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How did you hear the news? Also, how did you react?

#1 Benoit

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Posted 04 August 2003 - 02:05 AM

where did you hear about heather death. and what was your reaction. me, i was watching television on february 1 when they announced it. at first, i thought it was a joke to promote the 3rd poltergeist. but it wasn't a joke. i pray several day that it was not true. my birthday is february 9, and that year, i don't do anything for my birthday. heather will always be my hero.

we miss you heather

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Posted 04 August 2003 - 03:04 AM

Well, it was actually several days after her death when my dad came home from work and said he'd heard it on the radio. I didn't know what to think at first. After I got the People article, I was very depressed. No one I knew seemed to care, so that made me even sadder. I found it hard to talk about for a long time afterwards, because either people didn't know, or they didn't think I should care so much. :(

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Posted 04 August 2003 - 05:16 AM

Heather died at 2.46 PM on the first of February (Los Angeles time)which translates to 7.46 Eastern Australian time and add another hour for daylight saving brings it to 8.46 AM on 2 February. I bought the TV Guide the following day and found it in a small section on page 3.After reading that I was stunned.I went back to bed as I was feeling weak in the legs and I felt I would collapse.I spent the day in bed.I will NEVER forget that day

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Posted 04 August 2003 - 09:52 PM

i understand you. me, i couldn't even eat that day and the day after. i was feeling so sad. and i feel like this every february 1 since then.

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Posted 04 August 2003 - 10:43 PM

I fell like the odd one out on this topic. I guess since I was born after Heather died. I found out a couple years ago. I had just finished watching Poltergeist, and I thought the girl who played Carol Ann was so darn cute! I looked her up and found she was Heather O'Rourke. Well, I found all the info I could on her, and sadly, I found out she had passed away years ago. In some way, I felt as though I wasn't able to say good bye. Strange feeling, but true.

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Posted 05 August 2003 - 12:53 AM

i kelly. it must be tough to found out that heather was death the way you discovered it. but it was even more tough for me, because i was there and what a sad feeling it was.

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Posted 05 August 2003 - 01:55 AM

You were there? At the hospital with Heather,and her family? Cool! Are you friends with,or even know her family? For me,I heard it first from my father,who told us about it,a day,or two later,on February 2,or 3,1988,as he got it from one of the local newspapers.I also heard it on the news later that night,though a strange thing happened.Earlier that morning,I saw a commercial for "Poltergeist III",you know how they announce when a movie's coming out several months in advance, sometimes? Well,I think it was a commercial,because at the time I saw this,8AM,
that morning,of February 1,1988,Heather was still alive,and would live another 9,
or 10 hours,as she died at 2:43PM,PST,so it was,therefore 5:43PM,EST,since I live out here on the East Coast,so it couldn't have been a news report that Heather had died,or that she had to be taken the hospital,as that wasn't until 8,or 9AM,PST,and therefore 11AM,or so,here,when Heather was taken to the hospital,before she died.
At the time,I wasn't a real fan of hers,or the movie series,or even horror movies in general,probably since I was only 9 years old,at the time,but once I did become a fan of the series,and of Heather's,it was hard to come to the realization that she was dead,and had died before I could even become a fan of hers,so it pains me sometimes to know that,and it still is kind of hard 15 years later.

-Will,a huge Heather and "Poltergeist" fan!

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Posted 05 August 2003 - 01:58 AM

Oh,sorry,I must've misunderstood,when you said you were there,you meant as in you were already alive,at the time,as frodnew hadn't been born yet,while you,like me,were born before Heather died.Sorry if I misunderstood,and thought you were saying you were there,in person,sorry.

-Will

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Posted 05 August 2003 - 02:05 AM

it's ok. you don't have to sorry. yeah, i mean i was alive in 1988

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Posted 05 August 2003 - 02:12 AM

me, personnally, i've became a fan of heather when she star in the first poltergeist. i know it probably look strange, but she's always be my hero. even my friends and family think that i'm crazy to still care about us. that's not fair. it's great to see this site. it help the people to never forget heather, our little angel.

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Posted 10 August 2003 - 03:35 AM

I first heard the news of Heather's death in 1988 when I came home from work and my mother, who heard it on the news, asked me if I have heard of Heather O'Rourke. I said yes. Why do you ask? She died. I was shocked and my reaction was--She Died!. How!? She was just a little girl. My initial thoughts were that since I never heard about her being ill, I thought that maybe she was hit was by a car or in some other accident. But then I was told that it was an intestinal ailment. I was then shocked at how that could happen, how could the doctors let it happen. I was saddened of the loss. :(

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Posted 13 August 2003 - 07:18 PM

I'm from the UK. I was a newspaper delivery boy aged about 14 i think. I read it on the front page of The Sun as I was doing my rounds. It affected me quite a lot because I had a lot of repressed grief from losing my mother when I was very young, and i began to let that all out by obsessing about Heather O'Rourke's death. It was a rough time I can tell you. I kept a scrap book of photos and newspaper cuttings and cried a lot over it. I didn't understand why at the time. It didn't make sense as this was someone I never knew but yet I was miserable like I'd lost someone really close to me. Now I'm an adult though I can see that experience for what it was. I will never forget Heather for that. It's wierd seeing all these posts from people who were also affected by it.

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Post icon Posted 13 August 2003 - 08:21 PM

I was only five when she passed, so I don't remember the day it happened. I do remember being 6 or 7 and asking my mother about the Poltergeist III dedication, asking her, "What did she die of?"

"Some strange disease," she answered.

It didn't make any sense to me why she was dead in the first place; I had a very poor concept of what death was exactly and why even little girls could be sick and never know it. Sad. :(

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Posted 13 August 2003 - 08:26 PM

I think (and it's sort of hard to explain correctly) that most celebrities don't ever get to know how deeply they touch people. Sadly, no one ever seems to tell them these things until after they've passed away.

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Posted 13 August 2003 - 09:31 PM

you're right dmonigle. star doesn't even know how much we care for them. i'm sure that heather would be really surprised by all the fans she got.

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Posted 13 August 2003 - 09:44 PM

i movieman. i totally agree with you. of course, people doesn't seems to understand why we cry for her. people always say that we never meet her and that we don't know her. but i think that we know her more than those people. only the people who were heather fan understand the way we take the sad news back in 1988. she touch so many people.

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Posted 14 August 2003 - 02:41 PM

I thought I wrote about this,maybe in another thread,but I heard the news just a day,or two after it happened,as I remember the time well,since I had an accident with burning-hot mashed potatoes falling on one of my hands (the plate it was on,fell onto my lap,and I put my hand up,to shield my lap from the falling food,and that's where the scalding mash potatoes landed),and I ended up getting a second-degree burn,and scar,on my hand,which I still have,15 years later,being that scars that bad never go away,without plastic surgery,of course.Anyway,this happened the night before Heather died,so I always thought that was an eerie coincidence,to say the least.Well,I remember,a day,or two later,my father telling us the news,of Heather's passing,after reading about it,in one of the local papers.It didn't affect me until after I became a fan of hers,a year,or two later,in 1989,or 1990,and even then I was in denial,thinking I had just heard a rumor,or urban legend,that wasn't true,but apparently it was,and I eventually came to grips with this fact by 1995,or
so,but it's still hard,sometimes,to know that my all-time favorite child-actress is dead,and has been for 15 years now.

-Will

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Posted 15 August 2003 - 11:46 AM

I was 4 and a half when Heather died.. my b-day's in
July, and she died in Feb..., so ... I found out who
she was when I was 9 (1992 that is). I didn't know she
died 'til I eventually saw all of "Poltergeist 3", and
I asked my mom to read that part of the creadits for me
since it went by too fast for me to see it. So...that's
all I knew for awhile,...then one time when I was in the
car with Mom and one of her best friends', her friend
told me that her daughtor "used" to like Heather. She
told me that Heather died of kidney failure..., and for
whatever reason, I didn't believe it. Back then, I
was mostly annoyed about the whole thing because I
would try to talk to my mom about Heather and how cool
she was - and she would never want me to talk about her.
As if she didn't like her. But we finally got the
internet.... I guess when I was 13, and ....back then
the whole rumor was that she died of Chrones desease,
whatever, everyone knows that story. Anyways - ...
yeah I've been an admirer of Heather's work for...
eleven years now.