Rush Limbaugh passed away from advanced lung cancer on February 17th, 2021. His death was not too much of a surprise, as he had had lung cancer in some form for several years.
For all that he had been an important entertainer and political speaker for decades, a week after Limbaugh's death, his passing has sunk from public view. Personally, I don't feel the need to gloat, but it is also hard for me to feel much sympathy for someone who had built his life on mocking others, no matter how much plausible deniability he surrounded it with. Limbaugh's importance had also diminished: he built his career and image on being able to shock and offend others, and in that game, he was easily surpassed by others willing to up the ante.
Maybe there was a person behind the persona, maybe there is someone to feel sorry for, but Limbaugh turned himself into a media caricature, and by the time he died, the media caricature wasn't even interesting anymore.