Our time on this rock is finite. It's precious, fragile, and has an expiration date. It's sad, but it's just part of the deal. And that means that everyone we love and admire is living on borrowed time, as it were—from our family members to our favorite celebrities. And 2018 was full of reminders of that very thing, with legends and icons spanning the likes of Stan Lee and Aretha Franklin, Penny Marshall and Burt Reynolds passing away, having lived lives well spent.
But 2018, too, was a year full of the sort of untimely passings that leave the world stunned. While all death is certainly sad, these were the losses that came out of nowhere, felling people seemingly in their primes. These were people who provided the soundtracks to our lives or the wardrobe in our closets, people who we watched on TV and who, though we didn't know personally, somehow felt like family. And they were people that we simply were not ready to say goodbye to just yet.
The music world was hit especially hardest this year when it came to people being taken far too soon, beginning with the shocking loss of The Cranberries' lead singer Dolores O'Riordan in mid-January.
Fans of the band, best known for their early '90s hits "Linger" and "Zombie," were rocked when, after police were called to a hotel in London, where a woman in her mid-40s was pronounced dead on the scene, the singer's publicist confirmed to BBC News that it was O'Riordan whose body had been discovered.
"The lead singer with the Irish band The Cranberries was in London for a short recording session. No further details are available at this time," the publicist's statement read. "Family members are devastated to hear the breaking news and have requested privacy at this very difficult time."
O'Riordan's bandmates—guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan and drummer Fergal Lawler—whom she'd reunited with in 2009 following a six-year hiatus, took to Twitter to share their thoughts on the passing of their friend, writing, "We are devastated on the passing of our friend Dolores. She was an extraordinary talent and we feel very privileged to have been part of her life from 1989 when we started the Cranberries. The world has lost a true artist today. Noel, Mike and Ferdal."
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