Say one thing for the way associate justice Antonin Scalia passed on Saturday. He was on the road and having fun, joining a group of friends at a West Texas ranch for some bird hunting and socializing.
Scalia joins a list of notable names in leaving this world while diving headlong into life:
- Actor James Gandolfini was traveling through the ancestral homeland of his forbearers when he died in Rome at age 51 in 2013.
- Entertainer turned politician Sonny Bono was enjoying the mountains when he hit a tree at Heavenly Ski Resort and passed away at age 62 in 1998.
- Former baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti, father of actor Paul, died suddenly while vacationing in Martha's Vineyard in 1989 at age 51.
- Tech CEO Dave Goldberg, husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, died last year at age 47 while at a private vacation home near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
- Actor Oliver Reed (Oliver!, The Three Musketeers) died at age 61 in 1999 at a bar on the island of Malta, where he was in the middle of shooting the Oscar-winning film Gladiator.
