Don't feel bad that I'm gone - by Shaun Usher

Jim Henson says goodbye

The world’s saddest photo, courtesy of Simon Jenkins Born in 1936, Jim Henson was a creative genius whose wide-reaching and positive influence on the population is rivalled by few in the world of entertainment, due to an incredible career that began in the 1950s when he created the now-adored Muppets. Henson passed away far too early, on 16th May 1990, aged just 53. Some time before, he wrote the following two letters, to be opened in the event of his death: the first was to his five children; the second to his “Friends & Family.” First of all, don’t feel bad that I’m gone. While I will…

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