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As announced in the Twisted DL 2022-2023, I'm glad to host the Twisted Deathlist for a second year. For those of you who haven't participated in the first edition, here is a quick recap of the rules Rules : Make a list of 20 names + 3 subs who could die between 15th of October 2023 and 15th of October 2024. The one winning is the one with the most points at the end of the year, thus the most hits as one hit = one point. Every time a pick of your list dies, the first sub on your list of 3 replace the dead pick in his/her position and enters the official list of 20. Then, you’ll have to choose another celeb to take the n°3 spot on your sub list. The subs left will move up from one spot putting them a step closer to the official list. If a sub dies before being on the list, then notify it and choose another celeb to enter at spot nº3. Each subs left behind will move one spot up. You can choose similar celebrities as other participants. The only criteria for their admission as hit is a qualifying obit when they pass : a qualifying obit means an article from a respectable source in any country or language. In this case, "respectable" is voluntarily unclear to let a wide range of choice in your picks. Facebook post, insta post, death certificate or others like that doesn't count as qualifying obit. You can choose whoever you want as long as they're famous enough (which means they have articles about their action available online, wikipedias article about them, acknowledgment in their field…) Entries are now opened. Teams will be uncovered on the 15th of October when the competition begins. I'll check regularly to see if any hits occurred (besides the obvious pick) but, as there have been many teams last year and I don't have the time to check them all everytime, I'd strongly appreciate it if, from times to times, you can check your own list on the first page in case a hit went under the radar. Every time you have a hit, you just have to choose another celeb. I'll make sure to make a recap every week (or so) of every death and everyone's points. Feel free to tell me if I forget about your hit in your point ranking or anything like that. You can send me your list by pm or just post it here. For those of you who participated last year and want to keep the same list, just tell me and I'll move the lists here. Hope everything is clear, Good Luck !

he brings my main DDP team to 4th position then

Here is a thread to share the last known pictures or videos of celebrities. This thread is to keep on growing as you can post last appearances of recent celebs for example. we all know this one, taken several days before williams’ suicide. another one that I’m emotional about is this one of Amy, 10 days or so before her overdosis. Didn’t look that bad tbh. here is James Dean the day he crashed his porsch. This is the car in this picture. and here is Whitney 2 days before her demise. As for Amy she didn’t look that bad but overdosis if, of course, impredictable. I tried to find the last known appearances of Judy Garland but sources were mixed so idk…

Agreed, altough he looks lost, feels like there is nothing behind his eyes which cool go with the previous health update of him being unable to speak a lot and losing his mind

Doesn’t look great at all

Since october 2023, we had 5 national tribute : Helene Carrere d’Encausse, Jacques Delors, Robert Badinter, Philippe de Gaule and Maryse Conde. I suspect a few others till the year ends

French singer Kendji Girac hospitalized after being shot last night. Only 27, one for the club ? Life-threatening When brought to hospital but apprently better now

Why a french deathlist you may ask ? Well, why not ? This site is filled with french-speaking, french enthusiasts and other french nerds who fight every year to see their favorite names included on the official list. And what a disappointment to see, year after year, that our wishes, like most of those expressed here, are not listened to by the committee (ie. Bernadette Chirac)… And as there is no such thing as an official French Deathlist site or forum (except this weird one), we began to loose hope of ever being adequately represented… Fear not ! The official French Deahtlist is coming soon ! The little community of french deathpoolers on this site have gathered in the last few months and after many talks, endless dithering and hasty reorganization (Cf. Gerard Collomb and Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie) we came up with a list of 50 french-speaking personalities (and not exclusively french per se) whom, we think, could die in 2024. This list was made possible thanks to the involvement of @BeretBleu @etib80, @Fantomasss, @La Tombe, @thadee and I. A special thanks to @Book whose help and example with the DACH list have greatly facilitated our task ! We will only post here in english and only on news about our 50 picks. Others news and talks about french personalities will take place in the French Speaking Deathlist thread. Every time a hit occurs, we will post it here, cross his or her name on the list on front page, and I'll make a quick recap on the deceased hit. We hope it'll be successful and that you'll enjoy it The official list will be unveiled on the eve of the 31st of december or on the morning of the 1st january. Till then… Bonne chance !

He tweeted an hour ago so I guess hoax ?

Agree. Still baffles me that She wasn’t pick yet by the committee. Is She dies without being on the list, I’d consider her a miss

Weird bur not unbelievable… will keep an eye on Twitter and facebook to see What comes off of it

probably better with this one

Out recently to several hockey match, looks good I think but a little aged

I would argue that Luise Rainer belongs with the formers that you mentionned : 2 oscars and one of the most prominent actress of the 30-40´s Hollywood movies. I doubt George Burns and Glynis Johns reache the level of the other 3 in terms of international notability though but I could be wrong and would glady accept it. other names that comes to mind at the moment are Lupita Tovar, Mary Carsisle, Micheline Presle, Gisèle Casadesus and Earl Cameron but I can’t tell how famous they’ve been outside of the deadpool zone

That’ll be me though

I don’t think he looks that great to be honest. Everyone seems to think he’ll be fine and he looks good but he does look frail. Nothing unusual at his age but that’s not because you’re still working that you can’t drop dead all of a sudden, which is I suspect, the way it’ll go for him

Simone Weber, "la Diabolique de Nancy" dead at 94. Surprisingly enough, this makes all the front cover right now (and a breaking news notification from Le Monde ) whereas I thought she might have died under the radar… Should have put her on my french list, didn't know she was famous enough. She was convicted of having cut up her husband with a concrete grinder but always refuted the allegations

Martial Solal is another one of them, don’t know if he’s famous enough outside of France but here he’s an A lister

Did someone really created a thread for a prime minister dead 18 years earlier ?

Also my impression. A lot of hanging fruits on the list who managed to survive that far but I can’t see Chomsky, Starmer Smith, Woodward, Newhart, Rantzen or Sonny Rollins surviving 2024. Let alone the great Carter. I don’t think it’s a bad list but if most of them survive the year, then 2025 will probably be a bloodbath

The heavy breathing of the person taking the video is sending me. Feels like he’s ready to attack

actually, he did ! Le Monde doesn't give breaking news about death that much so I guess they judge he was significant enough

Stafford last flight ! Thomas P. Stafford is a hit for gcreptile, maxbossetti, perhaps and Sean and a miss for CaptainChorizo and therewillbedeaths @gcreptile : Sven Goran Eriksson in and two others subs to choose since both Joe Flaherty and Fritz Wepper from your sub bench didn't last long enough max_bossetti : Juhani Palmi in @Perhaps : Frank Caprio in and Josip Manolic on the sub list @Sean : another Eriksson for the official list and Nelson Acosta waiting for his turn -------------------------------- Ettinger Extinguished ! Amy Ettinger surprisingly secured a Washington Post obit and is thus a solo pick for Captain Chorizo : Anders Vendel in, whoever that is. -------------------------------- Not everyone who makes it to 114 makes it to 115… Juan Vicente Perez Mora is a hit for buffalophil and CaptainChorizo @BuffaloPhil : Sven Goran Eriksson in and June Spencer as sub 3 @CaptainChorizo : Eriksson makes it onto the official list too, ans Caprio as sub 3 -------------------------------- End of the Lynn ! Lynn Reid-Banks is a hit for handrejka and yorkshireBanker @Handrejka : Roy Strong in and Le Pen père as new sub @YorkshireBanker : Dickie Bird in and Bob Packwood as sub 3 -------------------------------- Zhang Lixiong is not faking it this time ! Zhang Lixiong is a hit solo hit for @max_bossetti : Sven Goran Eriksson in again and two subs to choose please -------------------------------- Puckett kicks the bucket ! Ralph Puckett is a solo hit for @tracy: Steve McMichael and Sven Goran Eriksson as new sub @Famous6Eva : Fritz Wepper didn't make it to your official list so still one sub to choose please Sven Goran Eriksson seems to be the new favorite at this point… Let me know if I missed someone !

2nd of April 2024 Hit n°9 Condead Literary genius Maryse Condé has died two months after her 90th birthday to score yet another hit for our french deathlist. Condé was born in Guadeloupe in 1934, in a upper-class family which got her used to reading French classics from an early age. At 19, she moved to Paris where she started writing her first novels. In the late 1950's she traveled to Africa where she wrote her first published novel and moved back to the UK where she worked for a while for the BBC Africa. For the next decades, she focused on writing plays, before her rise to fame in 1984 with the novel Ségou. Since this critically acclaimed novel, Condé was seen as one of the main black writers on colonialism, slavery and black identity. Her other main works included I, Tituba : Black Witch of Salem and Windward Heights, in which she imagined the sequel of Emily Brontë's famous Wuthering Height taking place in the very early XXth century in Guadeloupe. In the second part of her prolific career, she ended up teaching history, literature and history of black movement in such prestigious university as Berkeley and Columbia. In 2018, she received the New Academy Prize in Literature, often referred as the Alternate Nobel Prize for Literature due to the cancellation of the attribution of the Literary Nobel Prize that year. In her final years, Condé suffered from ill-health and secured a spot in the middle of our list, being chosen in 25th position. She is the 9th hit of our productive french deathlist.