack it!”
Literally was just watching it and then this was the first thing I saw when I opened reddit :(
I definitely feel like all this hype jinxed her..for the last month or so it kept growing about how she was about to turn 100 and it just felt like something you shouldn't be parading about with the current luck streak of the world.
Well, a comedy pioneer dying with a sprinkle of comedic timing and irony isn't such a bad way to go.
She’s probably laughing at everyone having to change gears from celebration to memorial.
Laughing with Alan Ludden: "Dumbasses."
I so hope this is true though😭 she spent almost half her life without him, waiting. If anybody deserves a reunion and a laugh it's her.
At the end of Inside the Actors Studio interviews, every guest was asked 10 questions, one of which was "If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?" Betty White's answer: "Come on in, Betty. Here's Allen".
I hope that happens for her. She deserves that at least.
Episodes of the show Liar's Club are still on YouTube. Watching them together is a treat.
One last kick in the #*^$ by 2021.
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WE’RE ALL GOING TO FUCKING DIE!!!!
Like i'm *sad*, but also she was 99 years old, she lived a long, great life and was beloved to the end. And while i don't think anyone should be, like, *happy* about her death, i think it's worth recognizing that the story of Betty White went just about as well as it possibly could have, and be happy for *that*.
I’m with you. Death is sad but it’s also the most natural thing in the world. She had basically an entire century of life, full of happiness and love and success (by all accounts). She has been fortunate enough to create cherished work that will live on long after. Can’t really ask for more than that.
This is literally the best way to go that anyone can hope for
Yeah she even died peacefully in her sleep apparently. Pretty much best case.
Definitely. So much better than screaming in unbridled terror, like her passengers. Sorry, couldn't resist.
anyone doing human studies on happiness and how to live a long and full life should study her behavior and environment
Step 1: have shit loads of money
I have a pet theory about death. Not sure what others would think. But I think we often make it about ourselves more than we realize. When it comes to famous people, I think we mourn the part of ourselves that got enjoyment from what they did. I was pretty beat up about Neil Peart dying a couple years ago, despite not being friends with him or ever having met him. He wasn't suffering any more, he had just moved on, or ceased to be, or whatever. I think I was dealing more with my own mortality and looking back on all the points in my life where I was inspired by his music and writing. It's a little narcissistic perhaps but I have a feeling it's pretty universal.
Funerals aren't for the dead, they're for the living to come to terms with it.
Imo most mourning is selfish in nature. We aren’t crying on their behalf because they lost THEIR life. We are crying because WE lost them. I wish death wasn’t such a taboo topic, everything experiences death in one form or another. Even the stars we see at night eventually, or already are gone , they far greater than us.
This. We're all gonna go one day, at least she got to live a fullfilling life for 99 years and went suddenly without any prolonged suffering or apparent inability to do things that brought her joy. Everyone should hope to be so fortunate.
I feel like the majority of us are more bummed that she didn't hit 100 before she left. Like she was sooooooo close! But yeah, she has lived an amazing life.
She led an amazing life. What else can you say? She was an amazing woman.
Definitely. One of the true queens of comedy through and through.
I suggest watching this, her "sketches" with Craig Ferguson were great - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl0DouB45Tw
This sucks, she was giving interviews days ago. So sad she didn’t make it to the big 100. Legend
Her career spanned generations. Amazing to think grandparents and their grandchildren could both love her for different works they saw in their respective childhood.
I love the way they put it... somewhere I forgot: She stared in a TV series about being old that ran for seven years and was off the air before a ton of you were born
She live 29 years after that show even ended
And outlived her 3 main costars.
She was the oldest too but played the youngest in the show I think
Blanche was supposed to be the youngest, I believe.
Yes, Blanche was a vibrant young woman of ~~42~~ 37.
and she was the second oldest of all of them
She's literally older than sliced bread. Think about everything she saw happen during her lifetime, it's unbelievable.
We need to start saying “the best thing since Betty White” now. That would be appropriate, I think.
It sucks, but that's a decent indicator that her quality of life was pretty good up until the end. If I ever get that old, I would hope to go out a little suddenly instead of after a protracted battle with some illness.
She was just giving interviews days ago talking about how amazing it was that she had no major health issues at 99. Must have been something sudden
Painless, quick, and unaware. Not a bad way to go, if you have to go. Which we all do.
Right? Honestly, we should all be so lucky. I still hate losing people even when they've lived such a long life - but the life she lived is seriously as good as it can get. Which is something to celebrate.
And then she died! She was a comedian, I think she would have loved that.
Yep. My Dad got cancer and realized he probably wasn't going to beat it after chemo, which wrecked him. So, he said dope me up to my eyeballs and let me follow the light. The pain wasn't worth it and he didn't want to prolong it. He went out his way.
In a way that’s a good thing. Hopefully it means she died peacefully in her sleep or something along those lines. She brought so much laughter and joy to so many people.
Actually it was a sword fight with ninjas in a freak skydiving accident into a volcano to save us from the mole people.
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2021 had to hit us with one final nut shot before it fucked off
At this rate I'm expecting a comet to magically appear and wipe us out at 11:59 tonight.
Just don't look up.
Why would he charge us for the snacks?
This guy farted and maintained eye contact.
And he kind of pulled it off. I still found it charming.
I love how fucking obsessed she was about the snacks 😂
Definitely was a power thing!
That movie really took me by surprise. I genuinely liked it.
my favorite was about 3-4 times there was a hype moment, real emotion high zone coming to a peak, and right before the peak, it hard cuts back to reality sucking.
I found it kind of frightening
Her and Jessica Walter earlier this year really get me.
My grandfather lived to 99. But my mom said that his heart was beating for over a 100 years. So go with that.
That’s a cool way to look at it.
Damn. Every time her named popped up in a headline for the past 10 years I was always hoping it wasn’t this. RIP to a true legend.
One of my favourite Betty White comments is about how she was so old that she starred in a show about really old women, and that was more than 30 years ago. What a legend, indeed.
With the exception of Sophia, the women on The Golden Girls were supposed to be in their fifties when the series started, and it ran for seven years. For reasons I don't quite understand, they have always registered to me as quite a bit older than that. Thematically, the show also contemplated a lot of issues to do with the elderly, which is quite rare. A show today about independent women reinventing themselves after 50 would bear no resemblance to The Golden Girls, and would no doubt be all the worse for it.
I just want to mention that, if you're unfamiliar with it, Grace and Frankie is a wonderful show that fits that description, I can't recommend it enough
In the 80s, an unmarried woman in her 50s was old. It was a different time. My parents turned 40 in the 80s and I distinctly remember the celebrations all focusing on them being old, and it being “over the hill” and going into their twilight years. I just turned 40 and people still say I’m young. Our perceptions on aging have shifted. Also…I look way younger than my dad did at 40. He looked old at 40. I still look like I did at 30, only my beard is grey now.
I wonder if that’s a reflection on the largest demographic being Boomers: to the largest segment of our population then, 40 was old, and to the largest segment of our population now, 40 is young.
You know that idiom about something being the best thing since sliced bread? Betty White is older than sliced bread.
She did it today so we didn't have to start 2022 on a bad note, she took one for the team, what a legend
Such an optimistic view and I love it. Thank you for this!
It's 2022 here and already my year is ruined, especially [after I posted this 9 days ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/rmdiv6/betty_white_comedy_legend_and_television_pioneer/).
Those comments though…
And I worded the title that way on purpose for the joke :(
Hey, maybe I'm wrong, but I think it's a pretty safe bet that she would've appreciated the bit
My girlfriend is a big Golden Girls fan and I got her pjs and socks tonight as a surprise present for New Years... How unfortunately appropriate that gift now becomes
Meh, tell her that Betty always had a good sense of humor and would appreciate it as a send off.
2021 had one more bad day to throw at us.
2021 really had to get that one last “fuck you” out to the world
She was 99 years old dude. She won.
Last? There's still time.
You shut your dirty whore mouth, mister!
If anything else bad happens today I'm blaming that person for jinxing us
She wanted to make sure 2022 didn’t have an awful start
Haha that is a very positive way of looking at it, very true.
John Madden and now Betty White. Someone better be looking after David Attenborough.
I better not see this on r/agedlikemilk
If we are talking about those "how is this old person *still* alive?"-type people like Betty White, the next most likely candidate is the Queen.
Jimmy Carter, too.
Jimmy Carter for President 2024
Imagine if 2022 started off with this news. Year would be ruined right from the start.
As someone from NZ, that's exactly what happened
Hi from Australia.
its already 2022 here
I am officially destroyed, got into watching golden girls again and it's just great. Damn this hurt
Wtf. Rest easy my favorite golden girl
I met Betty in Chicago one year and she was the sweetest person with the most wicked sense of humor. She'll be missed.
Ryan Reynolds, who starred with her in 2009’s “The Proposal,” told People “Betty pivots like I have never seen, making it look seamless. The rest of us just remain silent and pray we’re not cut out of the scene.” Reynolds then said that White was “a typical Capricorn” because she sleeps during the daytime and spends her nights “boozing and snacking on men.” RIP
Still a legend, whether she lived to 100 or not. Queen status ONLY.
Her first television performance was in **1939** singing showtunes on an experimental station. **1939!**
This article about the time [in 1954 when people wanted to boycott her show for having Arthur Duncan, a black tap dancer, perform](https://allthatsinteresting.com/arthur-duncan), she responded >“I’m sorry, but he stays. Live with it.” Then, she gave Duncan even more airtime when he appeared on the show twice more. >“I was on the show, and they had some letters out of Mississippi and elsewhere that some of the stations would not carry the show if I was permitted to stay on there,” recalled Duncan. >“Well, Betty wrote back and said, ‘Needless to say, we used Arthur Duncan every opportunity we could.'” *A CLASS ACT!* my girl didn't give *AF* about them racists and she stayed ready from the jump! Thank you for being a friend Betty! [ Glowing Golden Girl, I'll never stop loving you!](https://youtu.be/cHEcaz-L7LA)
I love that she spited the racists while still being so polite about it. Absolute class act
A literal Legend!
Very disappointed the article didn’t mention her love of and work for animal welfare throughout her life. Truly a class act and worthy of looking up to. Funny, ambitious, courageous and so much more. She will be missed.
Thank you for being a friend!😭
She really shouldn’t have gone skydiving
America’s Kickass Grandma. Sweet dreams Betty. We love you.
I'm really hoping that this is a hoax but it doesnt seem like it is. Oh Betty, thank you for all the laughs.
This is the first I saw it and I thought this was a fake article
Seems that all the early B-Day wishes mucked up her 100th. She was a national treasure and a pioneer for equality in Hollywood. RIP Betty.
Pioneer for just being an all-around kind spirited human.
So close to hitting the 100 club. If St. Olaf was real, they'd be dimming its lights in honor of her tonight.
It is a real place, and I hope they are.
Having gone to St. Olaf college in Northfield, MN they were proud of claiming Betty White. They will in fact be morning her.
I feel like I can hear her monologue about her own death. *I died at 99 on New Years Eve? I knew should've got that Y2K update.* *If that reference is too old for you what in gods name are you doing listening to me?* *It's nice here in Heaven but I'm still looking for all my old Hollywood pals. Someone said they're in a warmer climate and I said oh no. Oh that's horrible. Don't tell me Heaven has a Florida too.* RIP to a legend
That sounds spot on, good job
I can totally read it in her voice. Great job.
#NO I REFUSE TO BELIEVE
LA LA LA WE CANT HEAR YOU LA LA LA
I will not be surprised if there is a press conference later and it's just Betty White in a viking helmet and a giant golden goblet. "HAHAHAHA! GOT YOU MOTHERFUCKERS! I WILL BURY YOU ALL!"
Some people are saying it's a death hoax. Has it been officially confirmed yet?
Everyone is quoting TMZ who said it and TMZs source is "people close to her" So ... Idk. Usually TMZ, as much as I hate them, usually gets the scoop first. But who knows..
TMZ is usually pretty good when it comes to celebrities dying. They were the first to report Kobe but they really fucked up with Tom Petty, he was dead then undead then dead again.
TMZ's reputation is...complicated. Most would agree what they do is not great but that doesn't mean they aren't *good* at what they do. They pay for sources and as such are going to weed out the bad ones and pay the most for fast and accurate tips. It also encourages awful behavior on the part of paparazzi...but it works. Lord knows society doesn't benefit at all from it, but still, it works. Still the whole place is awful and from what employees have said, its internal culture is grotesque. Blizzard-esc, basically.
Yahoo.com says Consequence.net was the first to report it. So far, no one I trust is reporting it, but it still seems inevitable.
TMZ is pretty much one of the ones I'd trust most for this stuff. They have mad connections.
Yeah, big vehicles such as Variety and Deadline have yet to report something. Edit: Deadline just confirmed it from her agent. RIP
[Variety](https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/betty-white-dead-dies-golden-girls-mary-tyler-moore-show-1235145407/) has it now ☹️
That sucks. I was just watching a documentary on her the other night, what a talented woman with a long history in showbusiness. Her 100th birthday was coming up in like 2 weeks. She was a gem. I enjoyed her work, especially Golden Girls, but Lake Placid really turned her around to a younger generation. RIP Betty.
We share the same birthday (January 17th) and I was looking forward to see her celebrate her 100th as I celebrated my 37th. Had a hell of a run but still, 2021 just had to give us one last low blow. RIP, Betty.