Last Photos Taken of Celebrities Before They Died
Because they spend most of their lives in the limelight, it is easy to get quite attached to our favorite celebrities. This is even more inevitable when we’re given a glimpse of their personal lives. Sometimes, they may even feel like family or even friends. This is why it’s always a sad state of affairs whenever a star dies, and this goes on to become a real cause of grief for their fans. This is regardless if they died by their own hand after failing depression treatment, or because of their own life choices like botched plastic surgery or drug addiction. When this happens, we can’t help but wonder what their last days or even moments were like. These pictures, from professional photographers or just from the people close to them, offer a bittersweet glance of their last hours on earth and may even offer comfort to the most steadfast of fans.
John Lennon – Died December 8, 1980
John Lennon, the legendary member of The Beatles, died on December 8, 1980, after being shot by a fan, Mark David Chapman. This last photograph of him taken on the same day is a truly eerie one as it shows him and his murderer having an amiable encounter early on. Chapman apparently asked Lennon for an autograph, which the singer happily obliged, even asking Chapman if there was anything else he wanted. The encounter was captured by one of the photographers present at that time who also happened to be a fan, Paul Goresh. Hours later, Chapman shot Lennon 5 times after lying in wait outside The Dakota, the singer’s residence.
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