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  4. Posted

    The King seems to be quite disliked, I guess making the estranged son (who might've lived a somewhat normal life) his heir would be an attempt to save the monarchy? Prince Dipangkorn (the youngest son) is said to have an intellectual disability.

     

    There's going to be a lot of Thai royals dying the next few years. Half of them seem very ill...

    On 27/12/2022 at 18:33, arghton said:

    Queen Mother Sirikit - Debilitating severe stroke in 2012, hospitalised multiple times since with bladder, lung, etc infections. Likely suffering from dementia. Extremely frail for the last five years but currently impressively stable, miracle that she's still alive.

    King Rama X - US cables said he was suffering from HIV/Hepatitis C and blood cancer in 2009, in ICU with "respiratory problems" last year. I wouldn't be suprised if he dropped dead suddenly, people with such lifestyles usually don't see 75+.

    Princess Sirindhorn - (younger sister of Rama X) Ill with heart diseases since atleast 2019. Undergone a lot of treatment including in November.

    Princess Soamsawali - (first wife of Rama X, mother of Bajrakitiyabha) Two strokes in 2019, other ailments. Apparently wheelchairbound, paralyzed and quite frail.

    Princess Chulabhorn - (youngest sister of Rama X) Systemic lupus, pancreatitis in 2014, sometimes has inflammations/infections, stomach problems...

    Princess Bajrakitiyabha - (daughter of Rama X) currently gravely ill with heart problems.

    Chakriwat Vivacharawongse - (estranged third son of Rama X, not the estranged son mentioned above) neurofibromatosis.

    + Induratana Paribatra - ex-royal, centenarian. Not made appearances since around 2017 when she was already in quite frail health. 

    + Bandhu Savali Kitiyakara - (mother of Princess Soamsawali) Wheelchairbound and very frail for atleast ten years.

     

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  5. Posted

    Grandson interviewed.

     

    (After your elimination, you gave a very moving speech about your grandfather, revealing to the group that he'd recently been put in hospice care. Have you been able to visit him since filming?)

     

    It's been harder and harder to see him. My mom spends a lot of her time with him. She spends almost half her time taking care of him at this point just because of things like COVID regulations. So it's really family oriented. I haven't been seeing him as much recently, but he knows that I love him and we're supporting him through this time.

     

    (How is he doing?)

     

    He's pretty sick. He still does use his brain. He listens to audiobooks. He's a genius. He's super smart. I love him. He always wants to be doing something with his mind, so he's trying to keep himself busy, but he is really sick and getting older.

     

    (It was also made public since the show that your grandmother, Rosalynn Carter, has been battling dementia. How is she doing?)

     

    I just want to say that she's an amazing woman. She's put in so much work in her life. She's done things for mental health. I want everyone to know how incredibly important and beautiful she is as a person and a grandma. Yeah, she does have dementia and when I see her, she does forget what's going on sometimes, but when she remembers it's amazing. I love her.

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    On 17/11/2021 at 17:35, arghton said:

    Assembly of Experts member since 1983, longtime parliament member in Iran. First Ayatollah/Maraji to die since September, but there are quite many above 90:

     

    1. Grand Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani (20 Feb 1919-31 Jan 2022) Secretary of the Guardian Council 1980-1985, once issued a fatwa calling for the death of a rapper.

    2. Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Hossein Wahid Khorasani (1 Jan 1921-) "Most learned Shia authority alive" and critic of Khamenei. With Noori-Hamedani, the last Ayatollah/Maraji born in Qajar Persia/Qajar Iran/The Sublime State of Iran that stopped existing in 1925.

    3. Shamsodin Mujtahidi Najafi (17 April 1923-27 Feb 2022)

    4. Grand Ayatollah Hossein Noori-Hamedani (1925-) Hardliner and a total piece of shit.

    -. Sheikh Ayatollah Ali Tehrani (22 April 1926-19 October 2022) Theologian, critic of Khamenei's rule - but also his brother-in-law.

    5. Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad-Sadiq Husayni Rohani (16 July 1926-16 December 2022)

    -. Ayatollah Mohammad-Bagher Bagheri (1926-) Ancient assembly of experts member.

    -. Ayatollah Sheikh Ahmad Mohseni Garakani (1926-) Friday Prayer Imam of Tuyserkan since 1979.

    6. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati (23 Feb 1927-) Conservative, one of the top politicians in Iran. Chairman of the Assembly of Experts and Secretary of the Guardian Council.

    7. Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi (25 Feb 1927-) Holocaust denialist, member of the assembly of experts in 1979

    8. Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mousa Shubairi Zanjani (2 March 1928-)

    9. Grand Ayatollah Abbas Mahfouzi (1928-)

    10. Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Rahmati Sirjani (1928-)

    11. Ayatollah Seyed Ali Akbar Ghoreishi (1928-) Assembly of Experts member since 1983

    12. Grand Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani (8 April 1929-) Founder of Imam Sadiq Institute in Qom

    -. Ayatollah Sayyid Murtadha al-Musawi al-Qazwini (1 Aug 1930-) Iraqi Shia ayatollah. Assasination attempt in 2007.

    13. Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani (4 Aug 1930-) Called the "Leading spiritual leader of Iraqi Shia muslims" and the "electronic Grand Ayatollah", one of the rare liberal Ayatollahs.

    14. Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Is'haq al-Fayadh (1930-) Also a liberal Ayatollah. Born in Afghanistan. Seemingly barely survived covid in 2021 and was rumored dead.

    15. Muhammad Taqi Majlesi Isfahani (1930-) Seems like pretty much a nobody.

    16. Mohammed Emami-Kashani (3 Oct 1931-) Assembly of Experts member since 1983

    17. Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi-Kermani (1931-) Tehran's Ephemeral Friday Prayer Imam since 2012 succeeding Ali Khamenei. Looks ancient and says that messaging service Telegram is haram.

    -. Ayatollah Sheikh Ali Akbar Masoudi Khomeini (1931-)

    Ayatollah Muhammad Taqi Majlesi Isfahani (the by far least notable person on that list with Mujtahidi Najafi) apparently died in May at around 92. Not to be confused with Ayatollah Hossein Mazaheri Isfahani, born 1933, who was a DDP pick in 2021. Leaves three ayatollahs born in 1930 - al-Qazwini has been in ill health for a while, al-Sistani (most notable Shia leader living) has been suffering from severe heart problems for atleast two decades and al-Fayadh was dying in 2021.

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  9. Posted

    Malaysian "celebrity superstar" (and chef) Chef Wan (65) diagnosed with lymphoma, but apparently discovered early.

    Quote from the article: “My doctor said that I will start to lose my hair (omg i can start already imagining myself in different fabulous wigs after this treatment, Elvis, M. Daud Kilau style, Samy Velu, Liberace and many more! It will be so funny).”

  10. Posted

    On 06/08/2023 at 21:37, drol said:

    All the Russian names arghton mentioned in recent months being critical.... all alive and out of hospital!

    Here's a "recap" who there has been in addition to Krasko since December:

     

    1. Bedros Kirkorov (1932) History of heart problems, a-fib, in ICU with congestive heart failure in April 2022, hospitalised with massive heart problems and in ICU in November 2022 and underwent emergency heart surgery and pacemaker implantation, again in ICU with pneumothorax and pneumonia combination in December 2022 that he was not expected to survive, hospitalised in January with pneumonia and complications of angina pectoris, heart failure and CAD. Again in hospital in July.

    2. Nikolay Drozdov (1937) Recently he's been hospitalised atleast two times after breaking multiple of his ribs and last month he was very ill and in ICU with an intestinal infection, kidney cysts and everything else. He of course survived and was discharged more than a week ahead of schedule.

    3. Leonid Roshal (1933) Suffers from parkinson's and brain tumors, hospitalised in ICU in critical condition in February after a severe fall, apparently recovered in a few weeks.

    4. Alexander Mitta (1933) Serious covid in March, in ICU, serious condition after suffering a severe stroke in July.

    5. Gleb Panfilov (1934-2023) Widowed in January, fighting for his life after suffering a major stroke (+ pneumonia) in May. Spent more than a month in ICU and still hasn't been discharged, but was already "in good health" in July.

    6. Larisa Latynina (1934) Hospitalised in January with a heart attack as a complication from a stroke. Of course it apparently wasn't enough.

    7. Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina (1938) Very ill for the last ten years with heart failure, "acute heart attack" in 2019, hospitalised in unstable condition, ICU in June after suffering a stroke and discharged a month later.

    8. Igor Yasulovich (1941-2023) In coma, ventilator, ICU with acute kidney failure and hydronephrosis in July, "recovering" in August.

    9. Nikolai Trubin (1931) Last Soviet Procurator General. Obese and falsely said to have died in 1996, hospitalised last month with massive heart problems, probably discharged by now.

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  11. Posted

    On 04/08/2023 at 19:44, arghton said:

    To me the "top" immortals living currently on the list (in addition to Carter, Bhuddhadeb, Chamorro and Woodward) are...barker Etc etc

    Saalumarada Thimmakka who's suffered from COPD for over 12 years, broken hip and other health complications and was in hospital nearly every year between 2012 and 2021, ...

    Saalumarada Thimmakka hospitalised after falling in the bathroom, but "only suffered a mild bone injury" and recovering (what else did you expect, she's only around 95!)

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  12. Posted

    On 01/06/2022 at 20:40, arghton said:

    From the royals thread

    . Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani (1929) Qatari royal/politician.

     

    Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani, Qatari royal, politician (former Minister of Education and Culture), MBHHC chairman and ambassador dead at 93/94. Apparently both the uncle and father-in-law of previos emir Hamad bin Khalifa. Leaves Sheikh Salem Al-Ali of Kuwait the last (or last notable) royal of the Arabian Peninsula born in the 1920s.

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  13. Posted

    16 minutes ago, openviews said:

    Paedophile former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins 'is critically ill after being stabbed in the neck in prison': Pervert serving 35 years for abusing babies 'was taken hostage and attacked by fellow inmates before being rushed to hospital'
     

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12376885/Disgraced-paedophile-Lostprophets-frontman-Ian-Watkins-stabbed-neck-inmates-vicious-jail-attack-rushed-hospital.html

    Crossposting

  14. Posted

    Updated list since last post (Dec 2019). This seems quite forgotten, there's a bit more people living than with the 1920 pool, but this probably won't last much longer.

     

    Deaths

    theoldlady - Hugh Downs :rip: 1 July 2020

    The Mad Hatter - Jackie Stallone :rip: 21 Sept 2020

    gcreptile - Jack Steinberger :rip: 12 Dec 2020

    Sean - Prince Philip :rip: 9 Apr 2021

    drol - Mustafa Ben Halim :rip: 7 Dec 2021

    Torva Messor - Walter Mirisch :rip: 24 Feb 2023

    Drewsky1211 - Bill Butler :rip: 5 Apr 2023

    Spade_Cooley - Al Jaffee :rip: 10 Apr 2023

    Death Impends - Francoise Gilot :rip: 6 June 2023

    The Dead Cow - Hans Albert :rip: 24 Oct 2023

    Book - Iris Apfel :rip: 1 Mar 2024

    Newjack - Philippe de Gaulle :rip: 12 Mar 2024

     

    The living

    Bibliogryphon - Elizabeth Kelly

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  15. Posted

    On 15/10/2021 at 19:34, arghton said:

    Going through people interviewed in the "Sata tarinaa sodasta" ("One hundred stories about war") Ilta-Sanomat interviews in 2017. These 100 Finnish war veterans/people who experienced the war were interviewed, interesting to see how many are still alive:

     

    Part 5:

      Reveal hidden contents

    81. Jouko Eräkorpi (1921-) Senior lieutenant, war invalid

    82. Ritva Tuulos (1924-2020) Lotta Svärd member, radist

    83. Juhani Eskola (1922-2020) Lieutenant, pilot

    84. Elisabeth Rehn (1935-) Lotta Svärd member, Undersecretary General of the United Nations 1995-1999 and Minister of Defence 1990-1995, youngest person interviewed

    85. Viljo Lehtinen (1923-) Vääpeli/first sergeant

    86. Jouko Korhonen (1921-) Senior lieutenant

    87. Tuomas Gerdt (1923-2020) Captain, last living recipient of the Mannerheim Cross

    88. Mauri Maunula (1921-) Captain, still active

    89. Salomon Altschuler (1913-2019) Corporal

    90. Saara Kanerva (1912-2019) Lotta Svärd (war censor), oldest person interviewed

    91. Lauri Puonti (1924-) "Dieselmatruusi" seaman

    92. Pauli Salonius (1919-2017) Ylimatruusi/lance corporal

    93. Valto Pusenius (1925-) Jäger

    94. Erik Holmström (1920-2020) Sergeant

    95. Mauno Turunen (1923-) Lieutenant

    96. Viljo Saari (1921-) Sergeant

    97. Milja Eräkorpi (1929-) Lotta Svärd member

    98. Eeva-Liisa Kumpulainen (1924-) Lotta Svärd member

    99. Jaakko Valtanen (1924-) General, Chief of Defence of the Finnish Defence Forces 1983-1990, first guest to greet the President of Finland in the annual Independence Day Receptions since 2016

    100. Yrjö Savola (1923-) Sergeant

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4WEjrwubQE (Interviews 81-100).

     

    See spoiler...(number 86)

     

    Senior lieutenant Jouko Korhonen, last veteran of Finland's WWII long-range patrols, dead at 101. 

     

    Edit: Apparently he died in a bicycle accident.

     

    Edit 2: Updated the list also for the deaths of Jäger Valto Pusenius, Lt. Mauno Turunen, Sgt. Yrjö Savola and Senior Lt. Hans Andersson. 

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  16. Posted

    On 13/07/2023 at 03:14, arghton said:

    18. Jayapataka Swami - ISKCON leader, only 74 and therefore the youngest on this list, but his health history is very impressive. Critically ill and unstable for months following a brain stem stroke and two brain bleeds (given a 1% survival) in 2008, underwent tracheotomy, UTI in 2010, leg infection in 2011, severe pneumonia + liver failure (possibly caused by Hepatitis C) in 2015, in ICU with fever in 2016, liver and kidney failure (and transplanted new liver, new kidneys) in 2018, surgery in 2019, covid and leg infection in 2021, blood clot in 2022, skin cancer in 2023.

    Jayapataka fucking Swami hospitalised on dialysis with kidney failure, but improving (of course)

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  17. Posted

    2 hours ago, drol said:

    A quick recap on hospitalised/ill folks. @arghton , feel free to integrate.

     

    1)Steve McMichael (1957): in ICU with sepsis, stable and improving.

    2)Jeffrey R. Holland (1940): hospitalised with kidney failure.

    3)Mahathir Mohamed (1925): hospitalised with infection. DISCHARGED.

    4)Ivan Krasko (1930): hospitalised after stroke, soon to be discharged.

    5)Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi (1929): on life support, received two surgeries. About to be discharged.

    6)Mangosuthu Buthelezi (1928): in ICU with surgery complications.

    7)Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (1944): in ICU with respiratory failure and infection. Soon to be discharged.

    Ivan Krasko discharged from the stroke rehab centre...and says he's in good health.

     

    I can't find any proper additions. Apparently Sergio Corona has been discharged and David Levy, Israeli former deputy prime minister who was hospitalised last week in ICU with heart failure and pneumonia, has also just been discharged.

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    On 04/08/2023 at 01:09, Lafaucheuse said:

    Over all the candidates of the official list since the beginning, Who are you considering the top immortals ? Gabor and Suharto ? Who else ?

    Some not mentioned yet...

     

    Le Duc Anh 1920-2019: He had two massive strokes in the 1990s, allegedly he was very near death both times. 20 years later he suffered a massive stroke at around 97 and was in critical condition, but lived another year.

     

    The sri sri sri shivakumara guy, can't remember his name or ailments at the moment.

     

    Münir Özkul 1925-2018: Suffered from COPD and dementia for two decades before his death and called "male version of Zsa Zsa Gabor" on this forum in 2015. 

     

    Bob Dole. Balbir Singh Sr. Sumner Redstone. Li Rui. Satya Mohan Joshi. Saleh Ajeery.

     

    Stanley Ho 1921-2020: Fall and brain surgery in 2009 and later suffered a severe stroke. Kept alive for years on dialysis with kidney failure, dementia and parkinson's and his heart stopped atleast once during treatment.

     

    To me the "top" immortals living currently on the list (in addition to Carter, Bhuddhadeb, Chamorro and Woodward) are Bob Barker who's had strokes, falls, heart surgeries, cancers etc, Tin Oo who has been ill for a decade, survived a massive stroke in 2017 and was on oxygen with covid last year, VS Achuthanandan who has survived organ failures atleast two times and had a severe stroke at 95 and survived covid last year, Ma Shitu who was "terminally ill" in 2004 and survived lung cancer at around 105, Khamtai Siphandone who's been ill for decades and wasn't expected to survive a massive stroke he had in 2016, Saalumarada Thimmakka who's suffered from COPD for over 12 years, broken hip and other health complications and was in hospital nearly every year between 2012 and 2021, Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah who has been obese his whole life, had a tracheotomy in 2007 due to gastrointestinal perforation complications, hypoxia and a cardiac arrest and spent more than two years in hospital since and has been in and out of hospital since and in critical conditions atleast twice and now also Zhang Lixiong who survived being shot a number of times during the long march, was "comatose" in 1936, has been suffering from dementia for atleast five years, spent a year in hospital with a serious illness around 2020-2022 and was in ICU in March. Maybe Henry Kissinger too considering he's had a lot of heart troubles including triple bypass in 1983, heart attack in 2000 and other heart surgeries in 2005, 2009 and 2014.

     

    And last but not least...Mahathir Mohamad. He has a long and complicated health history as far as I know starting from a heart attack and bypass surgery in 1989. He was in ICU for a month with massive heart problems and pneumonia in 2007 and had suffered two heart attacks the year before. And he was at the verge of dying around January 2022. However he's very different to all the ones mentioned before as he's 98 and still able to regularly attend events and walk without aid despite all his health troubles.

     

     

    Here are the upcoming birthdays of August and September. Who won't make it?

    9 August - Mario Zagallo (92)

    12 August - Queen Sirikit (91)

    27 August - Mangosuthu Buthelezi (95)

    29 August - Ashi Tashi Dorji (100)

    ? August - Wang Hanbin (98)

    1 September - Seiji Ozawa (88)

    3 September - Paulo Maluf (92)

    17 September - Francesco Merloni (98)

    October seems to have more immortal birthdays than any other month, so I won't add it here. Many of them will be dead by then.

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  20. Posted

    On 21/07/2023 at 02:13, Ulitzer95 said:

    Bloody young death for a Mormon. Must've been engaging in sodomy on the sly or something for god to strike her down at such a young age.

    Interestingly, her more famous husband has had a serious of major health issues lately. Announced he was "taking a break" in April 2023 because of kidney problems, and he had contracted COVID-19. 83 in December. One to watch.

     

    On 21/07/2023 at 01:21, alt obits guy said:

    Patricia Holland, wife of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Apostle Jeffery R. Holland, has died. She was 81.

     

    https://ksltv.com/569498/patricia-holland-wife-of-jeffery-r-holland-dies-at-81/

    Mormon elder apostle Jeffrey Holland hospitalised.

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  22. Posted

    Article on ailing Indian opposition politicians as the opposition is trying to squeeze some votes out of them. It mentions two perennially ills: Manmohan Singh (former prime minister, long health history of diabetes, heart problems, dengue, covid...) and Shibu Soren (Jharkland controversial CM, has been on oxygen atleast three times in recent years with covid, heart problems, CKD and water-in-lungs) but also a third MP called Bashistha Narain Singh who has apparently also been in ill health for years. 

     

    Here's Soren arriving to parliament some days ago:

    shibu.thumb.jpg.ccbf5760af278127e3965046af7894a6.jpg

  23. Posted

    Frida Werkstel (Hebrew wiki) Holocaust survivor (Vilna Ghetto, Dachau) who later joined militant group Lehi and participated in the Cairo–Haifa train bombings of 1948 (and eventually joined the IDF Medical Corps in 1949), dead at 101.

     

    I wonder how many Lehi members there are left as it's mentioned she was the oldest living member at the time of her death. The group was dissolved in May 1948. There are three marked living on the Hebrew Wikipedia - Ezra Yachin (95), Yehuda Naut (98/99) and Eliezer Ben-Ami (99, most known for assembling "orange grenades" one of which was used as a suicide grenade by Meir Feinstein and Moshe Barazani in 1947)

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