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Surprise Surprise I'm picking Joanne Woodward again!

You were saying.. ??!! You just can't take health for granted at such a grand old age. I wonder if any of the other names I listed as examples will also come true or the committee does surpass the record? Ethel or Jacques next possibly?

Given her dementia diagnosis I'm very surprised she was a unique pick but well done.

Looking forward to taking part

Yes events this year have created a lot of confusion in my mind about my strategy and approach next year! Which picks from this year would be disrespectful enough to die as soon as I drop them and which wouldn't!!? Quite the dilemma!

You've made some great suggestions especially Ryan O'Nealand Vanessa Redgrave but I disagree that all the other names you commented on are too american. Michael J Fox is synonymous with Back to the future which is an absolutely iconic film franchise and cultural phenomenon.

Not too long to wait to find out. !!

Or surpass it. Jimmy Carter, Nigel Starmer Smith, Cleo Laine, Jacques Delors, Norman Lear, Ethel Kennedy- just a number of the assorted routes via which this could happen.

One of the longest serving cast members of Britain's longest running broadcast serial drama ,103 year old actress June Spencer, also known as Peggy Archer/Woolley in Radio 4s The Archers . I think her age and her unique role and achievement in the above description makes June a very noteworthy candidate.

My friends and acquaintances in Birkenhead, based on what they know and hear locally, are very surprised that their ex mp Frank Field is still with us.

I'm bemusedly imagining right wing US Statesman Henry Kissinger, gay scouse actor Dean Sullivan, big New Labour figure and ex Chancellor Alistair Darling and no bs forthright hard living Irish music legend Shane MacGowan all gathered together on the VIP transportation cloud for famous people , to the afterlife having a natter as they make their way into the next realm..

Joanne Woodward. Because my my faith is resolute and also because I am rarely in life a herd animal so I wouldn't have voted for Jimmy Carter.

You are a genius! But seriously practically the phenomenon of two double deathlist hits, Joss Ackland, Rosalynn Carter and Henry Kissinger and Shane MacGowan in less than a fortnight is quite something and in terms of the enema is enormously and immensely busy to the point of basically living on or being chained to the DeathList toilet.

Oh I was treating it as a more general thread all things enema related but @TQR might be onto something about a new thread serving as a clean slate for an especially shitty year ahead!!

Well I wasn't wrong.. its been a busy week!! Plop plop!

Perhaps Joan will be the Olivia De Havilland of her generation of showbiz and outlive practically all of her peers/contemporaries as well as quite a few younger than her?

Whilst we shouldn't take people's health for granted , I think she stands an excellent chance of reaching 95 and I'd be surprised if she didn't.

Sometimes enemas can cause leaks prematurely. They don't adhere to a clean dividing line..!

Eileen Derbyshire Julie Goodyear-Didn't the statement about her dementia diagnosis indicate or hint she may have a more rapid decline and severe form of the illness? Robert Redford. Got a strong feeling in my gut about him as if something is brewing. The feeling is strong and increasing.

I still like to think I'm a good and positive influence on you....!!

What can I say.We live in strange times....

I sense that there will be at least 2 more deaths minimum on the official Deathlist. There are lots of likely candidates on there like Cleo Laine and Stanley Baxter who are hardly discussed but are likely to make news sooner than we think. I think the end of the year will be fruitful . Not neccesarily as late as New Year's Eve but Betty White style big. December will be a massive month in the DDP , with plenty of small, unpopular and unique picks taking the pool over its record death annual death total. So it will be more of a mix of the unusual or overlooked picks that help more than anything the last heave to break the record. My bowels say at least two more official hits this year at a minium. Lots of bangs ,in the last month or so of the year, indeed the year will end in a bang I sense and this will be quite fitting and apt as a build up to an utterly unique, busy, epic and legendary 2024. In future 2024 will be seen as a classic , brilliant, busy,phenomenonal year in deadpooling. It will be looked upon fondly and with reverence in the future. Lots of end of an era feel deaths in 2024 in both politics, showbusiness/ entertainment and acting especially. 2024 is not a year to be an elderly A Lister household name in movies and acting. I think @msc was very much right to highlight that years ending in 4 have often been very significant in famous deaths and deadpooling. My wisdom must have rubbed of on him!!

Keeping the faith, perhaps misguidedly, with Joanne Woodward.

But no Eileen Derbyshire despite her being good friends with Barbara offscreen. Definitely someone who deadpoolers should pay more attention to when compiling their 2024 teams.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12746843/Gina-Lollobrigidas-toyboy-jailed-embezzling-9million-fortune-Former-assistant-beautiful-woman-world-swindled-property-cash-cars-died-aged-95.html Gina's 'toyboy ' jailed for embezzling 9 million of her fortune.