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Hello! First-time poster here. Should we consider the following? Charles Osgood (journalist) - 89 (1/8/33) Dan Rather (journalist) - 90 (10/31/31) Too soon for both? P.S. It pains me to name anyone from the original Star Trek series, but Nichelle Nichols has been declining since her bout with pancreatis in 2012. Won't waste my time with the other three living stars from the show since they all seems to be in good health - William Shatner (90), George Takei (84), and Walter Koenig (85).

The reason why your brushing off of Covid as nothing really sticks in the craw is that it’s frankly an insensitive insult to 150k families, and those with long Covid. When I had Covid in April 2020, I was 23. I’m a non-smoker with a BMI of around 24 and no pre-existing health conditions. It ravaged me. Too afraid to call for medical help, I got next day delivery on a temperature gun and oximeter. My temperature was up to 40.2C and my oxygen sats were at 81. I saw these worrying stats, and my laboured breathing, and concluded that I was going to die alone at home. Luckily I recovered but I was physically unable to work full time for 4 months after it. I’ve since been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, which was very likely a result of the attack the virus launched on my central nervous system, and will stay with me, causing chronic pain, fatigue and brain fogs, for the rest of my life. A friend I went to college with, gym fit and the same age as me, had Covid and died in July 2020. To my knowledge, at least 3 ex-colleagues have died of Covid. I’ve several friends who have lost a family member, multiple for a couple of them. And I’m not a rare case. Hundreds of thousands of people in this country alone have a similar story to tell. “Not deadly and a big con”? You’ve got a lot of fucking off to do, you insensitive fucking lunatic.

So with the second hit we are clearly ahead of the pack. If we are to break the record then we would be looking at a death every 17.4 days which means the third hit would need to come before 21 Feb to stay on track. 2020 was an unusual year in that the deaths were fairly evenly spread but most years form an s shape with a sharp cluster of deaths

Ernest Shonekan, interim head of state of Nigeria for under three months in 1993 has reportedly died at a hospital in Lagos. He was 85: https://thestreetjournal.org/former-nigerian-leader-ernest-shonekan-dies-at-85/ Seems like 1993 Nigerian presidential candidate Bashir Tofa died a week ago. Also here's a recent picture of Mengistu Haile Mariam, murderous asshole dictator of Ethiopia 1974/1977-1991 with around 1,200,000 victims:

Ehm... not so much, the role is largely ceremonial, but he seemed a nice person and will be missed.

Chatting with the person who helped resurrect me has brought back some good memories, but also drew my attention to this thread. Alphonsin and I communicated a few years back so probably safe to mark them as alive on the list.

(None) durst come near for fear of sudden death ~ Bill Shakespeare, King Henry VI part I

The committee is still discussing the potential FFBI cases, and making official rulings. It is somewhat of a secondary priority in our plans at this very moment, given we still have dozens of new picks overall to enter data for. As far as the potential FFBIs go, there's around.... 10 picks, being currently debated, most verdicts probably wait a few more days. Mora has been already shot down (he was picked by multiple teams among those posted in thread alone, btw), Sepulveda's case, well, we definitely will have to discuss it more. There are strong arguments on both sides (the case itself clearly is a legitimate news story, but it is also true that she herself hasn't really been an activist - I currently cannot tell, did she herself specifically pave the way for this change in Colombia's euthanasia law via court case, or was she rather an early beneficiary of a change that was done due to a case she herself wasn't part of?) that the committee is taking note of.

Bob Falkenburg reported to have died aged 95.

msc, when making his case to me for the fame level of one of his picks, the artist Antonio Russo, went along the lines of "although his most recent media coverage was of the dying dad sort, I will note that he has received international awards for his art and has worked with Kanye West, so I've taken a gamble that he should be okay." I then told him "anyone who works with Kanye is famous for being ill in the head... but seriously, yeah he's fine as a pick."

In the UK, pretty irrelevant. In order of where the story is listed on news apps here, it's 12th on the BBC News and the 18th on Sky News. I don't think it will even be on their main grid by tonight. I must confess, never heard of Sassoli. I stopped paying any attention to EU politics around 2017 when the UK formally left, and back then Martin Schulz was President of the Parliament, someone who I have met before.

I did wonder if their source was only the Facebook post. There seems to be little on record about his private life, so perhaps there's no close family to announce his death. Arguably RDT was better known in the UK as he had three Top 20 hits here, whereas in the US he's seen as a one-hit wonder. He deserves a proper UK obit.

You’ve written off Covid because it didn’t do damage to you, and paid no regard to the people who it did massively affect, the NHS staff who’ve worked themselves to oblivion trying to help the hundreds of thousands of desperately ill and dying people, and their families. Instead, you’ve seen a group of cunts who so clearly think they are above rules or consequences in any case, acting irresponsibly and dangerously and concluded that the way they act makes total sense and everyone should be doing it. Your words are a huge insult to everyone who doesn’t act/think like the wretched fucking Tories. I’m ignoring everything else you say from now on, before I say some things that get me kicked off this fucking site.

Deon Lendore, Trinidadian sprinter who won Bronze at the 2012 London Olympics in the 4x400m Relay, has died in a car crash aged 29. Obituaries: The Sun

All I'll add is: see this lingering death by a thousand cuts when everyone knows Boris's tenure is fucked but on it lingers on and on like a fart in a church? And how the exact same thing happened with Theresa May? It's really killing that old claim that the Tories are shit hot at getting rid of leaders ruthlessly when they need to. It's the seemingly random (to us non-medical experts) nature of it too. I've had friends far healthier than me catch covid and just die in days (and no, you don't just get over that in under 2 years), whereas others who were number 1 on the vulnerable list and caught it, leading to a shared "oh shit, no" among our friends have managed to recover from it. Those underlying conditions can be anything from cancer to undiagnosed mild asthma, which the person could have lived with for 30 odd more years.

Aye, though if the current situation gets worse I'm wondering if they'll ditch him ahead of those elections, blame the pasting they get on him and argue they're turning it round. Just listening to Radio 4 discussing the party on 20 May 2020, there's this bizarre situation in which the Health Secretary says we have to wait for the enquiry, as if Boris Johnson didn't know whether he was there or not. Laura Kuenssberg says; "This is a very very messy situation".

Ahmet Yilmaz Çalik, a defender who played for Genclerbirligi from 2011-17 before moving to Istanbul giants Galatasaray, where he made 36 appearances, has died in a car accident aged just 27. https://www.fanatik.com.tr/son-dakika-konyasporda-ahmet-calik-trafik-kazasinda-hayatini-kaybetti-2260464 He was playing for Konyaspor in the Super Lig, the Turkish top flight at the time of his death and also had eight caps and one goal for the Turkish national team.

Durst makes it 3 out of 20 for me

Welcome! Great first post. I agree. Nichelle seems like the natural choice as the next faller from the original Star Trek series.

If you still haven't found what you're looking for for Bob Falkenburg: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10388613/Bob-Falkenburg-tennis-star-gave-Brazil-fast-food-dies.html

It is the fastest 2 hits we had since 1987. The record was held by the 1993 list with second hit occurring on the 20th of January with the passing of my beloved Audrey Hepburn after Nureyev. Then comes the 94 list with 2 deaths by January 22nd, then 2000 and 2008 lists with 2 deaths by the 28 of January and finally 2013 with 2 hits by the 30th of January. 2013 holds the current record of the fastest 3rd hit ever, occurring on the 4th of February, which means 24 days from now. Maybe we’ll break this record ? I believe in the enema’s power (thanks to Gooseberry Crumble)

Here's a picture of some low hanging fruit I keep handy in case it's needed for Deathrace purposes, might serve you with regard to some of the more obscure right to die selections

I would have an issue with that tie-break rule, for 2 reasons. 1. It is a possible (albeit highly unlikely) scenario that in a slow year of only 1 or 2 hits, 2 people could coincidently have the same 1 or 2 hits in the same position, even though the remainder of their teams are very different. I don't see that it is fair in that situation to award it to the person who submitted first. If you are concerned about a cut-and-paste job (why would anyone bother?), then just chuck out any clearly plagiarised team. 2. As someone who lives his life by doing everything either at, or shortly after, the last minute, I have a moral objection to anything that favours the smug self-righteous judgmental early-bird pricks

Maria Ewing, American opera singer and actress, has died aged 71. Also the ex-wife of Sir Peter Hall. Obituary: Daily Mail, The Guardian, BBC

True, but we do allow for, let's say, socially signifcant cases. Right now, we have Vicky Phelan, the public face of a cancer scandal in Ireland. Last year, we allowed Noel Conway, a euthanasia "lobbyist". We mostly wanted to block the sob stories in the tabloids, "mum has her last christmas", "random person XYZ in a coma at New Year's Eve", and "reality TV star's dying step dad who isn't famous at all and would never get a single obit if it wasn't for that family member". Martha Sepulveda got a BBC (latin) obit as well, so I'd dare to call it a "good call" in terms of relevance. But I could very well imagine that she doesn't even get a qualifying english-language obit.