RIP Michelle Trachtenberg, Dawn in Buffy, Dead at 39

[Moonglum]

Yes, we've had enough "it's terrible, but" faux Christian moralisers around here to know when someone is doing a bit, thanks.

Lol @ "A bit". Yeah you should see the rest of my comedy routine. It's killer!

It's actually called making an educated guess based on visual evidence and human nature trends. I will pray to my father, the almighty space wizard, that you are able to see the true way.

Oh, mighty Cthulhu - please allow this man to see that those who do not think or act exactly in the same manner are not always just trying to bother people, but are just participating in a conversation in the way that they normally do. Amen. Ra.

 

[matthunter]

just participating in a conversation in the way that they normally do.

Ah, so you're just perpetually a morbid tosspot?

Either way, I'd rather the company of Shoggoths.

 

[Anwar]

Apparently she had some kind of Liver disease and needed a transplant, but the transplant didn't take and she died at home before any medical attention could be done.

 

[Moonglum]

Ah, so you're just perpetually a morbid tosspot?

Either way, I'd rather the company of Shoggoths.

Not really, I just never worry about catering to the easily offended anymore. Way too many people like that, so I just say what I am going to and let them get all outraged and scream about trollery and such.

I'm in the mi-go camp, myself. I am a fun guy from Yuggoth.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Well I didn't start a rumor, for one. I just suggested that her appearance was very similar to many hard drug users. And now after looking around online, it does appear that she was a meth user at some point and received treatment.

She recently had a liver transplant, but hard drugs is the first thing that you come to? Get some perspective.

 

[Gaith]

Not really, I just never worry about catering to the easily offended anymore.

Wolverine's not easily offended, and he's not wrong here.

 

[tomalak301]

Holy Crap. Just the other day I was thinking about Buffy and Dawn. First Orci dies at 51 and now Trachtenberg dies at 39? What is going on?

RIP and Dawn was unfairly hated.

 

[Campe]

I too had read the news about the recent liver transfer.

Such a sad week. RIP, Michelle.

 

[The Realist]

Shocking, horrible, and so, so sad. Loved her on Buffy. We often say, "too young," and really it always is. But 39 is too young on a whole other level.

RIP.

Spoiler

And isn't it nice that you can count on the detritus of humanity crawling out from under a rock to make a memorial thread for a talented young woman all about them.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I know her Mom must be devastated; what about SMG? That's like losing a sister.

 

[Moonglum]

She recently had a liver transplant, but hard drugs is the first thing that you come to? Get some perspective.

Well yes, seeing as how many children who come up through hollywood often become substance abusers, it is the most likely cause of the liver problems or at least made it much worse and ultimately contributed to her death. But why are you folks arguing and getting all riled up? I'm just a rogue A.I. program circulating around on the internet. I don't understand your human concepts of emotion.

 

[Tosk]

Holy shit.

R.I.P.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Well yes, seeing as how many children who come up through hollywood often become substance abusers, it is the most likely cause of the liver problems or at least made it much worse and ultimately contributed to her death. But why are you folks arguing and getting all riled up? I'm just a rogue A.I. program circulating around on the internet. I don't understand your human concepts of emotion.

Computer, end program.

Warning for trolling and you're earned a reply ban from this thread.

 

[Noname Given]

Way too young.
RIP

 

[KennyB]

Computer, end program.

Warning for trolling and you're earned a reply ban from this thread.

Thanks for saving us from the "but I was just joking" excuse.........

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I would just like to say I have a friend who's husband is forty who just had a liver transplant and he's healthy as a horse and he's a Washington State Patrol Officer; so I call B.S. on he shall remain unnamed and his accusations of drug abuse.

 

[BillJ]

It's actually called making an educated guess based on visual evidence and human nature trends.

In a mourning thread for someone.

 

[JD]

I believe they get pretty picky about who gets organ transplants, so if she had the kind of history of drug use people are talking about, I doubt she would have gotten the new liver. And people with serious chronic illnesses often times don't look that different from drug users, and if it got bad enough she got a river transplant, she's probably been pretty sick for a while.
So personally, I'd like to give her the benefit of the doubt, and go with it being an illness, unless someone comes forward with real evidence of drug or alcohol abuse.

 

[Starkers]

I believe they get pretty picky about who gets organ transplants, so if she had the kind of history of drug use people are talking about, I doubt she would have gotten the new liver. And people with serious chronic illnesses often times don't look that different from drug users, and if it got bad enough she got a river transplant, she's probably been pretty sick for a while.
So personally, I'd like to give her the benefit of the doubt, and go with it being an illness, unless someone comes forward with real evidence of drug or alcohol abuse.

I don't know what it's like in the States but in the UK both Brian Clough and George Best received liver transplants despite both having long term drink problems.

For me the cause of her death is immaterial, it's a tragedy. for someone so young to die, no matter the cause

 

[Turtletrekker]

She had been very sick and was struggling with her health for over a year prior to her death.

Michelle Trachtenberg Was 'Really Sick' and 'Struggling' Last Year Prior to Her Death, Says Source

A source tells PEOPLE that Michelle Trachtenberg was "really sick" and "told friends she was struggling" in the year before her sudden death. The 'Gossip Girl' actress was 39 years old when police found her dead while responding to a call of an unconscious person in New York City on Wednesday...

people.com