I figured I'd look it up on Google for the hell of it, but I can't seem to find anything actually saying he's dead other than a number of confused forum posts elsewhere. Do you have a link to an actual news story or official record of some sort to prove it, or is this just another moronic internet rumor/meme?
29 Jul, 2009, Ssolvarain wrote in the 10th comment:
Wikipedia seems to think he (Wilford Brimley) is still alive, for whatever that is worth to you… why do people think he's dead?
It is a common interbutt joke to post a "good night sweet prince" of a living celebrity on an imageboard. Occasionally the credulous out themselves elsewhere… which is the point of the joke.
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