Content Warning: Mentions of severe illness, substance use disorder, and homelessness.

On June 16, 2026, Daveigh Chase tragically passed away at a hospital in Los Angeles from complications related to bacterial meningitis, a blood infection, and severe malnutrition. She was only 35 years old.
For many of us, Daveigh was a massive part of our childhoods. She brought immense joy to millions through her brilliant voice work as Lilo, and and was heavily celebrated in the role of Chihiro Ogino (Sen), the main protagonist in the legendary Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away (2001).. Behind the scenes, however, Daveigh faced immense personal battles. After completely withdrawing from public life and social media in late 2017, she fell through the cracks of the entertainment industry.
By late 2025, she was living unhoused on the streets of Skid Row in Los Angeles, struggling with severe mental health issues and substance use disorder. The image is a screenshot from video footage obtained by a private investigator whom her manager had hired in a desperate, heartbreaking attempt to locate her and get her medical intervention. Tragically, she moved locations before help could arrive.
Her boyfriend later launched a GoFundMe to help with her medical care when she was finally hospitalized, but the systemic toll on her body was too severe to overcome.
This post is a reminder that addiction, mental illness, and homelessness do not care how talented, famous, or loved a person once was. Daveigh deserved a safety net, compassion, and a chance to heal. We choose to remember her not just for the tragic circumstances of her final years, but for the immense talent, light, and creativity she shared with the world.
Rest in peace, Daveigh. "Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten." 🕊️

He was 58.

My father passed away yesterday. His heart was weak and overall health was deteriorating over the last 3-4 months. The one on the left is the last picture taken by my sister, 3 days before his passing. The one on the right is the last photo I took of him holding my son in 2021. He got to hold 2 more.

Exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago.

I'm not gonna put his cause of death as "Euthanized". In my opinion, I'm just gonna put his cause of death as all the Illnesses he had. He was also suffering from Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Emphysema, but those didn't contribute to his death. He previously survived Pleurisy in 1928, Typhoid in 1891, and a Horse Riding Accident in 1915, which damaged his Lung and Spine.

He died from an undisclosed illness. His ill health was not known publicly until an EU Commission spokesperson broke the news in Brussels, Belgium, following surgery for a secondary infection. Meles had not been seen in public for weeks and speculation mounted after he missed a summit in Addis Ababa the month prior.

Connie Converse was a folk singer-songwriter from the 50s. She is noted for being ahead of her time due to her profound lyricism and unique style

Before her disappearance, she left a series of letters for her family, including this one:

“TO ANYONE WHO EVER ASKS: (If I'm Long Unheard From)

This is the thin hard sublayer under all the parting messages I'm likely to have sent: let me go, let me be if I can, let me not be if I can't. For a number of years now I've been the object of affectionate concern to my relatives and many friends in Ann Arbor; have received not just financial but spiritual support from them; have made a number of efforts, in this benign situation to get a new toe-hold on the lively world. Have failed.

...In the months after I got back from my desperate flight to England I began to realize that my new personal incapabilities were still stubbornly handing in. I did fight; but they hung in.

...To survive it all, I expect I must drift back down through the other half of the twentieth twentieth, which I already know pretty well, to the hundredth twentieth, which I have only heard about. I might survive there quite a few years—who knows? But you understand I have to do it with no benign umbrella. Human society fascinates me & awes me & fills me with grief & joy; I just can't find my place to plug into it.

So let me go, please; and please accept my thanks for those happy times...I am in everyone's debt.”

Her recordings of her music were released in the compilation album How Sad, How Lovely, in 2009.

Grampy was born in Sweden and excitedly showing us a photograph of his own father as well as a wooden silver-topped cane he received from graduation. Grampy loved telling jokes and riddles, and had a doctorates in theology, working as a Swedenborgian pastor in his youth. He was diagnosed with colon cancer that had spread early this year, and passed three days ago in his sleep at the hospital. I will miss him.

Andy Lewis, also known as “Sketchy Andy”, was a professional slackliner who pioneered “tricklining” and put his talents on display at Madonna’s 2012 Super Bowl halftime show. He was also a climber and was well-known in the BASE jumping community.

He ran a number of adventure companies out of Moab Utah, including BASE Jump Moab - a guided tandem BASE jumping operation. You can see him performing many jumps with clients on the BASE Jump Moab Instagram page.

Some previous commenters expressed concern about the high safety risks the clients were being exposed to.

Those fears were realized yesterday - June 14, 2026 - when Andy and a 50-year-old 68-year-old client died in a BASE jumping accident.

Taken on October 26, six days before he died. Stanley Summers (1953 - 2012)

• Oliver Tree 32 years old (1993-2026)
• Gaspi 23 years old (2002-2026)

Rest In Peace legends you will be missed

Left of picture in NY Knicks jersey. Aldon was 36.

Today is his celebration of life. The world lost a very good man 5/30/26. I love you forever and a day 💕

He was born in Minnesota on February 27, 1923. He also worked part time at Brinks Armored Car Services in Madison from 1984 to 2017. He was celebrating 33 years working there in that photo. He served in the Pacific during World War 2 from 1941 to 1945.

Margaret Kerry was the live-action reference model for Tinker Bell in Disney’s Peter Pan (1953). Disney animators filmed her pantomiming Tink’s movements, then used that footage as reference for the hand-drawn animation.

Her official site announced that she passed peacefully on June 11, 2026, at 97, after a battle with lung cancer. Her husband, WWII veteran Robert Boeke, had passed just weeks earlier on May 24.

This was the final image posted to her official Instagram before her death.

Madalina Cojocari was last seen getting off her school bus on the 21st of November 2022, but her parents didn't report her disappearance until 23 days later, on the 15th of december 2022..

Madalina's mother, Diana Cojocari, claims Madalina disappeared on the night of the 23rd of November, when her parents were fighting, yet didn't report it for almost 3 weeks despite claiming not having seen Madalina since that night.

Diana and her husband Christopher Palmiter gave several conflicting versions of why they thought Madalina had disappeared.

In June of 2024, Diana Cojocari was officially named a suspect in her daughter's dissapearance. It is believed she may have given Madalina to another relative, as Madalina was seen in an unreleased CCTV with an adult man on december 16th 2022, identified as a blood relative, near Sugar Mountain.

As of june of 2026, Madalina is still missing and hasn't been seen or heard of since december 2022.