The Immortal

Clinton. He's had health issues dating back to the 2000's with heart surgeries and more recently several hospitalizations and I might add Clinton seems to have become a lot frailer in recent years. Biden is old, but asides from rumors there is nothing concrete about his health and overall he seems to be alright. Trump is a wildcard in the sense he could die from any means (ranging from sudden heart attack to assassination) but I think Clinton will go before him.

My joker Jean-Marie Le Pen decided to kick the bucket barely a week into the start of this pool.

Can't say I disagree with your choice, but shouldn't he be known as Maharaja Jayapataka Swami since he's Indian?

For the new picks I think that Hedren, Saint, John Williams, Goodyear and even Valli are solid choices. Good to see Brian Wilson return as well. Giorgio Armani is a surprising inclusion, he seems pretty healthy for his age and I would have much rather gone for say Luciano Benetton or Valentino if I really wanted a fashion businessman on the list. Same thing with Kim Novak where they could have easily chosen another actress of similar age in worse health. Bernie Ecclestone I also feel could have waited a year or two. Lovell is also a surprise considering we already have an astronaut on the DL. Flack, Brokaw, Tebbit and maybe Whale are risky drops. The others seem fine to me. Personally I think Jack Nicholson, Richard Wilson and Peter Yarrow could have made great additions for the DL. Alan Alda returning also wouldn't have been a bad idea. Either way hope to see a better result for the DL this time around considering the amount of 90+ picks on there.

Well uh, I'm not entirely sure how typing works from the afterlife. Still feels a bit strange with the phantom hands and all. Anyway that aside, I am pretty surprised to see myself as a winner. Props to my picks for staying alive, I guess (Buzz Aldrin in particular, damn did he decline fast).

Anna Mae Robertson is literally my only sub left since Mahathir has already replaced Harry Chandler and Jimmy Carter (3rd sub) died earlier. Talk about a nightmare of a start. If it's alright with you I have added two more subs just in case anyone else happens to have died in December.

I agree with Lafaucheuse's point here that the king/queen of immortals should preferably be someone genuinely famous and not some obscure Chinese/Indian politician that basically no one would know of outside of their countries. Having someone like Joanne Woodward instead of say Yang You as the immortal leader, it just makes sense you know.

Manmohan Singh is a late hit, forgot I even had him to be honest.

1. Ira "Ike" Schab 2. Ena Collymore-Woodstock 3. William R. Lucas 4. Song Ping 5. Kaiti Grey 6. Frank Guarini 7. Juan Ponce Enrile 8. Eugene Baltes Anna Mae Robertson 9. Marita Camacho Quiros 10. Maurice R. Greenberg 11. Harry Chandler (Pearl Harbor) Mahathir Mohamad 12. Donald Rose 13. Eva Marie Saint 14. Tomiichi Murayama 15. Charles Coste Subs Mahathir Mohamad IN USE Anna Mae Robertson IN USE Jimmy Carter DEAD Yang You Agnes Keleti

Alexander Mitta (joker) Esther Rantzen Stephen Darby Nigel Starmer-Smith Bernadette Chirac Noam Chomsky Gene Hackman Tippi Hedren Sophie Kinsella King Salman of Saudi Arabia Imelda Marcos Pope Francis Peter Yarrow Ike Schab (Pearl Harbor survivor) Liza Minnelli Leo Beenhakker Maurice R. Greenberg Lill Droniak Vanessa Redgrave Jose Mujica Empress Michiko Frankie Valli Jesse Jackson Cindy Birdsong Alan Alda Lisa Gastoni Randy Moss Jose Rodela Antonia Fraser Jack Nicholson Julie Goodyear Eva Marie Saint Simon Nicholls (HLAH bassist) Victoria Jackson Stuart Taylor (Chain Bear F1) Tony Hatch Emily Willis Paul King (Mungo Jerry) Try Sutrisno Frank Langella Linda Nolan Judy Loe Jean-Marie Le Pen William Pedersen Isabel Peron Amarildo (footballer) Harvey Weinstein Noel Gallagher Luciano Benetton Tom Lehrer Subs Tom Lehrer IN USE (replacing Johnnie Walker) Ruth Buzzi Leonard Lauder Bruce Crandall Tim Rice

Pretty sure someone on here shared some inside info they received that it's bladder cancer but not clear on the stage. If it's stage 3 bladder cancer I unfortunately have a pretty good idea in how it's likely going to play out (My grandfather died from it, it was a year and a half from diagnosis to death.)

He's in a better shape than Buzz Aldrin, which to me would have been impossible to believe even a year ago, but it definitely looks to be the case. Hell, I've seen recent photos of Mike Mullane and he looks thinner than Lovell here despite being almost 20 years younger.

Alan Alda Antonia Fraser Bernadette Chirac David Souter Edith Bruck Ena Collymore-Woodstock Frankie Valli Herman van Praag Lisa Gastoni Luciano Benetton Ira "Ike" Schab Jean-Marie Le Pen (joker) Jean Ragnotti Jesse Jackson John McVie Judy Loe Marilyn Maye Maurice R. Greenberg Neil Leifer (photographer) Norman Tebbit Paul King (Mungo Jerry) Pete Bellotte Ruth Buzzi Tony Hatch Victoria Jackson Subs Harry Chandler (Pearl Harbor Survivor) Pope Francis Julie Goodyear Vytautas Landsbergis Tim Rice

I'm not in the DDP and Death By Numbers is my main pool. Like usual I will vaguely hint 5 names I've put in with a description. 90 something British author mostly known for writing fiction. Old Italian businessman who recently stepped down from his company. Singer from a very well known 90's British rock band. An American centenarian who has quite the track record when it comes to surviving, and will continue to be personal repeat pick until he dies. Somewhat known American businessman who turns 100 in 2025.

Feels like the right time to give my 10 recommended picks ranging from well known to obscure for the DL and other dead pools. Empress Michiko - Has been in declining health for a number of years, most recently breaking her hip in a fall this October. She generally seems to be in a worse situation health wise compared to Akihito. Alan Alda - Parkinson's seems to have really taken a toll on him now, in recent videos he's shaking constantly and seems quite stricken in general, my gut says he is in or nearing the end-stage now. Judy Loe - Has stage 4 cancer and lost her husband last January. Artimus Pyle - This is a man who's survived a plane crash, a near fatal motorcycle crash and it seems a heart attack and prostate cancer very recently according to a podcast interview and it feels like we are due to lose a Lynyrd Skynyrd member soon anyway. Bruce Crandall - The current oldest living Medal of Honor Recipient. Seems to have declined a lot recently, was in a wheelchair and looked very thin at the annual convention compared to a year ago. His hands looked discolored too. Luciano Benetton - The oldest of the Benetton siblings at 89, stepped down as chairman from the Benetton group earlier this year and there doesn't seem to be any news of his whereabouts since. Try Sutrisno - Former Indonesian vice president who has been extremely frail for years and was rumored dead back in 2022. Tippi Hedren - Suffering from dementia which seems to be closer to the severe side. Ellen Rometsch - German former model, alleged JFK mistress and rumored Communist spy who has been living under the radar but is still alive at the age of 88, also recently lost her husband. Vince McMahon - Wildcard pick recommendation. Had spine surgery in 2023 and is now rarely been seen in public. In his few recent appearances he seems to be using a cane and looked frail. One to watch in the coming years.

And again, this time for severe pain after his flight to Hawaii, for which he stayed in a hospital overnight, nothing serious of course. In fact there's pictures of his arrival to Hawaii although he's the frailest I've seen him in the last four years (which is saying something, as he was already very frail to begin with).

Jose Mujica

Mrs. Immortal and I send our congratulations and best wishes to you, may your son lead a great, happy and prosperous life.

Probably nothing much, but Tim Schenken (a stalwart of Australian motorsports with successful careers both as a driver and as a motorsport official) will be stepping down from his role as clerk of the course for the Australian Grand Prix. He's 81 now and a few years ago he also stepped down from his role as race director for the Supercars series. Also I want to throw in a wildcard here in Matt Tifft. He retired from NASCAR a couple years ago due to an epilepsy diagnosis and recurring seizures. He's only recently returned to racing but get this, a few months ago he was kicked in the head by a rival pit crew member in an altercation. This kind of luck is probably not something one would want to carry (of course now that I've said that he'll be just fine until the age of 90, but anyway.)

A little too unfair on Paul, wasn't it? Anyway, King Jimmy's officially going for the EGOT after his Grammy nomination according to his grandson and will "definitely not die" until he wins.

Warren Upton's October article claims 18 living survivors, assuming the two who've died on 3 November were counted on that list it would mean 16 claimed left which seems like a realistic number to me. Hoping once we get to a low enough number (maybe 10-12) we'll get a proper documented list with names in the media, just like we had with The Few or the Merrill's Marauders.

Deathrace Form Guide #12 Allan Lichtman Also known as the "Nostradamus" of the U.S Presidential elections, he successfully predicted almost every U.S election since 1984 with the exception of 2000 and now, 2024. He's also getting humiliated online for his failure. Oh, and he's 77 so perhaps this failed prediction might just be his last one.

Dead. Seems like he was not as healthy as I assumed, one commenter saying he had health problems since before he retired apparently.

Ellen Rometsch (alleged mistress of John F. Kennedy and rumored spy) is still alive as of July 2024. I was just wondering the other day if she was still alive and decided to do some checking. After the whole spy fiasco she went back to Germany and remarried her ex-husband Rolf Rometsch and all that is known was that she lived in Bonn and a journalist tried to interview her in 2013 but she and her husband refused any kind of interview concerning her alleged affair or rumored double life. I couldn't find anything since then and seeing how privately she lives, I wasn't 100 percent sure if she was still alive. Well, I do so more digging and come to find out that Rolf Rometsch died this July. I don't know how reliable the obituary source is but it's based in Bonn where he and Ellen lived and the obituary does mention an Ellen and other relatives who survived him, so I am pretty confident in saying that it's the same Ellen Rometsch here and that as of July 2024, she is alive.

So I found out that Ira "Ike" Schab was hospitalized recently according to his fundraiser. The exact timespan hasn't been specified but considering the recent post on him being hospitalized was made on the 25th, and the update of him returning home is posted on the 29th, let's assume he was hospitalized from the 25th to the 28th.