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  1. Posted

    35 minutes ago, drol said:

    Brief recap of hospitalised/ill folks. @arghton, someone to add?

    Pastham Mogilaiah who's now (according to an update a few days ago)  "stable and improving" after extremely critical conditions from suffering a heart attack while on dialysis

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  2. Posted

    On 12/09/2021 at 20:55, arghton said:

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    Abel Alier (1933-) First President of the High Executive Council of South Sudan (Head of State) 1972-1978 and 1980-1981. Seems to still be active in politics.

     

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    Joseph Lagu (1931-) I've mentioned him before here as he was the leader of Anyanya in the 70s. Wife died in London from covid a while ago, Lagu survived. President of the High Executive Council for a year, 1978-1979.

    Abel Alier Kwai met current South Sudan president/dictator Salva Kiir Mayardit (you might remember SKM from when he pissed himself in December and the journalist who filmed it mysteriously died a while later) late last year and could stand without aid while Mayardit used a cane. He'll be 90 in two months. Joseph Lagu met Mayardit in January and looked fine for his age, that is either 92 or 94 this year (some sources say he was born 26 Nov 1929, some 21 Nov 1931). He's also made appearances since.

    Impressive they're both still alive as it seems their political careers peaked in the 1970s and South Sudan's had more than 45 years of wars, civil wars and other conflicts since 1955.

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  3. Posted

    Of those never picked, Jiang Zemin's not been mentioned yet. Although not as notable as his predecessor (who was on DL seven times before dying) he was the former leader of the world's most populated country, was in failing health for his last ten years and was never picked. There were already strong health rumors in late 2011. 

     

    Emperor Hirohito in 1989. He was gravely ill with internal bleeding and terminal cancer for months before dying at the start of January

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    On 11/02/2023 at 00:11, arghton said:

    Oommen Chandy stable and off oxygen support. Wants "more treatment for his throat issue"...

    Shibu Soren stable. Suffering from CKD complications, mild pulmonary edema, lower respiratory tract infection and kidney infection. And he's also been rumored to suffer from dementia for the last 13 years.

    More controversy on Oommen Chandy's health condition:

    https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/former-cm-s-brother-requests-medical-board-to-monitor-oommen-chandy-s-health-during-bengaluru-treatment-101681413622353.html

    He's been in hospital for treatment for around two months now and allegedly only left for an easter trip. His brother and some of his family claim he isn't receiving proper treatments for his throat cancer but instead "Christian spiritual healing". By far the most boring case of Indian politician with endless health issues...atleast the other ones haven't had Schrödinger's terminal and curable cancer. 

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  8. Posted

    On 14/01/2023 at 01:34, arghton said:

    89-year-old Saint Lucian or Dominican (the island country, not the republic) cardinal Kelvin Felix recently hospitalised with covid but off ventilator. Article is a few days old.

     

    Edit: Recovered, now wheelchairbound but looks fine.

    Kelvin Felix in hospital again according to a facebook post from some Dominican parish a week ago and they're asking for prayers. Circling the drain and I doubt he'll see 2024.

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    Congratulations ladyfiona

     

    1923: Roedad Khan / Tunku Ampuan Najihah

    1924: Oscar Wyatt / Magdalena Gamayo

    1925: Ronnie de Mel / Reuma Weizman

    1926: Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah / Irene Camber

    1927: Luigi Manocchio / Aira Samulin

    1928: Archbishop Demetrios of America / Nguyễn Thị Bình

    1929: Tahar Zbiri / Farida Khanum

    1930: Emmanuel Milingo / Biljana Plavšić

    1931: Michael Hardie Boys / Carroll Baker

    1932: Tep Vong / Naina Yeltsina

  11. Posted

    After no deaths since July last year...

    Ben Ferencz :rip: 7 April 2023

    Kenneth McAlpine :rip: 8 April 2023

     

    Leaves two survivors from the original list - Josip Manolic and John Cruickshank. 

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  13. Posted

    Indian movie singer (?) Pastham Mogilaiah critically ill after suffering heart attack while on dialysis. In late March I saw news of him having irrepairable kidney damage and kidney failure but I chose not to post it as I didn't really know who he was. There's a more known guy from the same Indian state with a very similar name, but this is apparently someone whose largest claim to fame is having performed in a Telugu "blockbuster" movie called Balagam, released this year. Pastham doesn't have a Wikipedia page.

     

    Kunduru Jana Reddy, Indian Telangana (earlier Andra Pradesh) politician hospitalised after suffering heart attack, stable. 

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  17. Posted

    VS Achuthanandan, Violeta Chamorro, Tin Oo and Ma Shitu are also strong competitors I'd say. But in the end Kissinger will end up outliving all of them.*

     

    Zhang Lixiong made a rare appearance last month...apparently he's in hospital again:

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    That's a nasogastric tube, high flow nasal cannula and atleast one other tube going into him. And there's also an IV pole and whatever else in the background. Yet apparently they say he's in good health and looking at the images on Weibo in good mood, seems able to talk with people, sits straight and holds the bouquet they gave him.

     

    *Edit: I'd add Sheikh Salem to the list. On his Immortal CV...he had ICU stays atleast in the early 2000s and after suffering seemingly hypoxia and cardiac arrest (possibly also internal bleeding) due to severe gastrointestinal perforation he underwent tracheotomy (see around 1:13 in this video - that clip is from 2007) and following a two and a half year recovery at hospitals somehow recovered and returned to Kuwait in January 2010. He had hospitalisations in February-March 2013, September 2018, December 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021...in 2020 he was critically ill, Kuwaiti social media users have for the last few years been saying "I pray for his recovery" or something similar every time he's being talked about.

    He's had death rumors atleast in February 2013, and multiple ca. 2018-2021.

     

    For next year in addition to Big Jiew I'd suggest atleast Kundera, Than Shwe, Yael Dayan, Shibu Soren, JM Le Pen, Berlusconi, Irenaios of Crete, Jerry Lawler and Rupert Murdoch if they make it. Doubt more than one or two of them will make it though.

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  19. Posted

    Turkish actor Rana Cabbar hospitalised and in ICU but doctors say his health is good. 

     

    On 07/04/2023 at 16:40, arghton said:

    Bangladesh health activist Zafrullah Chowdhury now himself being reported critically ill with kidney failure and the South Asia classic "other old age complications"

     

    Edit: "Old-age complications" apparently meaning heart, lung, kidney failure + sepsis :pop:

    Zafrullah Chowdhury "critical but stable", hospital holds meeting and forms a medical board to treat him. They're not going to let him die so easily.

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  20. Posted

    Reading on Shecky Greene, impressive he's made it to 97. Sarcoma of the ribs in 1976 that resulted in the removal of three ribs, cancer, hip transplant, throat surgery in the 1990s, manic depression, bipolar disorder, panic attacks, gambling addiction, severe alcoholism (and atleast one drunken car crash), drug addiction (nardil, SPAM and other benzos), total hip replacement around 2002, leg fracture in 2017 and other stuff. Someone on Facebook says he's still in good spirits.

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  22. Posted

    Cui Naifu, China's Minister of Civil Affairs 1982-1993 dead at 94/95. As far as I know he was at the time of his death one of the oldest living Chinese ministers...The older ones according to Wikipedia are Song Ping (105), Zou Yu (102), Zheng Tuobin (99), He Jingzhi (98), Wang Bingqian (97), Zou Jiahua (96), depending on when Cui Naifu was born maybe also Zhu Rongji (94), Yang Zhenhuai 杨振怀 (94) and Lü Peijian (94). Zhenhuai and Peijian are the only ones not mentioned here before. 

     

    Edit: There's also Lin Zongtang 林宗棠 (96), former Minister of the Aerospace Industry and Huan Yicheng 黄毅诚 (96) Energy Minister and great friend of Russia.

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  23. Posted

    From "Whose death will actually break your heart?"

    :(

    On 15/02/2021 at 16:41, arghton said:

    Ingvar Hirdwall

    Harald V

    Patrick Stewart

    Ingvar Hirdwall widely being reported dead at 88, no cause of death given but seems like it was unexpected as he was still working as far as I know. Always loved his acting especially in the Swedish crime drama movie series (Martin) Beck as detective Martin Beck's weird neighbour Valdemar. 

     

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