You can now subscribe to our newsletter to enjoy personalized deathpulse updates delivered to your inbox!
Looking to doomscroll? Check out all the death that came in 2025.
Shorty Rogers
American west coast jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, and arranger (1924-1994).
Born April 14th, 1924 in Berkshire County. [ref]
Died November 7th, 1994 at 70 years old in Van Nuys (cancer). [ref]
Occupations
actor, jazz musician, trumpeter
Wikipedia
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. Sogyal Rinpoche