JustPassingThrough

My main team, Plausible Passings of 2024, looks like it made it in OK, except for my selection of Prince Edward the Duke of Kent, which was filed under Prince Edward, the younger brother of the king. Re-checking my spreadsheet, it looks like I entered the phrases Prince Edward and Duke of Kent in the wrong order vs. the DDP listing, so my apologies for the mistake. (Though the fact that the younger Edward is currently listed on 5x as many teams as the older one suggests mine was not the only lost Duke of Kent pick.) I'm also unable to find my theme team, Six Feet Under the Dome.

Also the father of Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester, who is virtually certain to be elected to the US Senate from Delaware this November.

Considering that he was a pundit for Sky Deutschland, I'm bracing for a "Football Host is Toast"

My own lists would have done much better if I knew this kind of thing was allowed.

I've submitted two teams for 2024. I've entered a main team for the second year in a row and will also run a theme team for the first time.

I mean, he kind of has been in a continual turn for the worse for a long time now. He might keep on for a little while longer, but there wouldn't be any surprise at all if he died before the end of the year without any further statement from the family or something.

Funnily enough, Norman Lear did not vote for Carter in 1980. He actively campaigned for John Anderson, a liberal Republican-turned-independent candidate.

I think some of you are forgetting one of the forum's most famous mottos: Not everyone makes it to 100 or is beyond 100.

Not so sure about Dukakis imo. Looks he was just able to do a full interview this month for his 90th birthday, and he looks pretty good in the pictures: https://commonwealthbeacon.org/politics/at-90-michael-dukakis-still-looks-ahead/

Out of curiosity, I checked the old threads, and it looks like the first posts on the Tony Booth and Liz Dawn threads about their deaths were 52 minutes apart. Today, the first posts on Rosalynn Carter and Joss Ackland's threads about their deaths were 24 minutes apart.

It appears we already have an answer: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/10073-21-joss-ackland/

Can't remember if this was previously reported, but the article also says that there was no specific incident/illness that led to him starting hospice care:

Though filing paperwork to run for re-election doesn't necessarily mean he really will run for re-election. Members of Congress often do this as a formality to keep fundraising for their party, so if they do end up retiring, the money can be transferred. Dianne Feinstein also filed paperwork for re-election before her retirement was announced, and her staff absolutely scrambled to clarify to the press that this didn't actually mean she was running again, since this was around the time that the public reporting about her decline was really starting to pick up.

The jury has ruled that it's a legally valid will: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/11/aretha-franklin-will-trial-ruling

Seems like it. The New York Times is citing "three people familiar with the situation" who say it was a suicide: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/us/ted-kaczynski-dead.html

I recently read a post somewhere else on the forum (can't recall specifics, sorry) about a retired boxer with dementia whose wife had died, and apparently he usually thought she was just out doing errands. I guess in a circumstance like that, it might be better not to correct him since he won't remember the conversation anyway.

Jimmy Carter has now outlived a full 10% of the 2023 DL since entering hospice care. Tina Turner (RIP) is the list's fifth hit since February 18th.

For a while, I assumed she'd have no problem making it, because people can hypothetically carry on for a while with dementia, and it seemed she was in decent physical health for a long time. But it feels like she's really declined since her husband died, and the shingles and related complications have just been devastating.

The New York Times is reporting that, to no surprise, her recent illness was much worse than her office reported: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/us/politics/feinstein-illness-shingles-senate.html Key points: Her shingles infection spread widely to her face and neck, causing the partial paralysis of her face with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. The infection also caused swelling in her brain (encephalitis), making her memory loss even worse. Basically everyone around her has totally given up any hope she will choose to resign. The article suggests that were only two people who could have possibly convinced her otherwise (her husband and a former colleague), but they're both dead. There are still 18 months left in her term.

Not so sure about Trump, to put it politely. I could easily see Obama and Bush making it well past 90 though.

I think some reports implied that he wanted to do that after he started to go downhill, because he wanted to leave as much money to his family as he could before he was completely unable to work. Apparently if you look at the movies in question he's hardly in them and he was only on set for a day or two each, so he could just bank them up.

He's being treated for a concussion: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/09/politics/mitch-mcconnell-hospitalized/index.html

If so, that would in no way make him an outlier among many Americans of his background in that era. It was stunningly mainstream in certain avenues for a while, though it eventually was knocked off pretty decisively.

Yes. NYT obit for Charles Silverstein: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/health/charles-silverstein-dead.html

Wondering if he is very ill, but not dead yet, and this was some kind of early draft statement accidentally sent out, quickly followed by the PR people telling the media outlets to disregard it.