Dame Dianna Rigg Died Today

[TheQ22]

She was amazing, an icon of the 60's, a well known actor from then up until today.

She died of cancer, and it's so sad because she was so great but it made me think.

I'll never achieve a fraction of what she did, I'll never be an icon like she was, I'll never be a household name like her.

But does that matter?

She was born into a working class family, and became famous, known to everyone in the UK.

If she'd been a recluse, lived in a basement her whole life, and then died - she'd still be at the same point, the same outcome at the end.

Does it matter what we did, or didn't do in our time here, before we die?

We all end up in the same place, with the same finality of nothingness, the same end with nothing before us to remember or in front of us to contemplate.

What does any of it matter? At all? In the end?

We live, we die, and in 1000 years from now who will even know?

We all have to go there in the end, what does any of the 70 or 80 years we have here matter or mean? If we make it that far?

 

[Worndown]

We will miss her. She was always strong on the outside and stronger on the inside.

 

[Soul]

I like to try to make the world a better place. Some do that through great acting or music or other art forms. Some try to be fair in their dealings with other people. Does it matter how many people are affected?

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

I don't know what to say about leaving a legacy, but outside of the UK I don't think as many people today knew about her which is sad. I only knew her from The Great Muppet Caper which she was pretty cool in. May she rest in peace.

 

[Soul]

We will miss her. She was always strong on the outside and stronger on the inside.

Emma Peele looked so freaking cool in those outfits.

 

[GoodPersonEffed]

Death is the great equalizer.

 

[TheQ22]

It's not so much abut her but about any of us. Marie Curie, Albert einstein, Freud , Mozart - anyone.

We only remember them for their works, but even though we remember them, they are still no more, like the lowest of the low will be - Jack Jones, the guy who used to sweep the streets in 1743 in Liverpool - who remembers him?

He existed just like they did - and he dies just like they did - they are in the same place he is - nowhere.

Remembered or not - we all go out and go to the same place, and for us, it's no different.

That was what I was trying to say.

Here, then not here, and all in the same no-place. Whoever you were.

 

[Worndown]

Her hotness should live forever.

 

[overcomingfear]

Everyone tries to live as happy life as they can. That's what it comes down to, happiness and fulfillment. We all are struggling here with that haha

 

[Regen]

Very well written. Its calming me down a little because sometimes my striving for perfection driving me nuts and i try to escape the daily ratrace while my emotions run in circles. You are right, at the end it doesnt matter at all... Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

 

[Greenberg]

I did not remember the name, but she did look awfully familiar from the Game of Throne. Only when it was highlighted that she was the actress who played Emma Peele in the Avengers did I make the connection. A talented actress who only got better over time.

 

[Bauhaus]

She will always be Ms. Peel to me, loved that show when I was a kid. :(

 

[Soul]

She will always be Ms. Peel to me, loved that show when I was a kid. :(

Mrs Peele.
The character was a widow, which was part of her mystique. That and her endlessly hip attire.

 

[Matthias_k]

I had such a crush on her when I was a kid. With her fighting skills, Emma Peel could defeat anyone in less than ten seconds.

 

[Drowning fish]

What does any of it matter? At all? In the end?

We live, we die, and in 1000 years from now who will even know?

We all have to go there in the end, what does any of the 70 or 80 years we have here matter or mean? If we make it that far?

Some lives did make a change to the world and influenced the way we live now. But after death, nothing of it all matters in the theory that there is no after life.

 

[TheQ22]

Some lives did make a change to the world and influenced the way we live now. But after death, nothing of it all matters in the theory that there is no after life.

I was meaning from our personal perspective, i.e. that there is nothing whatever happened to you while you were here.

 

[TheQ22]

I was sad when they replaced Dianna Rig with someone else on the show and I stopped watching it at that point. It was terrible without her. She was the first person I ever saw in a skin tight black shiny cat suit.

Yeah that was Tara King I think. Went a bit too comedic after DR left.