Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for June 21, 2016

Musical idols can’t last forever.

Oooh, spoilers. Poor Schroeder. His childhood is over.

Didn’t Schroeder knew Beethoven’s birthday? Nobody lives that long. Poor lad.

Dead? Schroeder didn’t even know he was sick!

Great musicians never die…they just decompose.

Mr. Schulz did an impressive job drawing the bust of Beethoven.

That’s kind of how I felt when I explained to my daughter that both Elvis AND John Lennon were dead.

I felt the same way when my dad told me Walt Disney was dead.

Proof again that, had he wanted to, Schulz could have drawn adults in his comic strip.

Roll over!

Beethoven is not dead, he lives on through his music.

I was never really affected by the death of a celebrity until I heard on the news of Jim Henson’s death.

I cried.

“Great Caesar’s bust is on the shelf, And I don’t feel so well myself.” (Arthur Guiterman)

Actually no composer is really ‘dead’ when his music is being played.

I rather had the opposite reaction. When I discovered Beethoven’s dates (1770–1827) at about ten years of age, I was astonished. “But… but… but… everybody says he lived a long time ago!” I had thought him to be roughly Renaissance-era.

Yep, Beethoven’s been dead since 1827; but try explaining that to a kid who knew Beethoven by heart, before he even began to learn of calendars and current times!