I'm not really anything like Puck - I'm worse! - Mark Salling

Death Toll

Heroin (Cory Monteith - July 13th, 2013)

Suicide (Mark Salling - January 30th, 2018)

Drowning (Naya Rivera - July 8th, 2020 (presumed drowned) July 13th, 2020 her body was found)

Beginning to think there's a cUrSe on the cast of Glee.

this kid and how they're going to cope with real life once they are an adult and have to get an adult ~ Yemi Hikari (a member of the Critics United Forum)

"Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in." ~ Aristotle

"Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen." ~ Socrates

"A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something." ~ Plato

"The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought." ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Disappearance and death

On July 8, 2020, Rivera was declared a missing person after her four-year-old son, Josey, was found alone in Rivera's rented boat at Lake Piru, a man-made reservoir in the Los Padres National Forest in Ventura Country, California. The search for both Rivera and Josey had begun at 4:00 p.m. PDT, three hours after they left the dock, when their rental was over and they had not returned. Another boater discovered Josey alone, asleep on the boat with his life jacket on, around 5:00 p.m. The boat was in the Narrows, an area at the north of the lake that can be quite deep and windy. adult life jacket was found on board, along with Rivera's identification. Jose y told investigators that they were swimming. His mother had helped him climb back into the boat but she was unable to climb back onboard herself, and then she disappeared underwater. He also stated that his mother was not wearing a life jacket. Lake Piru is known locally for strong, unpredictable currents and whirlpools that have caused the deaths of swimmers in the past. Rivera's vehicle, a black Mercedes G-Wagen. was found in the parking lot.

The Ventura Country Sheriff's Office suspended the search and rescue operation that evening and resumed again the following day. The lake was closed to the public, with dive teams from across the region taking part in the search. On July 9, the sheriff's department confirmed to NBC that Rivera was presumed dead and that rescue efforts would now shift to recovery efforts: on the first day of the search, efforts had been made on land to determine if Rivera had made it out of the lake; a lack of evidence and Josey telling officers that he saw his mother disappear underwater led them to change the search to recovery. On July 10, the sheriff's office released closed-circuit television footage of Rivera and her son arriving in the parking lot and leaving the dock on the boat, and the number of divers involved was cut from around 100 to around 40. The sheriff's department explained that the visibility was so poor it was more probable Rivera would be found by using sonar devices. As well as dive teams and sonar, sniffer dogs were taken out on the lake.

On July 11 and 12, Rivera's parents, brother, ex-husband Ryan Dorsey and Glee co-star Heather Morris joined the search team at the lake. The sheriff's office dissuaded more civilians from joining the search because of dangerous terrain. They restated that they were searching on land as well as in the lake. On July 11, the sheriff's office had announced that other counties and a private contractor were assisting with the search.

On July 13, it was announced that a body had been found floating in Lake Piru by divers when the search resumed in the morning, at around 9:30 a.m.; the body was confirmed to be Rivera's at a press conference held later that day. She was officially declared dead on July 13.The Ventura County sheriff suggested that Rivera and Josey may have got caught in a rip current – these can be common in the area of lake they were in, especially during the afternoon – and struggled to get back to the boat, which was found unanchored and so may have drifted from where they entered the water. He concluded that she likely "mustered enough energy to save her son, but not enough to save herself", noting that Josey described being pushed back onto the boat by his mother. On Juy 14, the Ventura County medical examiner released an autopsy report stating that the cause of death was an accidental drowning, and that there was no evidence of injury or intoxication.

"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left." ~ Orson Welles

"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction." ~ John F. Kennedy

"A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again." ~ Ronald Reagan

"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"One person can make a difference, and everyone should try." ~ John F. Kennedy

For everyone whom can tell I've taken upon myself to go to war with the so called Critics United group on FFN ... those of you in the Harry Potter fandom knows all about it by now. Well now I have decided to create my own forum so anyone whom doesn't want to review my 'Dear Critics United' story with your own your story of your own personal history with them for the general public to read ... then feel free to come to the /forum/Down-with-the-Critics-United-Bullies/219697/

"We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity." ~ Malcolm X

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." ~ Malcolm X

"Less Artsy more fartsy." Homer Simpsons (The Mysterious Voyager of Homer - The Simpsons S8E8)

"You go through life, you try to be nice to people, you struggle to resist to punch 'em in the face, and for what?!" Moe Szyslak (Team Homer - The Simpsons S7E12)

"Isn't it nice that we hate the same things?" - Seymour Skinner (Principal Charming - The Simpsons S2E14)

"What do you think, Smithers?" "I think women and seamen don't mix." - Charles Montgomery Burnes Willard Smithers (Treehouse of Horrors III - The Simpsons S4E5)