| those_were_the_days 29.08.2005 18:10 |
does anyone have the last picture of freddie alive? i know its kind of a weird request but i'd be interested to see it. I have the photo of him in the garden with his cat but i've heard that there is another one with him on his death bed...its sad :( but i wanna see it...does anyone have it? thanks alot you guys |
| those_were_the_days 29.08.2005 18:22 |
how is it sick <_< im not some sick necropheliac...other ppl have it..i wanna see it...not for my pleasure..out of interest..since im a fan of queen |
| Winter Land Man 29.08.2005 18:38 |
<b><font color = "crimson">ThomasQuinn wrote: That is very, very sick, you know.It's actually something newer fans want to know. The curiousity of the last days, is something people can't resist. If there was a photo of Freddie on the day he recorded the vocals to Mother Love, you would look at it, and save the photo to your computer. |
| teleman 29.08.2005 18:45 |
I guess you might call it morbid curiousity. Dying is a very intense personal experience and I doubt Freddie would want anyone to see a picture. I would choose to be respectful but I'm sure we've all been rubber-neckers when there's been a traffic accident. |
| QUEENROCKS_1991 29.08.2005 20:20 |
Freddie wanted to die peacefully so respect him for what he wanted |
| its_a_hard_life 29.08.2005 20:22 |
:'( no i dont have it and i wouldnt want to. |
| L-R-TIGER1994 30.08.2005 01:17 |
Here it is: link |
| JWS3 30.08.2005 06:25 |
The photo of Freddie on his death bed is in the Peter Freestone biography. It was taken in August 91 (according to PF anyway) |
| cream 30.08.2005 09:18 |
Freddie looks fine in that Peter Freestone pic |
| LIZAWITHAZ 30.08.2005 09:32 |
You are sick person! Why would you want to see that! You remind me of those sick individuals on Ebay who are selling Freddie Will and his Death Certificate...PISS THE HELL OFF! |
| those_were_the_days 30.08.2005 11:21 |
wtf is ur problems??? im just interested...does anyone have it??? i really wanna see it..how is it sick?? his will on ebay..its memorabilia..jeez..its not like haha i have a dead celebrities death certificate..its like whoa i have freddie mercury from queen one of the most famous bands in the worlds death certificate and im gonna take care of it cause its a piece of history...sheesh you oversensitive people.. |
| Bob-Plant 30.08.2005 11:37 |
I have to agree that it's a little too morbid to want to see that photo. I prefer to wish to remember Frddie as a larger-than-life entertainer. If I were to see a photo of him as he must have appeared near the end, well it's an image I can do without. I mean, do you also want to a picture of Lady Di that horrible night? How about Bob Marley? Maybe John Bonham? Perhaps someday some insensative idiot will want to see a picture of you at your worst, on the slab and then you'll understand. |
| john bodega 30.08.2005 11:46 |
I used to get offended at this sort of thing. It don't bother me anymore. I don't think it's nice - but at the same time, if the guy wants to look at some cadavers, let 'em. Though I might point out that I'm pretty sure no such photo exists. There is no deathbed photo of him, because it just doesn't make sense. They stopped taking photos of him because he didn't want them taken anymore, obviously. That last one of him in the garden is a great way to finish: he's able to stand and enjoy his garden and his cats. Why the fuck would one say to Jim Hutton: "Hey, I'm bored - take a photo of me wasting away in my bed!" So yeah - look at it this way. There are a couple of very ill looking photos of Freddie in this site (in the gallery). What's one more? Either band together to have the said photos taken down, or leave the guy alone. |
| tia 30.08.2005 11:48 |
There is one from AUg/91 on page 12 of freddies pictures in the picture gallery. I dont think theres anything wrong with wanting to see what he looked like those last months. |
| deleted user 30.08.2005 13:06 |
there have been hundreds of topics about this .. and everyone show a new pic that is thought as the last one.. |
| Penetration_Guru 30.08.2005 14:59 |
If you're a fan of Queen, listen to the music. If you're a ghoulish obsessive, look at photos of men dying. |
| JWS3 31.08.2005 04:43 |
Barn - you said try 81. I've been a Queen fan 31 years and know my stuff, I was only trying to help someone with a query. The query was "There's a photo of Freddie on his death bed" and according to the photo the captions says "The last photo of Freddie, August 91" |
| Lisser 31.08.2005 09:53 |
Penetration_Guru wrote: If you're a fan of Queen, listen to the music. If you're a ghoulish obsessive, look at photos of men dying.Wurd up |
| john bodega 31.08.2005 11:01 |
I don't see the harm. Ok. It's on the nose and not very pleasant. But - he's dead. He's either in oblivion, and therefore thinks nothing about anything because he doesn't exist, or - he's in some kind of afterlife and far too busy being there to give a flying flip about whether or not some dude on the internet wants to see him in a state of poor health. At the time, this sort of concern was relevant. A man's privacy was being assaulted when he should've been allowed to die in peace. But that struggle is over, the guy has been dead for fourteen years. It does not matter anymore. August 1991... I regrettably came across that one on the BBC site. Not nice. Still could've been worse though. He could've been mooning the camera. |
| deleted user 01.09.2005 20:23 |
Everybody calm down! Its just curiousity. I watch things about Freddie dying over and over again, not because I'm sick or mean, because I want to mourn him and I guess I want Freddie to see that I care a lot. Its not rude, its just...I don't know, you can't really explain it. Please don't be mad at me. :-( |
| deleted user 01.09.2005 20:57 |
seriously, i dont really want to see it, but i dont really understand how it is sick either sorry i cant get you the picture anyway, i would help if i could |
| mercuryqueen 01.09.2005 23:23 |
I dont see it as a problem. I had the same curiosity. I wanted to know everything about him up to the point where he died, and i would look at every picture of him. If he wanted a picture of him getting a autopsy, that would be a little sick, but the last picture of Freddie Mercury is a treasured item. I would kill to own it. Its history, the last time the most brilliant man ever was captured for the world to see. |
| Penetration_Guru 02.09.2005 16:37 |
"I would kill to own it" Thank you, you made my point very clear. |
| those_were_the_days 02.09.2005 19:05 |
hey thanks alot you guys..:D:D |
| john bodega 03.09.2005 00:21 |
those_were_the_days: You've probably SEEN the last picture of Freddie, if you've trawled the pictures section of this site. There's some paparazzi stuff in there - awful it may be, but I'm only trying to answer your question without biting your head off. Also, to get technical - depending on the faith of a given cadaver, autopsy photos aren't an option. Take George Harrison. Soon as he quit breathing full time, they bagged him, cremated him and trucked him off to India. As I understand it, they didn't stop for photo opportunities at the morgue. There you have it. I don't think Freddie was done and dusted quite so quickly, but all the same I don't think they bothered morticianicising him, or taking photos for that matter. I actually remember a REALLY good debate on this topic, at this very site. Some guy was asking for Freddie Mercury's last photo, and this guy was ragging on him ceaselessly... so someone else wandered in and said there were two ridiculous extreme sides to this argument. One was the side that thought Freddie was a God and that looking at him while he was sick was a crime. The other side (and this is my favourite, I laughed so hard I nearly threw up) was: "This guy wants to see autopsy photos, he wants to see photos of John Deacon crying at the funeral". Maybe I'm a sadist, but that last bit just makes me fucking laugh my nuts off. Look, you've also got to understand, this is Freddie Mercury. Even in his extremely weakened state, he was a firebrand. I reckon if you walked up to him with a camera in those last days, he would've had you shot, even if your name was Jim Hutton. Is it so hard to understand that there *is* no deathbed photo? Who would take one? Why? It also wasn't a murder, technically speaking, so there's no need for a crime scene photo to be taken... basically, what you were asking for does not exist. To bring this back to some sort of point : yes, quite a few photos were taken towards the end of Fred going around town etcetera. They're on the site. Go get 'em. |
| Winter Land Man 03.09.2005 06:39 |
Zebonka12 wrote: I don't see the harm. Ok. It's on the nose and not very pleasant. But - he's dead. He's either in oblivion, and therefore thinks nothing about anything because he doesn't exist, or - he's in some kind of afterlife and far too busy being there to give a flying flip about whether or not some dude on the internet wants to see him in a state of poor health. At the time, this sort of concern was relevant. A man's privacy was being assaulted when he should've been allowed to die in peace. But that struggle is over, the guy has been dead for fourteen years. It does not matter anymore. August 1991... I regrettably came across that one on the BBC site. Not nice. Still could've been worse though. He could've been mooning the camera.I have one of him from late 90 or sometime in 91 bending over :-S |
| those_were_the_days 03.09.2005 09:31 |
just to clear something up..i never wanted autopsy photos :S i dont know where that came up. I just heard about a deathbed photo some guy snapped and I was interested in seeing it or any pic of him in his later days..not to be sick..when I see pics of him like that it makes me sad but i want to cause im interested..anyways yeah thanks you guys. |
| john bodega 03.09.2005 12:35 |
Actually, if I mentioned autopsy photos, it was either in reference to something someone else said, or simply quoting that other guy. Heh. |
| Penetration_Guru 03.09.2005 19:05 |
Wanting to see someone on their deathbed isn't sick? TURN ON THE FUCKING NEWS. WATCH SOME FOOTAGE OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IN NEW ORLEANS. GET YOUR FIX. |
| john bodega 04.09.2005 07:55 |
Yes. I'm sure those suffering people are living a little easier, knowing that you are trying to use them to get your point across. Charming. |
| Penetration_Guru 04.09.2005 15:14 |
Well, I apologise to them for your being so stupid that my point needed hammering home so specifically. |
| _Amie_ 04.09.2005 15:41 |
link There is a picture of him there months before his death, now lets leave it at that. |
| Forever88 04.09.2005 16:05 |
link enjoy... |
| kdj2hot 04.09.2005 17:30 |
*3* Forever88 wrote: link enjoy...It's not a bad picture, Freddie doen't look in pain, it's cute with his cats on the bed. I dont know why people get so bent out of shape over stuff like that. |
| john bodega 05.09.2005 00:08 |
"Well, I apologise to them for your being so stupid that my point needed hammering home so specifically. " This would make sense, if your post had a point in the first place. But like a drunk trying to get into a taxi, you stumble and dawdle on the keyboard. Failing miserably. And how on earth am I stupid? Because I 'disagree' with you? My Goodness! I'll look over the thread and try and find exactly what it is that highlights me as stupid in your view... ... hmmm. Ok - I defended this fella because he wants to cop a look at a picture of Fred on his deathbed, or before he died, or whatnot. People called it sick. I said it wasn't a nice thing, but that in Fred's case it was no longer relevant because he's been dead for over a decade, and that if people knew of any such picture, that they should just shuddup and hand it over. To end discussion and whatever. So you brought up the issue of the Katrina victims. That was, in my view, stupido. These people are still suffering. There is a difference between getting off on watching something as it happens, showing no regard for people that are still in pain, and looking at a picture of a guy with his cats eating a bowl of Fruity Loops. Oh, and he's been dead for fourteen years and doesn't care anymore. In your desperation to point out some kind of immorality in those_were_the_days and myself, you've come across like a total tool. You are not a guru. |
| those_were_the_days 05.09.2005 15:15 |
well said brother |
| Penetration_Guru 05.09.2005 15:50 |
OOOh, they're sticking together. Beware the solidarity of the ghouls. OK, following your logic, it's not ok to watch people die, but it is ok to look at the footage after their death. How soon? Where's the crossover point? Technically by the time I saw footage of people dying they were already dead so (to use your argument) where's the harm? Whereas my point remains - if you WANT to see ANYBODY as they lie dying, then that's ghoulish, irrespective of the timing. |
| those_were_the_days 05.09.2005 19:23 |
hes a celebrity...celebrities pay the price of publicity like this. yes he is a person but to alot of people unfortunately he's an object and people forget about feelings. did I forget? no.. but the fact that hes a celebrity gave me an interest to see him in his last days. yes its an invasion of privacy and might be a bit odd but can i help what gives me interest and what not? you just wanna keep going till u prove urself right so how bout we end this pointless argument over people that don't even know eachother's different views on whether or not its ok to see dead people. |
| Penetration_Guru 06.09.2005 14:08 |
Well I can see the logic of my point, so yes, I keep going. However, your point now seems to be "Fred decided to be a celebrity, so should have accepted that photos of him dying would become public" Which is immature, stupid, unreasonable, rude and lots of other words. In my opinion. |
| john bodega 08.09.2005 01:43 |
No, you do have a point in that it's always distasteful. What I meant was that this long after the fact, it's not worth bothering about anymore is it? Ok - looking at dead or suffering people is a damned wierd way to find entertainment, but what I'm getting at is that it's not worth haranguing the guy over it. He wants to see it? It's his own look out. |
| inu-liger 17.09.2005 02:47 |
kdj2hot wrote:Hate to point this out, but that photo was taken in 1981, *not* 1991*3* Forever88 wrote: link enjoy...It's not a bad picture, Freddie doen't look in pain, it's cute with his cats on the bed. I dont know why people get so bent out of shape over stuff like that. |
| Forever88 17.09.2005 09:06 |
Sure? Cos he looks to have a beard and quite thin. That, and most sites I saw this on said "August/September/October etc. 1991" |
| john bodega 17.09.2005 13:19 |
Ehm. Well his hair looks like it did in the 90's, and his nose is really skinny. Looks like '91 to me but I won't argue further because hey - for a brief period in '81 maybe he said "I'd like to go for the starving Ethiopian look". The definitive way (ie. for people with too much spare time) would be to look at the cats on his bed, find out which ones they are and at what period in time that he owned them, then there you go. Then again, you could look at his bony forearm. If I sit back from the screen and take a good long look, it's a pretty ambiguous picture.. could be 81 after all. Who knows, at first glance I'd say it's later. |
| brittenanny 09.01.2006 07:10 |
Wow. People are ridiculous. I don't think it's sick to request his last photo. That's a special thing. The last photo of Freddie Mercury alive. I think it's kinda weird for you people to be so disgusted by it, actually. This man that you all love, but you don't want to see the last photo's taken while he was still with us? I'm a new fan, so I've been reading up and looking at pictures and his death is a big part of the band. And what an amazing band they were. |
