Joey Russ

We all missed Cecelia Gaudette getting an obit mention. Goes to show that it's not always the people on the deathlist forums who find a mention for a pick.

I would love to meet Stan Lee. He's one of my major idols, but sadly I don't think I'll ever meet him. Besides him, Kirk Douglas would probably be interesting to talk to, so would Jake Lamotta and Hugh Hefner. Those are my top ones at least.

Well, Nabeel Qureshi have yet to gain an obit, so maybe it's not your month yet...

Welp, 10 of my people have already died. At this rate, they will all be gone by the time I go to college in about 2 years...

Wow, I heard he was a legend in wrestling. Kind of surprised he lasted as long as he did though. I'm guessing this is terrible news for wrestling fans...

Hm. Thinking an obit could be very plausible for Qureshi. He got an obit from The Washington Post, so he could very much get an obit from the UK. Washington Post is a qualifying obit for Windy City, no? Someone has him there. Let me check... EDIT: Nah, it wasn't. But I'm expecting the NYT to eliminate the obit worry in that dead pool...

Ah, that's right. Claimed to be in remission at some point but died about 2 months afterwards iirc.

No. I think there was a prominent Bush Jr cabinet member who stepped down and died the following year, no?

She's definitely a DDP cert for next year then. Didn't a former US cabinet member suffer from terminal cancer about ten years ago and was a hit for some teams but didn't make the deathlist that year?

I would agree with you had it not been the lack of a public appearance in the past 2 months. His documentary was shown at a major film festival in Canada, and Gord Downie did not make an appearance at that despite being in good health the last time we saw him in public. The fact that the only person we're receiving health updates from right now is his brother gives a red flag in my head that maybe he's not doing as well as we thought. He won't die anytime soon, but I wouldn't be surprised if he dies sometime in November or December.

Anyone think that it has been awfully quiet on so many of the picks front? Like, we know Liz Dawn, Lord Carrington, Olivia de Haviland, Stan Lee, and presumably Gord Downie are doing alright at the moment, but there are many others we haven't received news on for a long while yet. Though, it could be my tiredness for all I know...

I would honestly love to see him in the 2018 list, cause he's such a brilliant and funny director. Don't want to see him go soon obviously, but he could easily be a cult pick like Hugh Hefner and the Japanese Emperor...

I don't think he is doing that bad like his brother said. However, something that I noticed is that he hasn't made a public appearance for a while now. Indeed, he was absent from the guest list from a film festival that was showing his documentary. So maybe something bad happened in his fight against glioblastoma, and his brother was saying he's doing well at the moment. Or I could be rambling nonsense and he's completely fine at the moment...

I am tempted to try to do some team analysis to see which teams could potentially be a threat to the title, but given my track record, I don't think I will, especially if I receive backlash by some forum member on why am they not included. It's probably pointless anyways, cause deaths can happen at anytime. But if it doesn't seem pointless to someone, they can make one, if they want...

Didn't he die last year?

Yeah, I knew that was coming...

Actually had a feeling he was going to die today. But let's see if he gets that DDP obit. I'm still skeptical about that...

James Mattis is allowing transgendered people to serve in the military for now...

She has reportedly taken a turn for the worse.

I say that because I picked mostly cancer folk that could die soon, and not a lot of old folk. That's part of the reason why I'm lagging behind in this pool. The bonuses are the other reason, but I knew that was coming and not in my control...

Might as well forfeit. I believe I took this way too seriously, and because of that, I'm now in the bottom 8. Ah well, there's always next year...

Not to mention the death of major music legends such as Chuck Berry, Gregg Allman, and Glen Campbell, though none of them are surprising...

Don't you dare give Mugabe any ideas now...

Bloody hell. Two in one week. Your pretty good at this pool...