Actress Loni Anderson, ex-wife of actor Burt Reynolds and former blonde bombshell on TV's WKRP in Cincinnati that aired from 1978-1982, recently died, just days shy of her 80th birthday. According to reports she had battled a "serious illness" for the last year.
Sad news, yes, but surprising? No. Yet her friend and fellow sitcom actress Barbara Eden, star of I Dream of Jeannie back in the day, posted online that she was "stunned" by the news. (BTW, Barbara is now 93 so she better be prepared for something even more stunning.)
How could anyone be stunned about the death of someone who was 80 years old and had cancer? Or even who was just 80 years old without cancer? Or even young with cancer? Or without cancer and any age? In fact, anyone at all?
We all need to get with the program and accept the fact that everyone dies -- at any time, at any age, for a variety of reasons. You can be sad about the death of a friend or loved one -- or depressed, suicidal, grief-stricken and bereft -- but seriously, you cannot be stunned, which basically means amazed, shocked, astonished, surprised, horrified and dumbstruck.
Until we all learn to view death as a natural end to life, we will never feel relaxed.
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