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I've thought the same since I saw this video. The man in the video is around 30 now, but doesn't look extremely old.

Ratan Tata denies being in critical condition, says he's just in for checkups.

To be honest, Tin Oo is someone I would never have expected the Cmme to pick considering they never went for the Mindfulness Monk, Dilip Kumar or Vajpayee all of who were much larger names and were also in failing health for ages. I still have hope they'd pick Mahathir Mohamad, but that probably won't happen. James Earl Jones wasn't that much of a "big miss" to me. His thread hadn't had updates since 2022 and he still seemed in somewhat fine health back then on DL standards. Gena Rowlands' dementia wasn't publicly known until earlier this year. Most of the people who are being called "misses" just weren't (or weren't known to be) as ill as ninety percent of the people on the current list. Doherty on the other hand had been "dying" for 8 years, and many of us didn't believe it that much anymore. There are only two I'd call "big misses" - David Graham and Jonnie Irwin. My opinions: Drop Brooks/Whale, Bardot, Scales, Wagner, Greenspan, Redgrave, Fritzl, the Pope, Farrakhan, Morris, Gall, Bugner, Nolan, Routledge, Duvall, Castro, Walters, Barenboim, maybe Aldrin, Eastwood and Cheney if there are no more hits this year.

Now presumed killed say Sky News Arabia and Saudi sources. No official confirmation yet from either side, but he still hasn't been reached. There are also reports that Quds Force commander and Soleimani's successor Sardar Esmail Qaani has been "injured" in the same strike...That would be a pretty big death, too.

Well, here's something I didn't expect. Israel has apparently bombed a Russian air base in Syria: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/03/israeli-strike-suspected-near-russian-air-base-in-syria-whi/

Willie Ong, Filipino cardiologist, major media personality (known for giving "medical advice") with nearly 10 million subscribers on youtube is running for senate. He is also suffering from a ~16x13x12cm abdominal sarcoma that is partially blocking his aesophagus and is apparently near his heart and spine (and was critical with neutropenic sepsis last month) It was "terminal" last month, now his wife claims it's completely curable and he will be campaigning physically in December. Watch this space...

I mean, Luang Pho Yai was atleast (somehow) still able to sit up and eat a week before his death. If we think physical frailty/near-total inability to move + extreme emaciation Jimmy trumps him, as well as pretty much all of the near-corpses we've seen here. Except maybe one or two of those Asian cases - KH Ali Yafie looked a bit worse a day or two before his death: But he did end up dying in days. I still can't see Jimmy dying this week.

Israeli Generals are a tough bunch, usually. IDF/unspecified: Eli Zeira (1928) Major General. Disgraced director of Aman, Israel's military intelligence, during the Yom Kippur War. Allegedly leaked the identity of Ashraf Marwan, Mossad's most useful informant in Egypt, and assessed that Egypt and Syria would not attack Israel before the Yom Kippur War, despite receiving a telegram warning of imminent war. Amos Horev (1924) Major General, former Chief Scientist of the IDF. David Ivry (1934) Major General, former Deputy Chief of the IDF, Commander of the Israeli Air Force 1977-1982 and one of the commanders during the 1982 Lebanon War. Initial National Security Advisor 1999-2001, longtime Vice President of Boeing International and also served as Ambassador to the United States and Director of the Israeli National Security Council. Ori Orr (1939) Skilled IDF General and later Knesset Rep. for Labor Party. Removed from his political positions for remarks on Moroccan Jews. Obese. Avner Shalev (1939) Brigadier General more known for serving as Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate of The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority for nearly three decades. Amnon Reshef (1938) Major General, co-founder of Commanders for Israel's Security. Dov Tamari (1936) Brigadier General and initial Chief Intelligence Officer of the IDF. IAF: Dan Tolkowsky (1921) Major General, WWII RAF pilot. Relic, but doing well for his age. Yaakov Turner (1935-2024) Brigadier General, also served as the head of Israel's Police Force. Mayor of Beersheba 1998-2008 representing the Israeli Labor Party. Founded the Israeli Air Force Museum. Avihu Ben-Nun (1939) Commander of the Israeli Air Force between 1987 and 1992. Diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1995 and has been in very poor health for more than a decade. Israeli Navy: Ze'ev Almog (1935) Commander of the Israeli Navy 1979-1985. The other 1982 Lebanon War commander still living. Avraham Ben-Shoshan (1940) Almog's less notable successor, Commander of the Israeli Navy 1985-1989. Other: Nahum Admoni (1929) Director of Mossad 1982-1989. Efraim Halevy (1934) Director of Mossad 1998-2003. Described a hard-headed pragmatist. Haim Eshed (1933) Brigadier General of the Military Intelligence Directorate. Unrelated, but I wonder if Mohammad-Hossein Shaker is still alive. One of the first Iranian Army commanders post-revolution, he'd be around 96 now.

Ifigenia Martínez y Hernández was on oxygen at presidential inauguration, and recently spent three weeks in ICU. She has served as the President of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico since last month.

I believe this cunt has been discussed before. Definitely another fraud. This video is from two years ago: I'd say mid-80s. There doesn't seem to be that much of him on the internet and his local language Wikipedia page was only created after he received Ekushey Padak in 2020.

Emma is still very much alive and posed for a picture with Gyles Brandreth and Terry Pendry last month:

I doubt he is in much pain, or atleast he could be much worse if he wasn't in hospice. He does look dead here (a bit comparable to that censored image of Nguyễn Côn from a few years ago), but he has looked very frail for a while - atleast if he would be ashamed of his own frailty he'd have stopped making those rare public appearances years ago. Also quite likely that he has good days and bad days, most days are bad and this is one.

Merloni seems to have been Class of 2023. Down to 8 survivors now, right? Now we need the IDF to send a drone to Makarem Shirazi to make it 7.

My guess, he has greatly diminished mental capacity (able to grunt and groan, maybe) but NOT in a coma. Maybe connected to ventilator by tracheotomy. I personally think it'd be useless to transport him anywhere if he was in a complete coma, but if he'd be mostly mentally still there they could've used EyeWriter or another similar device to get him to communicate and write atleast a single statement on anything during these years.

Shagdarjav Magvan, Mongolian former International Olympic Committee member (1977-2007), crook (not uncommon there) and current Honorary Member has been in poor health for a few years, and looks quite bad in this image from a month ago: Might be a good pick in Hares and other pools with lower obituary requirements.

...He has done it. Yang Chen-Ning, 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics recipient is 102!

Jiřina Bohdalová discharged ahead of schedule. Apparently it was just yersiniosis.

There's the cultural difference of hospice being a thing in the West. You can already predict that Pratibha Patil, Wu Bangguo 1941-2024 et cetera will be coffinteases with a 50% chance, these people will get the Kaikala Satyanarayana treatment of having a tracheotomy tube connected to a ventilator at 85+ if needed. I can't imagine David Attenborough, DVD or Desmond Morris for example dying from anything else than "natural causes, surrounded by family" according to obits. Some of them are interesting, atleast slightly (Musuguri fought Idi Amin, Wang Huo suffered a brain bleed while saving a child once, Zhang Lixiong voted against executions of dissidents during Mao's purges, Ivan Krasko has argued that his son died from heart failure due to lack of sexual relationships) but there are a few only interesting from a medical perspective. No offence to him, I doubt there is a single interesting fact on Sonomyn Luvsangombo. Currently from Westerners I can name atleast 15 who I would consider potential immortals. 1) Antonia Fraser (92) How the hell is she still alive? She was in a last rites situation in December 2022. Fall, kidney failure, then months later a stroke + brain surgery and god knows what else. 2) Noam Chomsky (95) We all know. 3) Dennis Skinner (92) Advanced bladder cancer, getting shot, heart surgeries, broken hip and surgery, serious infection at 87, reported dementia. 4) Arnold Yarrow (104) Has been said to be in poor health for more than five years from what I recall hearing here. 5) Tim Pat Coogan (89) Very fat, eye cancer survivor, decrepit a few years ago. 6) Klaus Schwab (86) Heart attacks in the past, has been rumored near death god knows how many times in recent years. 7) Richard Wilson (88) Brain bleed, major heart attack and was fighting for his life in ICU in 2016, and has had health issues since. 8) Marianne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (104) Severe covid years ago that she barely survived, and has been bedbound for two or three years now atleast. 9) David Irving (85) Hospitalised for months last year and even according to his official twitter was in the last stage of his life with no expectation of recovery. Later rumored dead. Of course he's gotten atleast a bit better. 10) Geoffrey Boycott (83) Pneumonia, cancer, quadruple heart bypass at 78. He was gravely ill earlier this year. 11) Count Ingolf of Rosenberg (84) Lung cancer a few years ago, COPD for more than 15 years, heart problems, UTI, looks like he died two years ago but his brain never got the message. 12) Jan Malmsjö (92) osteoarthritis for decades, gastrointestinal perforation in 2004, two strokes in 2006, severe falls in 2013 and 2016, dementia etc. 13) Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin (100) Quite fat most of his life, in a motorized wheelchair. 14) Ruth Buzzi (88) Dementia for a decade, massive amounts of strokes, days to live years ago. 15) Abdullah the Butcher (83) ... And this is excluding tracy's US suggestions (here). There seems quite a lot of US immortals at the moment on drol's lists, but not a very good UK representation there - the only Brit I could find on the lists is a certain Cooke...

I think the other is popular 1950s actress Tian Hua, 96 in December. Wang Zhenyi was apparently too ill to attend, but was visited:

He was undergoing treatment for apparently intestinal cancer in 2016 and had a nasty fall in 2017, while in hospital another tumor was discovered (some articles said a recurrence). He was said to be in failing health in 2022 and has seemingly suffered from dementia for a few years. I can't see him making it as close to 100 as do Nascimento did, but he might outlive (second-oldest cardinal) Emmanuel Wamala who has been in failing health for even longer.

That was quick. Qaouk is "not confirmed dead yet" but IDF says he is, I believe in a few hours until there's proper confirmation. A lot happening now. Another commander Hassan Khalil Yassin has been killed, and Netanyahu did a speech saying "we still have a lot of work to do" or similar. Can't find it right now. Abdul-Malik al-Houthi of Yemen is threathening Netanyahu, Israel and shooting missiles into Israel, which might not be wise things to do right now.

Let's see if things will quiet down, but here's some kind of a list of possibilities if they don't: Major leaders: Naim Qassem, 71, Caretaker Secretary-General. Nasrallah's longtime second-in-command. Considered a possible successor, but Hashim is more likely. Hashim Safi Al Din: 60, head of Hezbollah's Executive Council. Considered a potential successor to Nasrallah, another hardliner and potential next target. Succeeded Nasrallah, killed days later. Mohammad Yazbek, 74: co-founder, religious head of Hezbollah. Close with Khamenei. Looks 90. Considered third-most likely successor after the two above. Ultra-hardliner cunt. Council of Jihad (around half of the members killed in recent months): Hashim Safi Al Din (mentioned earlier) Muhammad Haydar: 64, background leader who allegedly runs Hezbollah networks operating outside of Lebanon. Talal Hamiyah: 72, Senior commander, Chief of Staff of the External Security Organization. Major target for some time. Attempted assasination earlier this week. Financiers: Ali Youssef Charara: 56, major financier, Spectrum Investment Group Holding. Adham Hussain Tabaja: 53, Al-Inmaa Engineering and Contracting. Others: Nabil Qaouk: 60, Deputy member of the executive council of Hezbollah, cleric. Killed in airstrike. Muhammad Kawtharani: 77, 66 or 63, took over Qassem Soleimani's operations in Iraq after his death. Member of Hizballah’s Political Council Abu Ali Rida: Mentioned above... Haytham Ali Tabatabai: around 56. A ghost.

Rest in Peace. An icon in Downton Abbey. A New Era is one of the three movies I've gone to watch in the theaters these last years. Very sad and not a death I was expecting.

Quite impressive that there are still so many. Seems that the next two full classes (2022 and 2023) have much fewer, but many of them seem like extreme health miracles. It'll be interesting to see how many there'll be at the five-year mark if I'm still here to see it! One more suggestion to the list, Vatsala. Vatsala is an Indian elephant, allegedly around 105 years old, has suffered from intestinal failure for more than 5 years and was quite unwell and cared by doctors in 2021.

I would say...Jean Marsh (apparently very frail, past health history includes a stroke and a heart attack), Antonia Fraser (last rites almost two years ago, kidney failure and a plethora of ailments), Don King (unspecified illness that required blood transfusions, prior hospitalisations) atleast. I'd also put DVD at Drop #1, lifting him back when one of the 25 dies. Not sure who else, I might be forgetting many. I doubt Godley will make it. Shatner might be a good bet considering his recent "recovery" from stage IV melanoma, Beenhakker and/or Ditka for the "Return" section as both seem to be in quite poor health.