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Forgot to get my team in, so I'll be watching this one from the sidelines!

There's more than 4k Indian MLAs, plus they tend to be on the older side to begin with. Not surprising imo.

Wonder if the Sultan of Oman is DListy enough? If he his, he has to be on given he might cark it in the next 2 days, let alone next year

It's either that or - i hate to bring it up because of stereotyping - drugs. They're the only 2 options I can think of that would lead to the references re: the cause of her passing being as oblique as they are. it sucks, because I found her on YouTube accidentally a while back and really enjoyed her music. Didn't know of this happening, and you're right, for some reason this one feels especially sad.

Honestly might be an unpopular opinion, but hoping we get some under 50s names in the list in 2020. Adds a bit more fun to it v/s when it's basically ancient folks in their 70s+. Who those names would be couldn't tell you for the life of me, but that's why I'm not on the committee I guess. I'm sure there's a couple of someones out there who're both young and relevant, as well as being stricken with cancer/other life threatening illness, or are otherwise a bit of headcases where an overdose or such is a likelihood. Liam Gallagher anyone?

Won't be any more, but i'm keeping the 'vote for ol' Kirky boy till he carks it' streak going for the principle of things.

Hasn't hit Wikipedia yet, but there's another one gone over the last couple of days, upping the recent count to 4 players. He played 434 games in the NHL with 6 different teams - 5 of the Original 6 teams (apart from the Red Wings) and the expansion Minnesota North Stars. He was 89.

Apparently located at a point on the tongue that makes it very easily treatable (well, for cancer), so probably not a good idea to include him in any lists for next year.

Probably Carter or no more for the year, but i still hold out hope for Kirk.

As far as I'm concerned she's proof that's it's possible to live on nothing but spite and will-power. I want to be RBG when I grow up, living purely to spite half a country.

French actress and singer, Marie Laforêt has died aged 80. https://www.lefigaro.fr/musique/mort-de-la-chanteuse-marie-laforet-20191103

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Hall of Famer and former Maple Leafs GM Jim Gregory has died aged 83. NHL release: https://media.nhl.com/public/news/13561 News report: https://www.tsn.ca/hockey-hall-of-famer-former-toronto-maple-leafs-gm-jim-gregory-dead-at-83-1.1389715

I honestly continue to be surprised that given the ages of some of the big Congressional names, we don't see sitting Congresspeople die more often. Even with Cummings, he wasn't really that old compared to the 80+ brigade. Hell, the Conyers death could potentially have been a sitting member had he not had to resign over the allegations, which given his age, wouldn't have been surprising.

Still, it's always nice to get rid of any doubts, isn't it?

Should be noted that his comments re: the cancer should raise questions as to what stage the cancer is at and survivability odds given to him. "I want to live to tell the story" isn't exactly the most optimistic of comments, so he might be an interesting punt in a pool next year or in 2021. Not sure he'd make the QO for the DDP, but other pools that accept American sources should be a surefire obit.

Last tweet is from June, with a retweet in September. Given it wasn't him tweeting to begin with, rather someone doing it for him, he's either seriously ill with the condition being hidden, or physically relatively okay but mentally gone cuckoo.

Someone remind me to have a ticket out the country + plans for a month's vacation for when he dies. It's going to be a shitshow.

Look at the comment chain, news was broken by @MrWonderful who references a CNN piece, with @The Old Crem providing a QO. Not sure why I needed to provide another source of Cummings' death after that - the conversation had been happening for an hour plus before I got there.

Kirk? Please?

Cummings was House Oversight Chairman, so expect Trump to make a typical daft comment, and 8 million conspiracy theories to give you a headache. That aside, Cummings will be missed in the House, especially now with impeachment processes starting.

Republican Representative Louis Frey Jr. dead at 85. He was in the House of Reps from 1969-1979.

Former NHL winger Danny Grant dead at 74. He played for the Habs and the Kings for a bit each, and 6 years for the North Stars and 5 for the Wings. During the first of his seasons with Wings, he scored 50 goals. Obit in French, nothing in English available yet: https://www.tvasports.ca/2019/10/15/un-ancien-du-canadien-est-decede

I know balls all about the English prison system, but the Guardian piece on Huckle's death (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/14/paedophile-richard-huckle-found-dead-in-prison) notes that he isn't exactly the first criminal convicted of offences against kids to be murdered in that prison. Last murder wasn't a paedo but a garden variety child killer (Colin Hatch) it seems like (and that's a contradiction in itself isn't it?), and he was killed by a diagnosed psychopath who was imprisoned for life for armed robbery. Said psychopath also attempted to kill another guy (Ian Huntley), who was also a child murderer, and admitted it was because he had a "particular hatred against child killers," said crimes against kids "did his head in" and expressed regret that the second guy survived. Now, I'm not exactly mourning their deaths all around, just saying that it doesn't seem like that the prison you want to go to if you've committed crimes against kids. I assume it would be even worse given this wasn't just simple murder, but that the guy in question was a paedo. And had a taste for babies as opposed to, say, 15 year olds (both vile, but I suspect one would play better than the other in prison, and it weren't Huckle's tastes).

So, there's been a lot of focus on Korean/Japanese pop stars and the pressure they face. This is the 2nd? 3rd? K-pop 20s death this year. We need to start considering the 'big' bands (I know of BTS and Pink, and I'm sure there's a couple other well known ones) in the 27 Club conversation, IMO.