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You can't just back off out of it that easy! Or Jimmy Carter could just maybe die this year

I did see him on TV tonight and to be honest I think he'll see 2020 His health is definitely in decline but he's not at death's door just yet

I know, he could go this year and he's been left off the list He'd have been a damn sight better pick than Tina Turner

Great analysis msc, don't think anyone here could have put it better than that

Prince Philip, Vera Lynn, Robert Mugabe, Dick Van Dyke, Gorbachev, John McCririck, Little Richard, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan and Ginger Baker might all be interesting in their own right

Pretty much this There are loads of people that are really famous to the point of being a household name in the UK but pretty much unheard of elsewhere. Jeremy Kyle is a great example

John McCririck is the sort of person who really has zero importance beyond the British Isles, but ask any person in the UK if they know "that guy from the horse racing with the massive sideburns" and guaranteed a majority will recognise him He also feels like a very natural choice for the number 50 spot so surprised he hasn't been put in that position

I've been saying the same for a while now on here. They always prioritize the big names, even if they are less likely to die, over the somewhat less well known who are at death's door. Anyway! Happy new year everyone... So thoughts? Decent list, better than last year's, but not perfect by any means. Some great new names on there for sure, but some other very important names missed out! Dropping Pope Benedict and Leslie Philips was a poor decision. And some of the new names towards the bottom of the list are poor picks. Tina Turner is the worst pick on the list this year for me.

14-15 sounds about right

Javier Perez de Cuellar as always

Just looked up Alexandra Bastedo on Wikipedia She was seriously tidy in her day. Can't we, like, genetically recreate her or something? She's far more attractive than the people I had to look at in Sainsbury's this afternoon She'd probably have her own Instagram page and be headhunted by the producers of Love Island so we could all get to ogle her

Anyway, drove past HMV today. Sale on, not sure if that's just the norm or what at this time of year.

Yeah most of the 80s and 90s. I remember when the Spice Girls did the opening show for Channel Five as well! I bet you half the time on BBC it was just the staring girl and the creepy clown playing naughts and crosses during the day anyway wasn't it? When I was a kid that was on late night and early mornings, along with all that Teletext pages and stuff like that, but I don't remember a time when actual programmes weren't on during what would be considered normal daytime!

They were something of an anachronism in 2018 to be honest. People still buy CDs and DVDs - I know I do - but the need for bricks and mortar retailers selling those items is no longer there. It's just one more example of how the Internet has changed everything about the way that people live their lives. Looking forward to being able to tell young people in the future that I remember a time when there were only 4 TV channels, there was no Internet, no smartphones, and computers were so primitive that you had to load the games on tapes, disks and cartridges that made funny noises when you connected them!

Or Harvey Wankstain

Just over a year to go... Better start preparing your tastebuds, because that's an intense gustatory assault the likes of which the world has not seen before

He won't die until the 2030s

The first three or four of those are very, very Deathlistable names; the others less so

Another thing that the DeathList should do is change "50 celebrities" to "50 famous people" on the main page. I have a hard time trying to realistically imagine calling Javier Perez de Cuellar a celebrity

I understand that if Kirk Douglas lived to 111, he'd still be DeathList material. But the likes of Overton? What about Jeanne Calment? What about Alexander Imich, who was arguably notable, but hardly a household name? I seem to remember there was one other woman who'd reached the age of 114 or something who died a few years back and had done something famous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_Denmark DeathListable?

That sounds like supercentenarians should be allowed on the list on grounds of age alone because of the fame that that age brings with it. If that were true, then why not just replace the entire DeathList with this page? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_living_people Surely you would end up with more hits? IMHO a supercentenarian would have to have done something more than simply be old to get on the list. Was Jeanne Calment ever on the DeathList?

So is this guy DeathList material or not? If he makes it to 2019 he's going to be the joker on my own personal list, anyway, but... As I already posted in the Richard Overton thread, one of the main criteria for inclusion is that "Candidates cannot be famous solely for the fact they are likely to die in the near future". The question is, does Sree Sree (if I can call him that) have enough claim to fame independent from his age in order to justify inclusion?

Just a question. Would Richard Overton be ineligible for the DeathList simply because his main claim to fame consists of being "the oldest" at something? You could have a DeathList full of the world's oldest people - but then that wouldn't be much fun as it'd be too easy and pretty boring. Basically, does the line "Candidates cannot be famous solely for the fact they are likely to die in the near future" exclude all supercentenarians by default? Or are they eligible for the list if they have a valid claim to fame independent from their age?

There are so many good choices out there. Actually there are far more good choices than there ever will be room on the DeathList for them. So what it boils down to is the choice between the best picks (most likely to die) and most famous (but not quite as likely to die) and it's the second group that seem to take precedence on the DeathList. Everything I'm saying here I already said, but I still felt like saying it again!

Some of the main sports that are popular in the UK are football, rugby, cricket, golf, and tennis. Boxing and the Olympic sports also have some popularity. For a sportsperson from a sport like hockey, baseball, or American football to appear on a British DeathList, it would have to be someone fairly iconic or one of the top individuals in their field, due to the fact that a UK obituary is required in order to be a hit.