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So sorry to hear of your loss predictor.This isn`t about Karma though my friend.I am sure you have never wished any of your picks to die who weren't murderers or paedophiles or other genuinely reprehensible people.You have nothing to be ashamed of.I used to work with the elderly and everyone informally made predictions about deaths.Just give yourself time to grieve for your loss before you start judging yourself.When those close to us die we always want to blame ourselves.Death is sadly a part of life.Predictions are not a wish list. Whatever happens though I wish you the best.

Is this because I liked the comment and not the original post? This is because to react to the original post would have been to condone the deaths. The follow up post mentions banning the race.

Thanks for running this again @Bibliogryphon. I love pools where you can submit a team and then forget about it for 2 years! Some great looking teams out there full of decrepit nonagenarians and centenarians, so the competition will be stiff. I think I will go high-brow this time and pick: Naked Gun 33 1/3 Shannen Doherty Lou Felder Ed Williams SUB: James Earl Jones

So sad to hear of your loss, I'll have you and your lovers in my thoughts. I really appreciate your participation in the forum as a member who make me to learn about those famous and important people from your country, thanks for all, you're a great person. I know life can get harder in this moment but I have faith that you can going through and become stronger after all, best wishes!!!

I think removing your team is possible but as it's not in my domain as co-host I'll leave that question to Reptile. My deepest condolences, I can't even imagine the utter hell you're going through right now. I've enjoyed your presence here, and while I understand regretting your deadpooling past at this moment, as time goes on I hope you don't kick yourself over it and remember our general sense of community and supporting one another in times of need, and that it's a morbid game but not a sociopathic one. Be well, and I hope you can find peace.

If this it predictor I want you to watch one of my favourite songs. Was incidentally my Grandads favourite song and was his final song before his coffin went to be cremated. What me and the rest of the family never realised is how long was the song was.So we went from crying our hearts out to laughing at the irony as it went on and on and we like to think he was sitting upstairs at laughing at us all while everyone checked their watch.I was so close to my Grandparents and did the eulogy for the 3 I grew up with.My father is very ill and I dread the day I have to do the eulogy . I hope one day you look at the good times and humour and likewise can find humour when it occurs in life naturally .

Predictor like many of the regulars on this forum I consider a friendly face. So if you do want to leave deadpooling please direct message me so we can keep in touch .

Credit to you Bib, you have an enviable amount of patience for that ignorant old tosser.

German TV, theatre and movie actor Uwe Bohm has died unexpectedly on April, 8th 2022 at the age of 60. Born Uwe Enkelmann in 1962, he was adopted by German actor and director Hark Bohm (one of our long-long-long list) in the 70s and took Bohm's name. He was a profilic actor on German television, especially known for villianous roles, and appeared alone in the series "Tatort" nine times. https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/uwe-bohm-schauspieler-unerwartet-gestorben-mit-60-jahren-a-f0ea4a8b-4183-4c35-902b-fc532a53d26e

Scottish painter and musician best known as the original bass guitarist of the English rock band the Beatles Stuart Sutcliffe died on this day 60 years ago, aged 21.

@John Key Jack Higgins is my fifth hit of the year.

This might get me in the Theme League top 10.

Looks like she wants to kill everyone in the room.

Dr. Bernard "Bernie" Fogel, dean of the University of Miami's medical school over a 14-year period, has died. He was 85. Fogel served in the role from 1981 to 1995. https://physician-news.umiamihealth.org/miller-school-remembers-dr-bernard-bernie-fogel-former-dean-and-pediatrician/

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/boxing/17896099/ron-stander-dead-heavyweight-joe-frazier/ @John Key Just realised that I had picked Ron Stander in this pool who died last month. A third hit for me. I was so sore I dropped him from my DDP team I forgot I selected him elsewhere. Thanks!

Perhaps they'll ban it on the same day they ban other money-making death-dealers like alcohol and tobacco, or frivolous, harmless pursuits like predicting which celebrity will die. Or summat. And just for Sir Creep, so he can get his rocks off in private without having to bore us to death with every equine fatality, here's a gift... https://www.horsedeathwatch.com/

Amélie(2001) Andrée Damant Rufus Claire Maurier

Jack Higgins The Daredevil 4+1 Book 9/50 theoldlady 7/50 wannamaker 6/50 jonnythegamemaster 5/50 TQR 5/50 John Key 5/50 The Daredevil 5/50 Main Deathlist 4/50 gcreptile 4/50 Nick 4/50 MariNisia 4/50 Etushispushingupdaisies 3/50 markb4 3/50 The Old Crem 3/50 Death Duke 3/50 Salmon Mousse 3/50 Hell 3/50 _floydylan_ 3/50 Gooseberry Crumble 3/50 Annami 2/50  Bibliogryphon 2/50 Pop_Zeus 2/50 six feet blunder 2/50 earl 1/50 dimreaper 1/50 arghton 1/50 Doulton 1/50 Miranda lass 1/50 Dying Probably 1/50 DieHardGiantsFan 0/50 Redrumours 0/50

Saint Jack (1979) Joss Ackland George Lazenby Lisa Lu

Apparently, according to imdb, Denning died last May in Oxnard, California. Not seen anything on a quick Google search to verify that though.

Sad news. He was better, and more fun, and more alive than Len Deighton. Probably even now, tbh. Writing a proper page turner thriller is really bloody difficult, and Higgins was a master at them.

THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT 7/50 6th April 2022 Yes, damn that Death Impends for getting to the headline first, but sod it... Popular Scottish rugby legend Tom Smith has died, aged 50, after a long and well documented battle with Stage IV cancer. Smith's professional career started in the 90s at Caledonia Reds and he experienced the league mergers that brought Glasgow Warriors into being. In 2001, he moved to the Northampton Saints, and was a pivotal part of the team which reached 3 Heineken Cup quarterfinals. (The Champions League, for rugby union.) However, it was as captain of the Scottish rugby team that Smith won his highest acclaim. A talismanic figure to fans and an inspirational one to teammates, he was the driving force behind Scotland winning the (then) Five Nations in 1999. He also led his country at two World Cups. In 1999, Smith's Scotland lost 30-18 to New Zealand in a battling performance in the Quarterfinals. In 2003, he was one of the few reliable names in a much weakened Scotland squad, not expected to last in the competition, but he dragged the team by sheer force of will, and scored the pivotal try that took Scotland into the Quarterfinals once more. There, hosts Australia proved a bridge too far and that was Tom Smith's final World Cup appearance. His ability was also noted internationally in that he became the first Scottish rugby player in history to be selected for six consecutive Lions tours. At this time, he was named by the world rugby authorities are being on the World first XV, the best players in the world. On retiring he worked as a coach for Lyon. A shy man who preferred to do his talking on the pitch, Tom Smith was diagnosed with cancer in 2019. He was inducted into the rugby hall of fame last year.

Let me educate you, Creepy. Remember the incurable fatal disease, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy? That you got a DDP hit with for singer Peter Sarstedt in 2017? When I thought you had gone a year early but you got the points and I didn't? Well, Linda Ronstadt has had the same illness for nearly a decade now. She's on borrowed time.

AFTER THE YEAR DOT 6/50 3rd April 2022 When she was a teenager, June Brown visited a palm reader. The fortune teller told a sceptical June that she would live to a grand old age, but suffer a personal tragedy when she turned 30. June Brown, who has died aged 95, was to prove that old woman correct on both counts. A Suffolk lass, she served in the Wrens during WW2 before training to become an actress at the Old Vic. Considered a talent from early on, she worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company throughout the 1950s, as well as appearing in the West End, touring Rebecca and The Lion in Winter. She was especially credited for her performances as Lady MacBeth. It was while acting on stage she met her husband John Garley. They married in 1950, but their marriage struggled with Garley’s depression, and he killed himself in 1957, when June was 30. Despite her best efforts to revive him, Brown would blame herself for her first husband’s death for the rest of her life. She married again, to actor Robert Arnold, and they had six children before she was widowed for the second time in 2003. She became a TV regular in the 1970s, appearing in the doomsday TV series Survivors, the cult soap Angels, and various Plays for Today. She was a semi-regular in The Duchess of Duke Street, and appeared in many of your favourite Britbox finds: Shades of Darkness, Crown Court and even a short turn in Coronation Street. (And in later life, Gormenghast!) In film, she appeared in Murder by Decree and Psychomania. And yes, she had her obligatory Doctor Who appearance, in the Jon Pertwee serial The Time Warrior. Her talents were openly admired, from Barry Letts to Harold Pinter. However, as she approached her 60s, June Brown found that there were fewer roles on TV for a woman of her age. In her own words, she need a miracle, and that miracle arrived in the form of an ex-con turned actor. Leslie Grantham had worked on stage with Brown and, when he asked if he knew anyone who could play a new short term role on Eastenders as Nasty Nick’s mum, he suggested Brown. She was offered a 3 month contract, with guaranteed money, and while she thought it’d be a short term respite, she said it would help her avoid bankruptcy. That short term role went on for the best part of 30 years. As Dot Cotton, June Brown became more famous and more well off than she’d managed through three decades of theatre acclaim. The character started off far more harsher than her public image nowadays: as the local busybody with a touch of the Bible bashing bigot to her, the original Dot Cotton was a horror. Her mellowing out into being the kindly old agony aunt of the Street became so iconic that going back to earlier episodes, when, for example she condemned Mark Fowler’s HIV status, are often cited as unexpectedly shocking to younger fans. The real life June Brown began to blend into the character more, though. Whilst Dot had started intolerant, June Brown was an out and out ally of her LGBT friends, going on marches to denounce Section 28 and demand better treatment for AIDS sufferers. After her early tragedy, she was unsurprisingly a big supporter of mental health charities, and paid for several peoples addiction therapy, including Pete Doherty of The Libertines! June Brown left Eastenders several times, but the siren call of Dot Cotton proved too irresistible to refuse. It was, as she said, the role that had changed her life for the better. She became popular with even younger fans with appearances alongside Lady Gaga on The Graham Norton Show. And despite increasing frailty in her 90s, she still managed to make the odd TV appearance. Usually as Dot Cotton. Chain smoking June Brown was one of the most popular actresses in the UK, among the industry and TV audiences. Her talents, which once far surpassed her acclaim, finally saw their proper credit in the second half of her life with a TV icon. Aged 80, she was tasked with being the first person on British TV to act out an episode of a soap solo, as a 30 minute monologue. Not only did June Brown smash it, she was nominated for the BAFTA for it. An acting genius (to quote Harold Pinter), who used her fame to help countless others at their lowest points, we are saddened to note the death of the wonderful June Brown, aged 95.

Just a small vid for the fans on seeing her when younger.