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Off topic but I climbed a 2200 foot mountain with my dad to celebrate his 90th birthday this week and I'm very proud of his health so I've posted it - there you go!

End of life variations are weird. Knew this guy who got terminal cancer, genuinely proper tough chap yet his immune system gave in and he died within a fortnight. My wife's grandad looked like a breeze would finishing off, super frail. Same illness, given weeks to live. Decided to enjoy the whisky and takeaways diet, and quietly waited for death but got on with his life... And lived seventeen years! And no one knows how. Other than sods law! He saw his great grandchildren born, and go to school, and eventually died during lockdown in his late eighties. Funny guy, I liked him. Would respond to any "how you doing" with a "well, you know, I'm still fucking dying"!

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Mark Knopfler is 74.

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No. The editor in question was a friend of the footballer and commented as such on the talk page.

12th August 46 Kim Wilde — Kids In America 46 Phil Collins — In The Air Tonight 37 Ultravox — Vienna 34 Diana Ross — Upside Down 34 Lipps Inc — Funkytown 32 Stevie Wonder — Masterblaster (Jammin') 28 Whispers — And The Beat Goes On 28 Randy Crawford — One Day I'll Fly Away 28 Hot Chocolate — No Doubt About It 26 Ennio Morricone - Chi Mai +4 24 Paul McCartney — Coming Up 24 Adam And The Ants — Ant Music 17 Stevie Wonder — Happy Birthday 17 Shakin' Stevens — You Drive Me Crazy 16 Altered Images — Happy Birthday -6 15 Adam And The Ants — Kings Of The Wild Frontier 14 Liquid Gold — Dance Yourself Dizzy 12 Leo Sayer — More Than I Can Say 12 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra — Hooked On Classics 9 Ottawan — D.I.S.C.O.

Absolutely it varies but when you are "very near the end" usually it means you are actively dying or are very near that point. I always remember a close friend of my Aunts who died at 61 from ovarian cancer.She was emaciated and you could see all her bones.I visited about 3 weeks before she died and the OT`s came round and walked her from her bed around the lounge.She barely managed it and looked like she had climbed a mountain after a few steps.What amazed me was that her tiny legs could allow her to stand even hunched over with a frame.She died 3 weeks later and never left the bed again alive.

What's conspicuous is the combi of cheery visits and lack of detail about his "recovery" - bed-ridden/feeding tube at this stage says he's dead pool gold for anyone who picked him this year. Those of us who've dropped him after a few years of less than sterling service stand corrected, or summat. I'll be amazed if he gives us a chance of late glory - doubtful he'll see Advent Avalanche action.

Grandson interviewed. (After your elimination, you gave a very moving speech about your grandfather, revealing to the group that he'd recently been put in hospice care. Have you been able to visit him since filming?) It's been harder and harder to see him. My mom spends a lot of her time with him. She spends almost half her time taking care of him at this point just because of things like COVID regulations. So it's really family oriented. I haven't been seeing him as much recently, but he knows that I love him and we're supporting him through this time. (How is he doing?) He's pretty sick. He still does use his brain. He listens to audiobooks. He's a genius. He's super smart. I love him. He always wants to be doing something with his mind, so he's trying to keep himself busy, but he is really sick and getting older. (It was also made public since the show that your grandmother, Rosalynn Carter, has been battling dementia. How is she doing?) I just want to say that she's an amazing woman. She's put in so much work in her life. She's done things for mental health. I want everyone to know how incredibly important and beautiful she is as a person and a grandma. Yeah, she does have dementia and when I see her, she does forget what's going on sometimes, but when she remembers it's amazing. I love her.

Telegraph obit for Michael de Burgh, aged 100, "the last surviving member of any antecedent regiment of the Royal Lancers who saw active service in the Second World War" (whatever that means).

...I'm not a native English speaker

Seliman Bandang, longevity claimant of Malaysia, in the hospital on a ventilator. He is not doing well.

Yeah, I'm watching ITV News as we speak and he's on about how this new treatment has given him a new lease on life and is likely to live a lot longer than he initially expected.

Yeah I don’t really think he’s in hospice in the sense we all think. Probably more of a case of letting things take their course, no matter how long it takes

From Ideas etc for 2024: Sixto Rodriguez, subject of the Searching For Sugar Man documentary, reportedly dead: https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/sixto-rodriguez-detroit-born-musician-and-subject-of-searching-for-sugar-man-documentary-dies-at-81 DDP pick.

As per it just sounds as if he could slip away in his sleep tomorrow or in six months time.

You have to be really sick to be put on hospice care in the first place.

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I think that's harsh on Gordon Brown and even Theresa May tbh. Fair enough on Cameron, Johnson and Truss though. I remember when I used to look at that 20 year period of Hayes/Garfield/Arthur/Cleveland/Harrison/McKinley for US Presidents and think its a real low when Chester A Arthur was your best President in 20 years. (OK, its not Garfield's fault he got shot almost instantly but it did sort of kill his list of achievements in office!) How little did I know of the future...

Oops:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/nicky-campbell-contacts-police-troll-30423039 Nicky Campbell has gone to the police to complain about trolls roping him into the allegations…….

Probably from drivers who hate cyclist Jeremy Vine!