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    Ariel Sharon

    Years are indeed possible, but years in double figures are highly unlikely if the degree of his stroke was accurately reported at the time. His life is being 'supported' but there are limits to what the best doctors can achieve. Since there is so little to go on it's hard to say exactly what will tip him over the edge but - for example - a vital organ like his liver being gradually compromised by the medication keeping his blood flowing would be the end. Politically and medically he'd be a non-starter if he needed a transplant to stay alive.
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    Seen Any Good Films Lately?

    Unlikely to be everyone's favourite film but - effete intellectual that I am - I would like to recommend Ten Canoes, which you may well find in your local Blockbuster, funny and affectionate film set in the past when there were no whites in Australia and mainly about day to day goings on in a tribe but - sort of - resonant with the way all small communities behave.
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    Ariel Sharon

    Highly doubtful IMHO, the months he's spent prone and mentally inactive are bound to have impacted on his lungs (where congestion and gradual depletion of the performance of said lungs will be a problem), his heart similarly is pumping blood round a body that gets no exercise meaning potential clots and congestive failure can only be held at bay by drug treatments. Assuming he's lost weight his heart will have a slightly easier time but it's still a small gain in a situation of major loss. Other vital organs can survive more easily than heart and lungs in this state but the tonnage of medication he'll need to stabilise him could gradually build up to the point that his liver and/or kidneys are also suffering. Yeah, keep him in the top 50.
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    Benazir Bhutto

    Latest on how she died includes the Pakistan government claiming a primary cause of death was a knock to the head as she tried to avoid bullets and shrapnel. In other words when she was attacked she got so mad she hit the roof Such blather is likely to have an inflammatory impact on her already seething supporters. This ain't over.....probably.
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    The Dead - 2007

    Jonathan Witchell BBC journalist. I heard some of his - very good - reports from Sri Lanka on the World Service. Been dead a fortnight and we've all missed it.
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    Ariel Sharon

    HIGJFY So, you're saying, this is Stalin's tomb, with a pulse? Might have to reconsider him on my list(s) for 08. He was first reserve on the DDP, bumped up to the first team after an explosion in Pakistan yesterday.
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    The Dead - 2007

    Blimey, I wouldn't like to be the one who has to carve his gravestone. Nay problem, they'll just chisel: Well bred Ped's dead. Top gag!!!
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    Deathlist 2011

    I'd wager that Benazir Bhutto is equally at risk and we're always down on numbers re females. Just got back from your flight from Rawalpindi, MP? Aye, tell me about it. Y'know that morning after tinnitus you get from a rock gig.....trust me, it's got nowt on suicide bombings!
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    Benazir Bhutto

    Indeed, and also he'll be protected really well for the next few days, but he can't hide away forever. Early January might be the right time to go amongst his people again!
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    Ask A Deathlister

    I'm not packin' a Mac. Should make it easier, eh?
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    Benazir Bhutto

    We discussed her too not a week ago and came to the conclusion that, rather like al-Qaeda hierachy and Middle East politicians, any of them could go and you might as well pick a name at random. But yes, out of Pakistani politicians, she was the most likely target. Indeed VT, and it's gutting so close to the new deadpooling season, a pain lessened by the shorter odds all round on leading Pakistani politicos. Their elections put the lacklustre farce of Strictly Come Dancing to shame, eh?
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    Benazir Bhutto

    Sure as hell looks terminal. I posted just before Christmas in response to OoO's speculative 50 picks for next year suggesting she was a liklier assassination hit than their current PM. I had a hunch from the day she went back about this one, hence starting the thread. I'd gone so far as to back the hunch with her picked on my DDP team. Might consider Pervez himself now, since there'll be a shitload of people out there baying for revenge.
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    The Deathlist Christmas Special!

    Merry Christmas Everyone!!
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    Paul Gascoigne

    His plans now include a chain of football themed pubs. Doubtful if he'll see any of this through, but still a useful indicator of where his head remains.
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    Ideas and possibilities for 2008

    Doesn't mean anything - Gene Pitney was on midway through a tour when something got a hold of his heart, and Les Rita Mitsouko cancelled dates just days before mainman Fred Chinchin died. But yeah, Nelson seems in pretty good nick. Take yer point VT but the post above suggested some advance warning of Nelson's demise and it - kind of - got my juices flowing. What strikes me is that insuring a big tour is impossible if the star is already known to be in serious health danger. Willie's dates are still on as far as I can see.
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    Deathlist 2011

    Yeah, but will Phil Hill die in 2008? At present I've got him 19th on my provisional DDP team and not on my HPDP line up.
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    Deathlist 2011

    Great list OoO but regarding: I'd wager that Benazir Bhutto is equally at risk and we're always down on numbers re females.
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    Things To Do While Waiting For Death... 2007

    Tough indeed, if you'd got some inkling of the scale of gaff he was capable of making you could've cleaned up with a unique pick and joker for a young death on DDP.
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    Ask A Deathlister

    A question: Is there some reliable software, legal or otherwise, that will allow me to turn ANY radio programme accessed online into an MP3 file? I'm asking because I love 6 Music's Freakzone and for ages taped it and listened to it as a scuttled around the roads with my work. However, since May the Maryfleet of high performance vehicles does not include one with a tape deck and I'm getting hacked off using listen again.
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    Ideas and possibilities for 2008

    Re Willie Nelson; he's booked tour wise up to May 13th in London and despite his upcoming 75th birthday and liking for spliffs seems in fairly good shape. Anyone - like the person tipping him - want to show us some evidence for this hunch?
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    Ronald Coase For 2008?

    Aye given the number of people forced to study something he developed by way of theory we'd probably have a marginally livlier thread than we managed for some this year. Deffo more action than Cliff Mitchelmore.
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    Football

    Meanwhile, at Burnley!
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    Titanic Survivors

    For all her tender feelings crusty old Milvena has used her status as a career opportunity, not above appearing on those 'what's my secret' type television programmes in the past and - ironic as it seems - often handy with a strong opinion against those exploiting the tragedy in other arenas. Her lucidity in this instance has me reconsidering her on the passenger list for my DDP team.
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    Jack Ramsay

    Wiki page; nowt on his health, mind.
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    Football

    Fixture list showing CUFC (2nd) at home to Swansea (1st) - Check Tickets - Check Weather forecast pretty good - Check Website confirming game is still on - f**k!
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