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Huge Bollywood director Subhash Gai hospitalised in ICU for "routine check-ups and doing perfectly fine". From their word salads it may seem he suffers from prostate cancer, dementia and extensive heart disease, and has survived multiple strokes.

Sad about old César. Vaccine-related death if I ever saw one. There are now four centenarians heads of state/government: 1)Guillermo Rodriguez Lara: 102 next year, wheelchair bound and frail for years, recently widowed. 2) Khamtai Siphandone: 101 next year, massive stroke in 2017, wheelchair bound for years. Likely stuffed on life support in some ICU. 3)Tomiichi Murayama: 101 next year, failing health for a while, hospitalised for pneumonia some years ago. 4)Jimmy ... 5) Mahathir: continuous hospitalizations with severe heart disease. Turns 100 in July. 6) Mohamed Hasan Sharq: also 100 in July, doing very well. I'd say all but one or two gone by 2026. This year has been unexplicably lame towards them.

Wow!!! Fucking finally!!!!!

Can you read above? It seems he is not even in danger.

Saira Banu diagnosed with pneumonia and blood clots. Does not seem anything serious anyway.

Here' s a new deadpool in which people get points if their picks are hospitalised, and loose points if they die. A good way to celebrate the staying power of some people. RULES 1) Pick 10 people for your team (plus 1/2 subs). 2)Entries close on midnight of March 31 2024 and game starts on 00:01 of 1st April 2024. 3)Game last one year. Whoever has the highest score wins. SCORING 1)If your pick is hospitalised you get +10 points 2)For every ten days your pick spends in hospital you get +5 points 3)If your picks gets discharged you get +10 points 4)If your pick is in ICU you get +5 points 5)If your pick enters hospice care you get +20 points 5)If your pick dies in hospital you get -20 points 6)If your pick dies after being discharged or without having been in hospital you get -10 points PERENIALLY HOSPITALISED If your pick is perenially hospitalised (e.g. Zhang Lixiong, Shi Ping, Yang You) or a perennial hospice patient (ahem Jimmy) you get +10 points for every month they survive and -20 points if they die. These are the rules. If there are questions feel free to ask.

There were reports Lanata was not doing well due to thrombosis, but his family has issued (yet another) denial.

Hiroshi Kagawa dead at 99.

That's yer lot for this year. I thought there could be one more, but all of them are doing better than usual. This year has been a cosmic joke. Never had so many picks staggering on the brink of death and almost none of them oblige. Jimmy is Jimmy. DVD went from unsinkable to extremely frail in a minute. Laine is rotting. Chomsky was dead for a night. Woodward...is she even alive? Whale, Nolan have been dying for decades now. Hackman looked like he was taken from the coffin in March. Law has disappeared from the face of Earth. JMLP is still in hospital. Brokaw is wheelchair bound and decrepit. So is Tebbit. Eastwood and Scales buried their partners. Marcos got in ICU with pneumonia. Castro was rumoured dead for days. Makes no sense at all.

He is fucking overdue. This year has been incredibly bad in terms of elder state leaders deaths.

Israeli historian Eli Lancman (wiki) reportedly dead at 88.

Eminem's mother, Debbie Nelson, dead at 69.

If leukemia has turned acute he is done. The phrasing is very similar to what they said about Silvio Berlusconi three days before his death from the same ailment.

Wheelchair bound and on oxygen in latest pictures. Definitely a keep.

Nothing serious it seems. He is conscious and breathing on his own.

Worth the bump.

Nizoramo Zaripova dead at 101.

Wang Zhenyi joins the 100 club. Looks better than usual, guess he has 20 years left.

Josef Jelinek dead at 83. Amarildo quite in Immortal territory now.

Uninspired Jimmy Carter.

Silvia Pinal (1931-2024) "She is perfectly fine, not even hospitalised" (Family denial, level 1) "Ok, she was in hospital, but is much better now" (Family denial, level 2) "Ok, she is still in hospital, but out of ICU" (Family denial, level 3) "Ok, she is still in ICU, just needs a little supplementary oxygen" (Family denial, level 4) "Ok, she's dead, but one day even Jimmy Carter will die!!!" (Highest possible level of denial) Age at death: 93 Known health issues: Wheelchair bound for years, hospitalised in ICU with heart disease and COVID in December 2021, hospitalised in ICU wuth aspiration pneumonia in December 2022, hospitalised in ICU in December 2023, hospitalised in March 2024, hospitalised in ICU in November 2024. Cause of death: Dead? No, no, by now she has surely been discharged. Alignment: One of the greatest actresses of Mexican cinema and very beautiful in her prime. Melted into a wax statue in her later years. Also had a political stint as senator, and fought for civil rights in the 80s.

oops, too early.

There are many many more I guess. To cite a notable one, Ivanne Trebbi (wiki), born 1928 and also a deputy in the 80s.

Many outlets are referring to Silvia Pinal as "the last Diva from Mexican Golden Age". There's plenty left, just to cite some: Maria Victoria, Alma Rosa Aguirre, Tongolele, Elsa Aguirre, Alicia Caro, Rosa Carmina, Irma Dorantes. Most of them are frail, but Elsa Aguirre seems to be in excellent health.

Santanina Tillah Rasul dead at 94.