Why did Jim Croce have to die?

[SeekingTruth]

What is the purpose of Jim Croce's death? Why, why are such wonderful people taken from us?!?!

[Renew Deal]

1. .

[johnnie]

2. It's amazing....

......how many good songs he recorded in such a short time.

[Voltaire99]

3. A: To get to the other side.

See? That punchline works with both chicken and Croce jokes. ;-)

[kestrel91316]

4. Um, because................

the plane hit the ground REALLY hard??

Ok, spank me.:spank:

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[kestrel91316]

15. Sheesh, some people have NO sense of humor.

EXCUUUUUUUUUSE ME.

[Bertha Venation]

20. Others have no sense of when to hold their jokes.

Have a nice day.

[name not needed]

21. Haha!

:spank: :D

[serryjw]

6. ...and Gracie Slick...and Jim Morrison.....

miss them all......Why do the good die young....and Chaney will out live all of us even with a heart condition:P

[yardwork]

7. Did Grace Slick die? When did that happen?

[Spinzonner]

8. Grace will be very surprised to hear that she's dead

I assume s/he meant Janis Joplin

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. Nah, I don't think anything would suprise Grace.... she has seen

it all.

[edbermac]

10. Keith Richards looks like he died 20 years ago...

But he's still breathing...go figure...

:headbang:

[serryjw]

11. Sorry I meant Janis Joplin!

It's late here.......I'm tired!

[KT2000]

12. Have you seen the PBS show

Croce's wife has a show about him and his music. He sure was good.

[jdonaldball]

13. Why did Ernest Hemingway cross the road?

A: "To die. In the rain."
(But anyway, big Croce fan here. And Jim would enjoy the joke.)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

22. To buy a shotgun.

And then die. In the rain. On the porch.

[hlthe2b]

14. there's a dvd out with his music and interviews.... highly recommend!

I almost went into journalism when, as a junior high student I won a photojournalism contest with a slide presentation pairing scenes from Vietham atrocities, including Mai Lai and the infamous "napalming photos" with Croce's "Time in a Bottle." He really touched me and his folky/bluesy style on many of his songs was just wonderful.


Along with Harry Chapin, we lost two wonderful storytellers in that decade.

[KG]

16. why is Bob Ross dead and Dick Cheney still alive?

proof there is no god.

[Tom_Foolery]

17. I ask the same question about...

Buddy Holly, Harry Chapin, Otis Redding, Jim Reeves, Patsy Cline, and many more.

[arwalden]

18. It Was A Tragic Accident. There Was No "Reason" Or "Purpose"...

It's a fact that everyone dies. In trying to accept or cope with the loss of a loved one, many humans try to mystify death by pretending or visualizing a "greater good" or "higher purpose" that THEIR loved one was "chosen" to die.

-- Allen

Jim Croce lived his life to the fullest until the day he died. Isn't that sad that so many folks waste their ONE life here, not living it to the fullest, in anticipation of something else that will never come.

[Bertha Venation]

19. I don't know, but I think of him every time

I play my guitar. He's one of the reasons I picked up a guitar in the first place.

Martin makes a Croce tribute guitar. It has a mint 1973 dime implanted at the third (?) fret ("you can keep the dime"). I lust after that guitar, but I'd rather have Jim alive.