Samhain is the Celtic New Year. As one year ends and another begins, it is our practice to remember all we have lost in the previous year. The list is usually placed upon altars along with pictures and/or other memorabilia. Sometimes the list is recited. I make it available to the community to do any of these or merely to read over the names.
These are well-known people (most of them) who have died since last Nov. 1 until today. Some names may not be loved but all souls are remembered and healing for their souls sent. Even to those who lived (and died) in the grip of hatred and violence. The ones with an (S) behind their names were suicides; extra healing for their souls. Here is the list from Nov. 1, 2008 through today:
Jørn Utzon
V.P. Singh
Edna Parker
De'Angelo Wilson (S)
Vitaly Karayev
Hemant Karkare
Cecil H. Underwood
Richard Hickox
Ibrahim Nasir
Rashid Rauf
Boris Fyodorov
Pete Newell
Reg Varney
Ivan Southall
Catherine Baker Knoll
Mitch Mitchell
Howard Reig
Arthur Shawcross
Miriam Makeba
Amrozi
Imam Samudra
Ali Ghufron
Jody Reynolds
B.R. Chopra
Michael Crichton
David Shaber
Juan Camilo Mouriño
Byron Lee
Lennart Bergelin
Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham
Ahmed al-Mirghani
Yma Sumac
Jimmy Carl Black
Jacques Piccard
Shakir Stewart (S)
Freddie Hubbard
Robert Graham
Jaafar of Malaysia
Justin Eilers
Gösta Krantz
Eartha Kitt
Samuel P. Huntington
Harold Pinter
Lansana Conté
Dale Wasserman
Olga Lepeshinskaya
Adrian Mitchell
Robert Mulligan
James Bevel
Bernard Crick
Dock Ellis
Majel Barrett
Jack Douglas
W. Mark Felt
Robert Jonquet
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Paul Weyrich
Sammy Baugh
Sam Bottoms
Leon Febres Cordero
Davey Graham
Horst Tappert
Kathy Staff
Avery Cardinal Dulles
Van Johnson
Ron Carey
Bettie Page
Didith Reyes
Oliver Postgate
Marky Cielo
Sunny von Bülow
Patriarch Alexy II of Russia
Forrest J Ackerman
Odetta
Carlos Abascal
Edward Samuel Rogers
Frank Crean
H. Guy Hunt
Ingemar Johansson
Bill Frindall
John Martyn
Wendell Wyatt
Billy Powell
John Updike
James Brady
Mamadou Dia
Kay Yow
George Perle
Jean Jadot
David Newman
Tony Hart
Anders Isaksson
Edmund Leopold de Rothschild
Sidney Brichto
Andrew Wyeth
John Mortimer
Tapan Sinha
Ricardo Montalbán
Doña Mary Ejercito
Patrick McGoohan
Dai Llewellyn
Claude Berri
Arne Næss
Pio Laghi
David Vine
Bill Stone
Eluned Phillips
T. Llew Jones
Rob Gauntlett
Richard John Neuhaus
Lasantha Wickramatunga
Ron Asheton
Adolf Merckle (S)
Cheryl Holdridge
Carl Pohlad
Griffin Bell
Lei Clijsters
Hisayasu Nagata (S)
Pat Hingle
Ulf G. Lindén
Sir Alan Walters
Maria de Jesus
Willard Warren Scott, Jr.
Edmund Purdom
Claiborne Pell
Helen Suzman
Nizar Rayan
Wendy Richard
Philip José Farmer
Larry H. Miller
Socks
Kelly Groucutt
Snooks Eaglin
Kamila Skolimowska
Michael John Whitmarsh (S)
Stephen Kim Sou-hwan
Bernard Albert Ashley
Hugh Leonard
Estelle Bennett
Willem Johan Kolff
Rail Rzayev
Carolyn George
Eluana Englaro
Orlando "Cachaito" López
Jeremy Lusk
Marian Cozma
Blossom Dearie
Brian Naylor
Reg Evans
Philip Carey
James Whitmore
Bashir Ahmad
Noah Weinberg
Antonie Dixon
Lux Interior
Sheng-yen
Joe M. Rodgers
James E. Long
Tim Grundy
Michael Homer
Peter Howson
Lukas Foss
Mark Fortier
Andy Hallett
Jade Goody
Natasha Richardson
Nicholas Farrar Hughes (S)
Nicholas Henderson
Ron Silver
Altovise Davis
Alain Bashung
Anne Brown
Alan W. Livingston
William Davidson
Andrew Martin
James Purdy
Leonore Annenberg
Tim Kretschmer
Joseph Martin
Ernest Trova
Hank Locklin
Ali Bongo
Jimmy Boyd
Jang Ja-yeon (S)
Daniel E. Button
Jim Bellows
Colleen Howe
Susan Tsvangirai
Henri Pousseur
Francis Magalona
John Cephas
Yvon Cormier
Patricia De Martelaere
Horton Foote
George McAfee
Salvatore Samperi
Sydney Earle Chaplin
Ernie Ashworth
Chris Finnegan
João Bernardo Vieira
Baska
Mark I. Levy (S)
Maurice Jarre
Lou Saban
Janet Jagan
Vern Gosdin
Ekaterina Sergeevna Maximova
Woo Seung-yeon (S)
Arnold Meri
Penor Rinpoche
John Hope Franklin
Dan Seals
Giovanni Parisi
Yukio Endo
George Kell
Deborah Digges (S)
Thomas Wardell Braden
Mark Steven "The Bird" Fidrych
Marie Olbermann
Jack D. Hunter
Jack Wrangler
Marvin Nathaniel Webster
Harold Norbert "Harry" Kalas
Marilyn Chambers
Ronald Takaki (S)
Feroz Khan
Beatrice Arthur
Roh Moo-hyun (S)
Ken Annakin
Jack Cardiff
Jack Jones
Chris Stewart
Lucy Gordon (S)
J. G. Ballard
Doc Blanchard
Wayne Anthony Allwine
Edward George
Bill Orton
Viktor Paskov
Clement Freud
Wayman Lawrence Tisdale
Peter Rogers
Mark Fidrych
Jack D. Hunter
Harry Kalas
Kevin Grubb (S)
George Martin Zinkhan, III (S)
Blue Iris
Charles Jerome "Chuck" Daly
Dominic Paul DiMaggio
Mickey Carroll
Jack French Kemp
Dominick "Dom" DeLuise
Danny Gans
David Batters (S)
Billy Mays
Farrah Fawcett
Michael Jackson
Yasmine (S)
Roméo LeBlanc
Ed McMahon
Jerri Nielsen
Phyllis Busansky
Steve Race
Neda Agha-Soltan
Ali Akbar Khan
Ralf Dahrendorf
John Houghtaling
Bob Bogle
Mitsuharu Misawa
Felix Malloum
Huey Long
Norman E. Brinker
Karl Michael Vogler
David Carradine
Bobby Robson
Peter Zadek
George Russell
Merce Cunningham
Stanley Middleton
Harry Patch
José Carlos da Costa Araújo
Harry Towb
E. Lynn Harris
Frank McCourt
Henry Surtees
Henry Allingham
Meir Amit
Walter Cronkite
Leszek Kołakowski
Natalia Estemirova
Reg Fleming
Arturo Gatti
Ji Xianlin
Edward Downes
Ebba Haslund
Martin Streek (S)
Vasily Aksyonov
Oscar G. Mayer, Jr.
Robert McNamara
Mathieu Montcourt
Takeo Doi
Allen Klein
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Robert Louis-Dreyfus
Steve McNair
Lasse Strömstedt
Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard
Alexis Argüello
Karl Malden
Marwa El-Sherbini
Mollie Sugden
Lyudmila Zykina
Don Joseph Cook
Simon Dee
Richard J. Egan (S)
Adam Goldstein ("DJ AM")
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim
Dominick Dunne
Ellie Greenwich
Ted Kennedy
Toni Sailer
Muriel Duckworth
Elmer Kelton
Johnny Carter
Dudu Topaz (S)
Larry Knechtel
Don Hewitt
Rose Friedman
Kim Dae-jung
Hugo Loetscher
Robert Novak
Tiffany Simelane (S)
Patrick Swayze
Henry Gibson
Myles Brand
Mary Travers
Linda C Black
Tommy Burnett
W Horace Carter
Monte Clark
Joe Al Howell
Bobby Model
Dan Walker
Dick Hoover
John Hughes
Jim Carroll
Paul Burke
Darren John Sutherland (S)
Lucy Vodden
Susan Denise Atkins
Myles David Brand
Larry Simon Gelbart
Armand "Army" Archerd
Otar Chiladze
André-Philippe Futa
Syed Kamal
Luigi Moro
V. M. Muddiah
Bhandit Rittakol
Cintio Vitier
Alain Bernheim
Marek Edelman
Jack Evans
Nat Finkelstein
Mr. Magic
Saleh Meki
Peg Mullen
Desmond Plummer
Rolf Rüssmann
Herman D. Stein
Harvey Veniot
Alexander Basilaia
Fernando Caldeiro
Queen Fatima
Gunnar Haarberg
Robert Kirby
Ernie Lopez
Fritz Marsch
Reinhard Mohn
Mike Peters
Veikko Huovinen
Grace Keagy
Ernő Kolczonay
Shōichi Nakagawa
Jim Nettleton
Nikiforos
Günther Rall
Mercedes Sosa
Mike Alexander
Suzanne Fiol
Israel Gelfand
Giselher Klebe
Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Kevin McGee (S)
Heidi Oetinger
Tim Wheatley
Douglas Campbell
Aengus Finucane
Pyarelal Khandelwal
Paul Fay
William Safire
Captain Lou Albano
Daniel Melnick
Maxine Marx
Soupy Sales
Shiloh Pepin
Michael Philippi
Aisling Celine Symes
Babu Augustine
Sitara Achakzai
Norman Painting
Ian Blanchard
August Coppola
Our troops in the Middle East
Victims of murder
Victims of domestic violence
Victims of the wars
Rosemary For Remembrance
Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet.
Let it not be a death but completeness.
Let love melt into memory and pain into songs.
Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest.
Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night.
Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence.
I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.
Please feel free to add names...