Peter Fonda Knows What It's Like To Be Dead

Actor Peter Fonda has passed away of respjratory failure as a result of cancer. He was 79.

The son of Henry Fonda & younger brother of Jane Fonda, he began acting in films, TV and on Broadway in the early 1960's. The younger Fonda would carve out his own identity as a counterculture icon by starring and co-writing Easy Rider along with Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson. Although Fonda worked steadily he was unable to replicate the level of success for nearly 30 years until earning a Best Actor nomination for the 1997 film Ulee's Gold.

Fonda continued to work into the 2000s and 2010s with notable roles in the remake of 3:10 to Yuma and Ghost Rider. Like his older sister, Fonda was active in left-wing causes. His politics might very well have been even more radical than hers. Fonda considered President Obama "a fucking traitor" concerning the 2011 Deep Water Horizon spill in the Gulf Coast. Last year, Fonda made headlines when he wrote a series of incendiary tweets about President Trump's family particularly his youngest son Barron. Fonda was enraged at the Trump Administration's family separation policy at the border. His comments prompted a Secret Service investigation.

Fonda served as the inspiration for The Beatles' "She Said She Said". While tripping on LSD, Fonda recounted accidentally shooting himself when he was a child telling John Lennon, "I know what it's like to be dead." Now he truly does know. R.I.P.