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I vaguely remember an old post about him having been very frail and thought he had already died a year or two ago. Recuperating at home I assume means that he has some kind of a "home hospital" that he's cared in. On Charles Coste, I think his short appearance was a bit unflattering. He looks much more alive in other recent images.

Zeynep Korkmaz please.

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, Sinaloa cartel top leader and "arguably the biggest drug lord in the world" arrested in Texas.

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Berzerker (John Nord) battling knee infection that has spread into his bloodstream

Chalong Pakdeevijit, Thailand's "King of Action" has been hospitalised for nearly a year, but has now improved somewhat and can walk and go outside. Still, very old and very ill.

Francis, a 14-year-old "internet celeb cat" with dwarfism is apparently battling liver failure. Doesn't sound like he has many days left. Although 14 is a good age for a cat, I am a bit bummed. He and box cat Maru are the only still living internet animals I follow. Both remind me of my late cat.

My thoughts and opinions on a 2025 list: Keep (25) 1. Jimmy Carter (hospice) 2. Pete Murray (very frail) 3. Ethel Kennedy (very frail) 4. Cleo Laine (very frail) 5. Sonny Rollins (very old, terminally ill) 6. Imelda Marcos (diabetes, serious heart problems, ministrokes) 7. Ted Turner ("late stages" of lewy body dementia for a while now) 8. Roberta Flack (ALS, other ailments) 9. Esther Rantzen (terminal lung cancer) 10. Norman Tebbit (said to be very ailing) 11. Tom Brokaw (multiple myeloma) 12. Gene Hackman (frail, heart problems in the past) 13. Joanne Woodward (perennial dementia sufferer) 14. Stanley Baxter (no public appearances in years, care home, memory loss) 15. Nigel Starmer-Smith (dementia, bedbound for years) 16. Noam Chomsky (massive stroke) 17. Dennis Skinner (very ill for very long) 18. Hans Blix (TBE, housebound) 19. Jean-Marie Le Pen (heart failure, pulmonary oedema, stroke) 20. Willie Nelson (emphysema, other chronic health conditions) 21. Denis Law (mixed dementia for years) 22. Sly Stone (advanced COPD) 23. Clint Eastwood (increasingly frail, some health issues in the past, lost girlfriend recently) 24. Buzz Aldrin (former heavy drinker, a couple of health scares in the past) 25. Dick Cheney (enormous heart problems, see this - seems to have outlived all odds and the transplant won't last forever) Drop (21) going down from the worst drop 1. Tom Baker (weight loss, health issues) 2. Vanessa Redgrave (emphysema for a long time) 3. Brigitte Bardot (serious respiratory problems) 4. Daniel Barenboim (how ill is he?) 5. Prunella Scales (very, very slow dementia with this one) 6. Alan Greenspan (boring, but very old) 7. Dick Van Dyke (as above, but healthy too) 8. Robert Wagner (old, COPD, but doesn't seem ill enough yet) 9. Mel Brooks (very old but seems healthy and active) 10. Josef Fritzl (too stable for my liking) 11. James Whale (as above) 12. Pope Francis (recurring health problems, but has seemed better this year) 13. Louis Farrakhan (too stable for my liking) 14. Joe Bugner (severe dementia, but young and no reports of great decline) 15 / 16. Sandy Gall / Desmond Morris (seemingly healthy nonagenarians) 17. Linda Nolan (boring perennial drama queen) 18. Patricia Routledge (seemingly healthy nonagenarian and younger than most of the other healthy nonagenarians on the list) 19. Robert Duvall (yet another boringly healthy nonagenarian) 20. Raul Castro (looks, sounds amazing despite previous cancer rumors) 21. Julie Walters (past cancer) Return (4): 1. Yoko Ono (lewy body dementia for ages, other ailments) 2. Liza Minnelli (ailing for a very long time now) 3. David Attenborough (very old and should stay on the list until his death) 4. Douglas Hurd (very quiet for a long time) Add (21): 1. Michael Tilson Thomas (glioblastoma) 2. Mahathir Mohamad (enormous heart problems, very old) 3. Alain Delon (cancer) 4. Ruth Buzzi (dementia for ages, strokes) 5. Tippi Hedren (advanced dementia) 6. Sam Nujoma (tons of hospitalisations) 7. Kenneth Cope (perennial COPD sufferer) 8. Eva Marie Saint (very old) 9. June Spencer (as above) 10. Harald V of Norway (complicated health history, cancer and heart problems) 11. Sven-Göran Eriksson (pancan) 12. Sidney Cooke (how is he still alive?) 13. Tom Lehrer (frail forum favourite) 14. Geoffrey Boycott (cancer) 15. Gena Rowlands (advanced dementia) 16. Rupert Murdoch (tons of health problems) 17. King Salman of Saudi Arabia (dementia, tons of health problems) 18. David Irving (serious health problems) 19. David Graham (massive stroke, very old, very frail) 20. Jose Mujica (cancer and other health issues) 21. Alan Oppenheimer (seems very frail and pale)

Vietnamese Buddhist Zen leader, one of drol's immortals and pool pick Thích Thanh Từ is 100 today!

Jorge Lanata undergoes tracheotomy and the tracheotomy is connected to a ventilator, but he is "improving". Anshuman Gaekwad currently undergoing treatment for cancer at a London hospital. Major Chinese medical and political personality, one of the discoverers of SARS and leading advisor during COVID, Zhong Nanshan has been rumored seriously ill this and last week, but has denied the rumors and says he only suffers from gout and infections.

Jan Malmsjö in a "difficult state of health" according to this article. Sounds like he has dementia, but doesn't seem like he's urgently ill. He's treated both at home and at a care facility which means he must be well enough to be transported frequently.

Impossible. Impossible?

Dosmukhamed Kshibekov, a rejected Hares pick and "major propagandist of science" as the obituary says, has died at 99.

Not one of the last countries to become independent, but: Manuel Pinto da Costa, founding President of São Tomé and Príncipe (island country roughly the size of a fly's shit) is still alive, but still young for an African leader at 86.

Something new on former Afghan prime minister Mohammed Hasan Sharq. According to him, on paper his birthdate is the 17th of July 1924 (not 1925?) but he could be "a year or two older or younger". He is also releasing a new book. There also seems to be a new clip here at 20:02. I think he won't die off-radar.