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Why have so many celebrities died this year?
Prince joins a long list of celebrities who've died so far this year - David Bowie, the actor Alan Rickman,the US singer Merle Haggard, the former drugs smuggler Howard Marks. And there are many more. Here in the UK the Daily Telegraph newspaper maintains a gallery of famous people who've died. By this time last year, the number of people in the gallery was 30. This year the number is already 75. And Guardian newspaper columnist Deborah Orr believes "that's how it's going to be from now on."
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