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I'm from Maryport, you're a Southerner. Once you stumble to the Geography GCSE it'll all come clear to yers.

Site's wasted on you lot then innit? Bloody southerners. Me - I'm 103 and a WW1 vet. Seen it all and stuck a bayonet in most of it. Keep loggin' on to check I'm still alive, like.

The show is something of a departure loungue for ageing thesps. A lazier bunch of Deathlist compilers would simply cut and paste the cast list every year. Charlie Drake and Patrick Moore would be interesting additions to the cast.

Well remembered. That 'beheading' was more of a bludgeoning when Tom Pryce's Shadow car ran close to a marshall and the driver's helmet collided with the fire extinguisher. South African Grand Prix 1977. Piers Courage collected a few yards of catch fencing in the early laps of the Dutch Grand Prix 1970, not smart when he was driving an alloy bodied car full of fuel. There was bound to be a spark. The resulting fire reduced pretty much everything - including him - to ashes. Jim Clark - who has some rightful claim to being the best driver ever to step into an F1 car - collided with a tree in a meaningless formula 2 race at Hockenhiem in 1968 in an accident never fully explained. Thankfully the tree - though shaken - survived. Jo Siffert rather pooped the party when Brands Hatch staged an end of season race meeting in 1971. Officially it was to celebrate Jackie Stewart's second world championship although it had rather more to do with the Kent track wanting a cash windfall because the British Grand Prix was at Silverstone that year. Anyway, Siffert's race ended in a bit of flame grilling as the pathetic marshalling at the track battled for what seemed hours to put out the fire. In all honesty one of the most ghoulish bits of sports film in existence.

What about if she blew herself up and got splattered on the side of the House of Commons. Would be sort of poetic in the way it relived a great moment in her life.

IYD: Yeah I started another Formula 1 thread but this dust in the lungs news deserves its own little corner. You can't have too many high octane threads in my book. Thinking of starting another one soon where we relive those great accidents of the heady sixties and seventies, you know: Jo Siffert, Piers Courage, Jim Clark.

Those blissful days of bonfires on the track and hapless rescue arriving too late may be long gone but the ghouls amongst us may be in for a boost. Mika Salo - a Finn whose best ever finish was second in the 1999 German Grand Prix - has recently had an operation in which an alarming quantity of carbon dust was discovered in his lungs. The dust had clearly collected as he breathed in flecks thrown from his brake pads during his racing career. As Salo pointed out many drivers had longer F1 careers than him, Michael Schumacher has started about twice as many races.

Wondering if the host of Mr and Mrs - the most successful show in the modest history of Carlisle based Border Television - is still breathing. Anyone know?

Aye well, it's rainin' outside after a week of scorching heat and all the aged SE England living Deathlisters are still alive. Maybe Claire Raynor's porky carcass will take a lightning strike or succomb to a golf ball sized hailstone. Think we're due a result soonish from someone on the list.

Nobody claimed this was an exact science. Andrea de Cesaris was a seriously sh*t racing driver. I think he still holds the record for the most F1 starts without a win. He pranged cars back in the day when fatalities were still a fairly common part of the entertainment on offer so I'd have gone with him as a good outside bet in 87. David Crosby would probably have made the list in the mid-eighties given his heroic intake of illegal stimulation back then but old racers retire and old druggies clean up. If we limited it just to the old and infirm we'd lose half the fun.

You can get help with dyslexia these days, try Citizens Advice. Personally I find the odd bit of light relief posting about the imminent demise of Charlie Drake helps me unwind after a hard day as Commander of UK forces in Iraq.....oh sh*t, ignore the last bit eh?

Have his kids rejected him?

Re freezing him and giving him to alien life forms, Moore is a confirmed skeptic of many years standing in the area of ET life. For many years he was the predictable 'name' they dragged out to rubbish such claims. Doubt he'd appreciate the gesture of being given to inhuman life forms dead or alive.

Aye, but like authors and formula one champions these astronauts seem to go on. For what it's worth the whole Apollo 11 crew Armstrong/Aldrin/Collins are still alive.

I'm really glad I started this thread now....lots of interesting information. No sign of any CSNY deaths though.

Crosby is the logical choice but you'd have said the same about the manic depressive and oldest of the lot Goon - Spike Milligan - forty years ago.

I do some work as an obits correspondent - no really - I'm tellin' ya, heatwaves hit the elderly hard. Especially in the UK where people are prone to dropping dead from shock if it fails to rain for three days.

Struck me recently it's a miracle they're all still alive. Crosby wasn't supposed to survive long enough to see his last child born but a new liver sorted that and he celebrated by getting diabetes. Stills celebrated Crosby kicking crack by going on a heroic cocaine binge in his fifties and Young - Godfather of Grunge and leathered old goat that he is - has just been treated for an anyeurism. Nash, cleanest living - though that isn't saying much - celebrated being so damn healthy a few years ago by breaking both legs in a powerboat crash and subsequently spent the hours on stage on a luctrative reunion tour in a specially adapted chair. So - authorities on demise out there - who do you think will finally put paid to any chance of another CSNY reunion?

What gets me is the widespread belief in voodoo and similar forms of spooky medicine in some parts of Africa. Surely any idiot could work out that if sticking pins in dolls and invoking curses worked Mug Abe would've been dead years ago.

Hottest burst of the year so far predicted for the weekend and next week. A few of the current list live in SE England. There's an outside chance of some action from Patrick Moore, Edward Heath, Michael Foot, Claire Raynor.......

He's presenting a history of TV spoofs and jokes on Channel 4 tonight. Not live obviously but he'd still need reasonable health to have recorded it.

Wasn't Sir Francis Chichester alive - just - when he featured on a stamp?

It isn't him, the man himself is in a nursing home. He's safe enough there and has the money to remain until he dies. But he's nowhere near healthy enough to be selling Big Issue.

Once he's topped himself, or gone totally mad, some actor will win an oscar playing him in a biopic.

On the day the great man turns ninety I can't help thinking his inclusion this year was a bad call. He's doing one of those 'wall to wall celebrity mates' albums, a celebration gig and lots of other things that suggest 90 is nothing much to him. Then again, there's always the chance he'll die of boredom during Peter Frampton's turn at the celebration gig.