Lou Reed's death is supposedly an internet hoax.

If it's a wum it's a 5* wum as several media sources are reporting it and there's the usual grief fest on Twitter involving celebrities.

hmmm I think it was a hoax earlier in the week but sunday morning's reports might be the real deal.

It all makes sense

That's what I was thinking. Hoax on Friday yet media sources are only just reporting it? And so many of them as well.

Surely if he was alive his Twitter account would have been updated to quash the rumours.

BBC News - Lou Reed, Velvet Underground frontman, dies at 71

BBC have confirmed it. When you see something on there, it's legit.

RIP.

Announced on Sky News.

Yeah, I was really hoping the rumors of his death were premature, though.

R.I.P. Lou

If only he did more meth, maybe he would have lived longer.

When Chuang Tzu’s wife died, his friend Hui Tzu came to offer his condolences and found Chuang Tzu hunkered down, drumming on a potter pan and singing.

Hui Tzu said, “You lived with her, raised children with her, and grew old together. Even weeping is not enough, but now you are drumming and singing. Is it a bit too much?”
Chuang Tzu said, “That is not how it is. When she just died, how could I not feel grief? But I looked deeply into it and saw that she was lifeless before she was born. She was also formless and there was not any energy. Somewhere in the vast imperceptible universe there was a change, an infusion of energy, and then she was born into form, and into life. Now the form has changed again, and she is dead. Such death and life are like the natural cycle of the four seasons. My dead wife is now resting between heaven and earth. If I wail at the top of my voice to express my grief, it would certainly show a failure to understand what is fated. Therefore I stopped.”

An excerpt from the Book of Chuang Tzu. There's wisdom in those words.

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