RadGuy

SWEEPSTAKES TIME! I'll go for... hmm... 1 April.

Looking at the list in your signature there are about 5 names that I do not recognise. Some US politicians do get UK obits but it wouldn't be guaranteed. But your personal list is just that and we would respect your right to post about anyone on it. I'm just asking out of curiosity - who didn't you recognize?

Well, I guess it's not that bad. Sure, if I were to make some DDP teams out of My Personal Deathlist 2015, about 10 people wouldn't get obits (e.g. George Ryan, the former Governor of Illinois). But that's not bad.

Oh come on! I wasn't asking for Kazakh or Ugandian obits, just English-language. There are many respectable US news websites (ABC, NBC, CBS) and I think their obits should qualify.

Another possibility, Marla Gibbs (b. 1931) who starred as the maid Florence on "The Jeffersons" (1975-1985). She doesn't have any known health problems, but she looks incredibly frail and also, The Jeffersons cast members don't tend to live very long.

"openly" is the key word.

You could add Charlotte Rae (family history of pancreatic cancer), Robert Guillaume (diabetic, past stroke), maybe Katherine Helmond (age). Abe Vigoda (Fish) has previously been mention round these parts. Oh, yes, I was thinking about Charlotte Rae. I'm already writing a list of potential candidates for my personal list in 2016, and she's on it.

I bet you get this question all the time, so sorry if I'll annoy you, but why are only UK obits valid for the DDP? Can't you change it to English-language, or at least UK and US?

Good news for me! I have him on my list.

BREAKING NEWS: Fidel Castro had a bizarre obsession with milk! https://medium.com/war-is-boring/fidel-castro-s-bizarre-obsession-with-milk-27ce5c258de2

Jack Ford, mayor of Toledo dead at 67. Coincidence-full, eh?

Fun Fact: In old Slavic tradition (the younger generations don't really continue this tradition), when people say their age, they say the age they will be turning in the current year. For example: If somebody turns 60 in September 2015, he will already say he is 60 in March 2015. So, if someone was born on 31 December 1929 and dies on 1 January 2010, people will say he was 81 at the time of his death, even though he just celebrated his 80th birthday!

I'll be amazed if she does actually, she is pretty much dead really but Von Anhalt will keep her 'alive' on her machines, he is already planning her 100th Birthday party in February 2017. WHAT is he doing? Double-Z probably had no idea that she just celebrated her 98th birthday, what's it gonna be like in 2017?

Danuta Szaflarska, an 100-year-old Polish actress, still commonly plays sassy grandmas (she is basically Poland's Betty White) has cancelled some public appearances due to health problems the last few weeks. I won't post any links, since they're all in Polish and none of you will understand.

Joan Rivers for sure. BTW that guest "Rad" was me.

If that deathteaser Gabor doesn't die this year:

Well, of course he should be up there. Mary Tyler Moore, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, Terry Pratchett, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mikhail Gorbachev, Stephen Hawking, Francis Cardinal George, Pope Benedict XVI too. They missed a lot of good candidates.

I don't mean to be rude to the family of Putin, but... DIE PUTIN! DIE YOU EVIL ******* DEMON! DIE NOW!!!!!!

Still not tagged as "dead" here on the forum.

Here's what the article says TV legend MARY TYLER MOORE spends her sad last days in the grip of dementia, her few lucid moments are spent deciding on her resting place – while being reminded of the tragic deaths of her loved ones! “With most of her affairs now in order, Mary is left with making the gut-wrenching and difficult decision of whether to be buried or cremated,” a family insider told The National ENQUIRER. But the source also revealed the heartbreak behind that decision, as the beloved star, 78, ponders being buried alongside her kid sister, who died of a drug overdose – or joining her only son and her younger brother in having her ashes scattered. Mary is wrestling with these decisions with husband Dr. Robert Levine as she lives out her remaining days at their $10 million estate in Greenwich, Conn. The dying star is considering cremation as a tribute to her son, Richie, who died of an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1980 when he was 24. “Mary says how wonderful it would be to be free as a bird, her ashes blowing in the same clear air where Richie’s were scattered” over the Owens River in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., the source revealed. Richie passed away just two years after Mary’s sister, Elizabeth Ann, died from a drug overdose. And Mary’s world was rocked again when her brother, John Hackett Moore, who worked as a prop man at MTM Studios, died from kidney cancer in 1991, with his body cremated. Meanwhile, Mary’s parents and sister are interred at San Fernando Mission Cemetery in California. “Right now, Mary’s leaning toward cremation,” said the friend. “The thought of her ashes intermingling with Richie’s lit up Mary’s face, spreading that famous smile from cheek to cheek.” Thanks. It's sad, really. I was a big fan of the MTM Show.

A new National Enquirer post about her. Again, can't read it cause I live in Yoorup.

Yeah, I noticed that too.

Exactly! Why is it so "taboo" to admit that someone is probably going to die soon?

I'm pretty sure she died months ago but Von Anhalt was too busy being an asshole to even realize it.

This is a tough one. I guess I'll go with Zsa Zsa Gabor, but if I could choose three people I'd add Billy Graham and Joao Havelange.