When Did They Die Within Five Years

I'm assuming you're talking about the Queen? That was a big deal but I actually thought you were talking about Kobe Bryant in your initial comment! I feel like Kobe and Charlie Kirk have been the most important deaths culturally of the last few years, whereas the Pope and the Queen have been important for other reasons.

The Queen and Charlie Kirk are two people where I think I will always distinctly remember where I was. For the Queen, I was standing at a Giant waiting for my turkey to be sliced at the deli counter when I decided to take out my phone and saw the headline. For Kirk, I was in the OR watching a small bowel resection (the other medical student was scrubbed in so I was sorta just at the side) and my friend texted me about it. It's funny the details you remember--I know people say they remember exactly where they were during the JFK assassination or 9/11. I suppose this is the equivalent for my generation.

For Kirk I was in a hostel in Budapest

Early deaths are more memorable, and newsworthy, than deaths of old age.

fair point i guess but including damn harambe and club penguin and rocket raccoon is wild alongside people who actually died, plus the image feels like a 2016 “welcome home” image; but im just a woke liberal so my point is invalid i suppose