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    On 12/03/2023 at 18:54, arghton said:

    Chiam See Tong, Singaporean politician, former opposition leader and Sec-Gen of the centre-left Singapore People's Party 1996-2019, 88 today :birthday:

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    Well-respected in Singapore, he's founded for example the Chiam See Tong Sports Fund that helps children and youth from disadvantaged backgrounds to excel in sports. He's been in ill health for a while, suffered strokes in 1989, 2008 and a third more severe stroke in February 2009, severe fall and broken hip in 2013 and has been suffering from Parkinson's for around two decades.

    Chiam See Tong, as mentioned in the quoted post, 89 today! :birthday:

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    On 10/03/2022 at 22:51, arghton said:

    It's already past midnight in Burma/Myanmar, so I wish a happy birthday to immortal/perennial coffin tease/activist/politician/general Thura U Tin Oo, 95 today :birthday:

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    Thura U Tin Oo, Burmese activist/politician/general/former political prisoner/DDP pick/indestructible immortal is 97 today! :birthday::old:

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    1 hour ago, The Immortal said:

     

    Dead. 86 years old is an impressive run, that's like 136 in sumo wrestler years.

    Myōbudani was never really heavy but I agree, an impressive run. Not only sumo wrestlers die due to obesity-related reasons, from what I've heard most of the time they're under enormous stress, if they perform badly they might get demoted and I recall the "low-level" sumo wrestlers will usually get no pension at all from the Sumo Association. Due to the aforementioned and the fact  they have no post-middle school education many end up unemployed after their career. Modern sumo on top of all that also has steroid use etc. Last time I checked the life expectancy of a sumo wrestler was somewhere between 55 and 65, but steroids will cut another ten from that.

     

    The oldest one I'm a hundred percent sure is still alive is Yutakayama Katsuo, 86. The next major sumo deaths are probably going to be Kitanofuji Katsuaki (81) who has been in hospital for around a year now with heart failure and Takamiyama Daigoro (79) who was the heaviest wrestler of his generation and I remember he fairly recently said somewhere he "won't live much longer". I wouldn't be suprised if Akebono Tarō (former top-level sumo wrestler who permanently ruined his life by getting into show wrestling, kickboxing and MMA and now has enormous heart issues and likely CTE) clung on to life for years, his family clearly wants to keep him alive.

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    On 01/04/2023 at 01:15, arghton said:

     

    .. . there are names to keep an eye on, for example Swami Smaranananda who was hospitalised last year in critical condition and treated by four different specialist doctors and in his most recent appearances he's looked half-dead, wheelchairbound under blankets. Could live a few more months, but I doubt he'll make it to 2024 and his next hospitalisation will be his last one. 

    Swami Smaranananda, 94-year-old head of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission hospitalised and very critical on ventilator.

     

    Edit: He has been in hospital for more than a month but has now taken a turn for the worse.

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    The great Leif Segerstam says he has been wheelchairbound since a bad bout of covid last year:

    https://www.is.fi/viihde/art-2000010267597.html

    Segerstam says that music is his nourishment.

    Otherwise, not much happens during the day, everyday life mostly consists of watching TV. In the interview, Segerstam was asked what he does.

    - I breathe and sleep and eat and piss and shit. And if I take SPAM, then something else, Segerstam tells HS.

     

    Edit: Spam meaning the sexual dysfunction medicine. He was one of the three Finnish maestros I mentioned almost three years ago - the others, Kaj Chydenius and Jorma Panula are still alive too. Panula is still working at 93, Chydenius has unfortunately been very quiet in recent years and if he died tomorrow it would not suprise me at all.

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    1 hour ago, drol said:

    Silvia Pinal very well, not in any pain and being treated for a minor scar on her back.

     

    I guess it's another way to say she is a semicomatose 92-years old with extensive lung disease and bedsores from being bedridden for years. Her family are top level denialists.

    I've noticed a pattern here. So many of these immortals have families/followers who always seem to deny everything. (However Carter tends to outlive them one by one)

     

    Some miscellaneous news on other of the immortals listers:

    Sonomyn Luvsangombo celebrates 100th birthday (East Asia age reckoning). He lives on Moscow's Michurinsky avenue, I'm not sure if the images are new.

    Filipino immortals Enrile and Cesar Virata interviewed on longevity last month. Aged 100 and 93, both are still working and Virata seems quite sure he'll reach 100 too.

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    Silvia Pinal hospitalised but not in critical/serious condition.

     

    Javier Batiz, Tijuana music icon hospitalised with pneumonia, pulmonary edema, prostate and heart problems.

     

    And, last but not least, Cup pick Kaiti Grey "making a miraculous recovery". Smells like terminal lucidity.

     

     

    ...And more:

     

    My cup pick Manolis Mavrommatis and his wife Rena Venieri both undergo tracheostomy and are in critical condition

     

    Tin Oo discharged.

     

    Herlda Senhouse, US supercentenarian is currently hospitalised according to the gerontology folk.

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    Kagamisato Kiyoji, the 42nd Yokozuna of sumo wrestling, died on this day 20 (or, you know, 5) years ago at 80.

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    Born in 1923, allegedly weighing over 8 kilos as a newborn, he had already gained local reputation of being a "big guy" as a young teenager.

     

    After being invited to join sumo in 1940 (and he and his mother being offered financial assistance for it, his father had died when he was a small child) he made his professional debute at 18 in 1941.

     

    He was promoted to Ozeki in 1949 and finally Yokozuna, the highest rank in sumo, in 1953. He retired from sumo due to a chronic knee problem in 1958, remaining an elder of the Japan Sumo Association until 1988. He remained a "big guy" until his later years and on his 80th birthday was asked "What's your next goal?" to which he said "To reach Yoneju (age 88)"

    Unfortunately he didn't, dying only ten months later.

    The most beautiful, graceful sport.

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    On 22/09/2023 at 00:27, arghton said:

    "El Narco de Narcos" Rafael Caro Quintero, Mexican major cartel boss, former FBI Ten Most Wanted lister and close associate of drug lords Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, hospitalised for surgery and treatment of a prostate ailment he's suffered from for a while. 

     

    I think it's quite a miracle Quintero, Carrillo and Gallardo are all three still alive at 70, 93 and 77 and all (especially Carrillo and Gallardo) have been quite ill for a while.

    Article on cartel boss Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo's health from December. It mentions he suffers from colon cancer, rheumatism, hiatal hernia, hypertension, "long list of other diseases" and apparent dementia and is almost completely bedbound.

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    On 03/03/2020 at 22:05, drol said:

    Stanislaw Kania, who was First Secretary of Polish Communist Party in the 80s, has died at 92. This leaves few Polish communist heavyweights from the day; foreign ministers Stefan Olszowski (1931) and Marian Orzechowski (1931) and Prime Minister Edward Babiuch (1927) are the names that spring to mind. Surely a few others still going.

    Stefan Olszowski, Polish communist hardliner and Minister of Foreign Affairs who wanted to supress the Solidarity movement, died without much fanfare in December at 92.

     

     

    Four years later, all three of those listed dead. The question is, are there any of left? Colonel Eugenia Kempara should be the last left of the 7 (Jaruzelski included) accused in 2006 of crafting the martial law and will be 95 this year if still alive.

     

    Then there are the members of the Junta - Military Council of National Salvation. The three living or probably still living are Colonel Tadeusz Makarewicz (98), Brigadier General Jerzy Jarosz (92) and Colonel Jerzy Włosiński (80).

     

    Of other "notable" Polish communist politicians of that time Andrzej Werblan (99) is still probably alive too but wasn't a hardliner.

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