Alan Greenspan died in June at 100. Hayden Panettiere died last Sunday at 36—about a week short of her 37th birthday.
The internet has one explanation for both: somebody, somewhere, must have done it.
Have you noticed that nobody ever really “dies” any more? Move the deadline often enough, and eventually everyone dies right on schedule.
Certainly, nobody famous. Nobody politically important. Nobody who once knew somebody important, embarrassed somebody important, or appeared in a photograph with the Clintons. Those people don’t die. They get silenced. They knew too much. They were about to expose something. They crossed the wrong people.
Panettiere was found in cardiac arrest at an apartment in Greenville, South Carolina. Paramedics could not revive her. The cause and manner of death remain undetermined. An autopsy found no trauma contributing to her death, and police found no evidence of foul play. The Drug Enforcement Administration is assisting Greenville police. All signs point to a drug overdose.
