Wilkerson
Young
Teixeira
Blalock
Dellucci
Mench
Durazo
Derosa
Laird

And to fill the character quota, here's some words from the world's cheeriest playwright Samuel Beckett:

"It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter."