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Goodbye, Gigi. Gigi Simoni dead at 81.

The Korean war is becoming and old affair and maybe deserves a thread. You know, Medal of Honor recipients, South Korean and Chinese military... A few suggestions are China's last flying ace Wang Hai (1926) and US last flying ace (I think) Charles G. Cleveland (1927), South Korea last general Paik Sun-yup (1920) and China's contingent commander Wan Haifeng (1920).

Echeverria dead. Yes, Alvaro Zuno Echeverria, son of former president Luis Echeverria, commited suicide at 71.

The loss of a good number of immortals this year prompts me to underline how a new generation of them is emerging. 1)Syed Ahmed Ali Shah Geelani (1929): suffered from heart failure and recurrent pneumonia for the last bunch of years. Reported dead or on the brik of death many times. 2)Lee Teng-hui (1923): Has been in hospital for months. He survived a severe cerebral hemorrhage last year and has suffered from a large number of ailments. 3)Thich Nhat Hanh (1926): Reported to be dying almost two years ago, he is still being wheeled out each day. Stroke survivor and also manages recurrent pneumonia with ease. 4)Sumner Redstone (1923): Has been a vegetable for years and reportedly bedridden and incredibly frail. Still he persists. 5)Stanley Ho (1921): Every day thousands of money are spent by his family to keep him alive at Hong Kong Sanatorium. Cerebral hemorrhage survivor and has suffered from multiple organ failure, which he survived gleefully. Reported to be "on the brink of death" in January. 6)Balbir Singh, Sr. (1923): Well, you all know him. He survived just everything. Every time we see him bouncing back we think "Is this fucking joke?", but it isn't. 7)Mikis Theodorakis (1925): A greek copycat of Dilip Kumar, fat, obese and suffering from heart failure. Always about to die, but never does. 8)Dilip Kumar (1922): Probably the last original immortal still alive. 9)Fauja Singh (1911): He is not the man he used to be. His health is slowly declining both physically and mentally wahtever his real age is. Does not look so invincible as he did. 10)Nobby Stiles (1942): Suffering from just everything for years and yet surviving a lot of teammamtes. Amazing. 11)Everton Weekes (1925): It has been in and out of hospital for him since that massive heart attack from June and could have spent months there. 12)Gigi Simoni (1939): Has been in a coma for over a year, and no sign his condition is deteriorating. 13)Monica Vitti aka Joanne Woodward (1931/1930): Been in the late stages of dementia for damn years. Still seem undestructible. 14)Leslie Phillips (1924): More a cadaver than a person.

Was too ill to appear at her birthday.

Two actresses from Beyond Forty in two days, as Michelle Rossignol dies at 80.

Balbir hemodynamically stable, which usually implies death is not imminent. MRI scans did not find major brain damage, but only a small clot in the brain. Still in a coma. Danger now comes from pneumonia, which got incredibily resistant to antibiotics.

Rumours that Seinfeld actress Liz Sheridan has died at 91 from COVID-19. Nothing confirmed yet.

Dork in life and dorker in death. Anyway there's that Spanish source, so Hutton is explaining Holocaust denial in heaven right now; if it is not true they better deny it. Till then he is dead as a dead dog.

Mikhail Shubin, Russian-American mathematician, dead at 75. Henrik Pontén, Swedish anti-piracy strongman, dead at 54.

Balbir stable and did not suffer any more cardiac event. Seems he is pulling through again.

Hutton Gibson way more famous than Shrikhande; IP who commented he is not dead just seems a regular dork.

For the "Where the fuck did I hear that name?" series, German photographer and Stuart Sutcliffe's partner Astrid Kirchhherr dead at 81.

Tun Tin is one for the List of the Lost.

Allama Khalid Mahmood, Pakistani Islamic scholar. Full of videos of funeral on YouTube, but not even an article on his demise.

It seems Ajit Jogi is taking the Jaswant Singh/Ariel Sharon route for long comas. His health is stable, but practically brain dead. Could last that way for years.

Journalists.

Bhabani Charan Pattanayak dead at 98.

Balbir Singh now stable and improving. Invincible.

Balbir suffers two more cardiac arrests, but his condition has not deteriorated according to his family.

Not the mighty Khamtai Siphandon, but his favourite henchman Sisavath Keobounphanh has died at 92.

Balbir suffered a series of cardiac events after his first cardiac arrest, but not enough to finish him off.

That's likely to be it. The man akready suffered from severe congestive heart failure and recurrent pneumonia, he was on ventilator for weeks last year but pulled a miracolous recovery. Then again hospitalized in June, suffers heart attack, but pulls through again. This fall he was hospitalized with severe pneumonia, reportedly in critical conditions, but once again he made it. And God, did he recover well! He even has a bunch of public appearances and could walk unaided. Now it is again pneumonia and multiple organ failure, which is extremely deadly for everyone, you imagine for an ill 96 year old. Then it seems he is improving once again, but his heart stops and for a bit (they have not evaluated brain damage still) so it is very hard even for a bouncer like him.

Balbir suffers cardiac arrest, but he has been resuscitated. Also suffering from multiple organ failure, but apparently improving

Considering how things are going, well, everyone who has "Singh" in his name.