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Images from the funeral Hage Geingob, President of Namibia (82) Eeva Ahtisaari (87) Jakaya Kikwete, former President of Tanzania (73) Carl Gustaf XVI King of Sweden (77) Edit: Oh, and of course Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland (79) there too. Standing: Tellervo Koivisto (94, former first lady and widow of Mauno Koivisto) Ahtisaari's successor Halonen (not pictured) looked quite doddery there. I'm suprised Tellervo Koivisto attended as I recall she had a bad fall some years ago. Aceh rebel leader Malik Mahmud (84) was also there.

Count Hans-Gabriel Trolle-Wachtmeister dead at 100.

Never mind, Yury Solomin improving (still in ICU) and working remotely from the hospital.

Darleane C. Hoffman, US scientist and one of the discoverers of periodic element #106 Seaborgium, is 97. Mentioned here in the "Dead on Wikipedia" thread two years ago but still going strong and received the Enrico Fermi Award this year.

Grand Ayatollah Abbas "seriously ill in 2016" Mahfouzi's wife has died. Condolence messages sent by Ayatollahs Makarem Shirazi, Shubairi Zanjani, Khamenei etc, Mahfouzi looked fine at the funeral. 96-year-old Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati's second wife also died this week.

Zubeen Garg apparently hospitalised in ICU/MICU again following a fall, stable. Very prone to falls for someone who is 50 years old, seems like this is the third or fourth time this has happened. Soviet film and stage actress Raisa Maksimova, 94, reportedly hospitalised and suffers from a severe bone marrow condition that has required monthly blood transfusions(?) Some rumors going around that the Nikolay Drozdov is hospitalised for weakness due to cancer treatments.

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #8 Jayapataka Swami His Holiness Jayapataka Swami is the highest-ranking leader of controversial Hindu religious organization ISKCON. Born Gordon John Erdman II into an upper-class family in Milwaukee in 1949, he joined newly-founded ISKCON in the late 1960s around the same time George Harrison started funding the growing organization. Jayapataka, quite soon after joining, became one of the highest Swamis. The founding guru died in 1977, leaving Jayapataka and other still very young gurus to lead ISKCON. Some of them died, others were kicked out leading to Jayapataka becoming the "guru in charge" of ISKCON. In October 2008 he suffered a massive brain stem stroke, putting him into coma and "very critical" conditions for weeks or months. Since then his health has been quite bad, or as ISKCON says, "compromised": Already before his stroke he had cirrhosis (apparent complication from a blood transfusion in 1989 following an attack on a Madrid airport) finally leading to liver & kidney failure some years later. Skipping the waitlist he got new kidneys and a new liver in 2018 but as usual that didn't help much. He's been hospitalised a number of times since with heart problems, kidney problems, pneumonia, leg infections, covid, blood clots, skin cancer, UTIs, an "extended spectrum multi-resistant bacteria", pulmonary edema, ascites, skin lesions, trachea compression and other ailments, while he's survived his previous illnesses very well, this year he seems to have had more ailments than in the past ten combined. He's been in hospital twice within the last month and dedicated, educated ambulance chasers/corpse hounds know that pulmonary edema tends to return, and while he's a Swami, he's only half-Indian. He also looks like what I'd imagine the drowned ocean corpse version of Chef Tony would look like.

Deathrace Form Guide #7 Sigurður Hjartarson World-renowned educator, inventor, museum curator and phallus collector Sigurður Hjartarson (if you've ever watched "The Final Member", or you are or ever have been into for example those Ripley's Believe It or Not books or "Weird Facts" Facebook/YouTube/Instagram accounts, you might've heard the name before) is somewhere in his eighties and has been retired for around a decade now. I can't name any self-proclaimed phallologist who's made it to such a great old age, you might want to erect him on your Deathrace team...

Apparently, somehow, there's still atleast two Americans: Harry Moyer, 103 Mel McMullen, 98 And...these two are on a China tour: Harry Moyer seems incredibly sprightly for 103.

Antoni Martí, Prime Minister of Andorra 2011-2015 and 2015-2019, being reported dead at 60 from cardiorespiratory arrest. As head of the microstate he oversaw the introduction of the Euro. He also founded "Democrats for Andorra", the current ruling party.

Yury Solomin hospitalised in unconscious and serious state, likely following a massive stroke and fall. Solomin has been very ill for some years (heart surgeries, diabetes complications, appendicitis, gallbladder surgery, serious conditions in 2019 and rough covid in 2021) seems like this is his time.

Silvio Santos "not the same person anymore" according to daughter. I'm not sure if she's saying his memory is declining or he's physically very frail (or both)

Crowdsource Form Guide #4 Violeta Chamorro The former Nicaraguan President is now 94 years old and has long suffered from brain tumors, advanced dementia and has for the last year or two been in 24/7 care in a "delicate but stable" state. Might be a time for her to make a return on the Crowdsourced Deathlist (if the voters of the Deathlist forums so decide).

Bulgarian biathlete Krasimir Anev is reportedly in induced coma after shooting himself in the stomach.

Amartya Sen honored at an International Rescue Committee event this week.

Cavayé Yéguié Djibril, President of Cameroon's National Assembly, rumored to be in critical condition following a medical attack during an assembly session on Wednesday. Whatever the truth is, his health has been very bad for some time, frequent medical trips to France from atleast 2020 and they've failed to find a replacement. Niat Njifenji also had his millionth health-related visit to Europe (likely France as usual) last month but is back in action. He's been in failing health for atleast 5 years now and I recall he was in critical condition somewhere around four years ago atleast once. The deaths of these two might finally end Biya's Cameroon.

M. Russell Ballard (Russell Ballard for search purposes) the oldest quorum member and Acting President of the Quorum recently hospitalised for respiratory problems but already discharged. 95 years old and rumored to be in failing health for a while, allegedly with dementia and other ailments. Third most senior apostle following RMN and ultra-hardliner Dallin Oaks.

I went through these again as I stumbled upon a mostly unrelated article about Cuban leadership. Seems that (excluding Raul) there's 5 major old guard military/political leaders left, and a few smaller names: 1) José Ramón Machado Ventura (1930) Hardline communist who was pretty much Raul's second-in-command during Fidel's long illness. Looks ancient. 2) Osmany Cienfuegos (1931) Older brother of legendary revolutionary Camilo Cienfuegos who died in 1959. One of the revolutionary commanders who've held onto power for massive amounts of time, multiple time minister. He's slowly been retiring due to minor health issues since the 2000s but still as of 2019 was seen as one of those remaining who are more powerful than the current President (with Raul, Ventura, Menendez and Garcia Frias). Known also for his involvement in suffocating Castro opponents. 3) Ramiro Valdés Menéndez (1932) Major revolutionary commander, former interior minister (initial interior minister too), former vice PM. Probably the healthiest of the bunch. Survived a car crash this year but still around weekly making appearances and walking without any aid. 4) Guillermo García Frías (1928) Born before Che, one of the last revolutionary commanders, former head of the army and multiple-time minister. Still making appearances, owns a lot of companies in Cuba and apparently very rich. Smaller names: 5) Abelardo Colomé Ibarra (1939) Laid the foundations of State Security in 1959 as head of the Chief of the Intelligence Directorate of the Rebel Army at age 19. However his career didn't really peak until 1989 when he became Minister of the Interior until his retirement in 2015. 6) Julio Camacho Aguilera (1924) First Transport Minister of Castro's cuba, later a longtime Central Committee member. Oldest revolutionary commander living. 7) Teté Puebla (1940) Castro bodyguard, "legendary" guerrilla, head of the veterans affairs office, Hero of Cuba recipient and first woman to be a general officer in Cuba. Still recently a parliament member but has made less appearances since the pandemic started. 8) Leopoldo Cintra Frías (1941) Accompanied Fidel during the revolution, later led a large unit of Cuban tanks in Angola and Ethiopia. Minister of Defence from Julio Casas Regueiro's death in 2011 to his retirement due to health issues in 2021. 9) Álvaro López Miera (1943) Successor of Leopoldo Cintra Frías and current minister of the armed forces. Only 14 when he joined the 26th of July movement, might well end up the last living old guard member. He's still shaking hands with his Russian and Vietnamese counterparts and will definitely be the last revolutionary doing so. 10) Ramón Espinosa Martín (1939) Old Politburo member and Hero of Cuba recipient. His granddaughter is an escort in Miami. 11) Samuel Rodiles Planas (1935) Current housing minister and post-Revolution Chief of the Police force. Nearly all now "retired" but behind the curtains quite many of these people still hold a lot of power...Raul, RVM and JRMV were all well enough to appear and stand without aid at the Jose Marti birth anniversary in January. Delio Gómez Ochoa is also one of the last living "revolutionary commanders", 94 years old but unlike the others, as far as I know never really held any political positions. Edit: Here's an image from that January event. L-R Machado Ventura, Valdes Menendez and Raul Casto.

His Holiness Jayapataka Swami hospitalised again for pneumonia, mild trachea compression, bad kidney function, uncontrolled blood sugar and severe skin lesions, but of course not serious in any way. From facebook: This is his fifth or sixth hospitalisation in 2023, the last seven years he's had on average only one or two a year. It might not be serious this time but he's clearly now in the "circling the drain" phase.

Constantin Năstase dead at 108, only Shitu, Clayton Flowers and Renmei remain from those "notable people" born 1915. In other news Du Daozheng, legendary Chinese reformer and former head of National Press and Publication Administration and one of those who helped publish Zhao Ziyang's secret journal Prisoner of the State, is turning 100 today. Here's an image from September: Advanced Parkinson's, dementia, recurring infections and pneumonia for years, very severe C difficile infection complicated by other ailments that put him into coma for some time two years ago (apparently hospitalised since). I'd say there's some chance he could obit in Western press due to his connection to Zhao Ziyang.

Moon il-Seung, North Korean spy/soldier who was caught by South Korea during the Korean War dead at 97. He was one of the 46 NK spies/POWs who wanted to return to NK "left" in South Korea after the transfer of the "Unconverted long-term prisoners" in 2000. Interesting article about those 46. As of September 2022 there were 9, now there's only 6: ages 95, 94, 91, 90, 89 and 79.

Helmut Kritzinger retired from life on Sunday at 95.

US General Eric Smith, current commandant of the Marines, reportedly hospitalised after suffering a "medical emergency" yesterday. No further info given yet, but his duties have been taken over. Very old Vietnamese General (and former Vice President, predecessor of Vietnam war diplomat Nguyễn Thị Bình in the role) Nguyễn Quyết has been in hospital for some months this year with heart problems, not the first time... However he looks quite good here: I think he'll survive long enough to be a pick/hit for a few teams in next year's Centenarians DP.

Bedros Kirkorov was apparently ill last month following severe asthma attack but now of course doing better.

Walt Brown's wife Beverly Isbell (Brown) has a facebook account and while Walt's still alive he's had a few health troubles...apparently in 2006 he "fell from a huge tow truck cab", "broke his shoulder, arm, hips and pelvis" and "needed multiple surgeries" complicated by infections, c-diff and pneumonia bouts, in 2014 he had a "close call" and in 2021 he was on oxygen with god knows what. He's also been suffering from some type of cancer for years... However, would he get even local press mentions when he dies? I'm not quite familiar with these types of picks. Edit: Here's the guy in April 2021. He apparently recovered from that illness quite well and participated in some protests in 2022, but I can't find images anywhere. Reminds me of (immortals lister and Kuwaiti guy) Sheikh Salem, both were in critical conditions 16 years ago, both battling serious ailments since, both 97 years old and...both quite large in size earlier in life.