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I'm kind of doubting that Mr. Forsythe should be placed on next year's list if his health is improving.

I remember Vigoda best for his role as the judge in the Pauly Shore movie Jury Duty.

The news on Rev. Graham has been relatively quiet since his hospitalization. I suspect that he is not doing well even at home. It is known that he uses a walker and sleeps in a hospital bed in his house.The old boy will be 89 years old in another month. I'm guessing between the death of his wife and his failing health that he does not have a lot of time left. Very often a person who has lost a spouse and is old and declining does not live for very long after their significant other passes on.

Judging by those two articles, I would say that Graham's time is almost up. I mean this man has suffered from Parkinson's Disease for more than a decade, he has broken two hips, and he has cancer. Not to mention that he recently lost his wife of more than 60 years. I suspect from this point on that the doctors and family probably are just going to try and make him comfortable since there most likely isn't much if anything else that can be done to help him recover.

Billy Graham

Just too funny

How much longer can this man keep going?

Based upon the Wikipedia entry if Shamir was nursing home material back in 2004, he should be a better than average candidate for a DL success in 2007.

The year 2007 seems to have been a bad one for evangelists and their families: Jerry Falwell, Ruth Graham and Tammy Faye Mesner have all three died in as many months. Oral lost his wife a couple of years back and is not in good health. This year could see the end of Oral Roberts and Billy Graham both.

Charles Gibson of ABC News anchored a very interesting special about Billy Graham last night on 20/20. The special detailed his relationships with all of the Presidents. At the end some very recent footage of Mr. Graham was shown of him at his library in North Carolina. He was very thinn and frail and his voice was almost a whisper. He was talking about how he would like to visit the White House again and pray with another President. But he was highly doubting it because of his failing health.

I voted for Mark Felt.

Nothing more has been reported on Mrs. Ford's recent hospitalization or what the nature of her condition is. It is eerily kind of like how discreet President Ford's hospital visits were (a cause of death has never even been released). I'm wondering now if Lady Bird Johnson will outlive Betty Ford?

An LBJ related death: Jack Valenti, a key advisor to President Johnson died today. Valenti was 85 and several years younger than Lady Bird It seems that Mrs. Johnson has outlived a vast majority of her husband's former advisors and cabinet secretaries in addition to many of her contemporaries in the political world. How long will this woman keep going?

I have to say that Lady Bird Johnson is a very resilient woman in terms of hanging on this long. She is legally blind, suffered at least 2 strokes, and has had some heart and respiratory trouble. Considering that these health issues took place sometime back, it is unreal that she has made it into her 95th year. But at the same time, she is a wealthy woman and the widow of a former American president. These two factors combined are enough to give her access to the best medical care that is available. It's the same way that Ronald Reagan lived so long with Alzheimers Disease. However, I still think she is a good choice for Deathlist and no matter how long she hangs on, the DL should keep her on the list until the end. With regard to her breaking the record of Bess Truman, I seriously doubt it will happen as she would have to live through the summer of 2010. But then again you never know. It's also going to be very interesting to watch Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan. Nancy seemed to be doing well at the funeral of President Gerald Ford. Betty, however I am unsure of. By the time President Ford was laid to rest, she was being escorted to the burial site in a wheelchair. Yes, she is almost 89 and was certainly exhausted. But unlike Lady Bird, Betty and Nancy both lost their husbands when they were well into old age. Nancy will likely hang on a few more years at least until she is 90. But I am thinking that Betty could very well end up like Richard Nixon and die less than a year after her spouse.

I guess it is doubtful that Rev. Graham will be preaching at the Ford funeral. Not a bad idea to keep him on in '07.

Now Mrs. Johnson is one of 3 widowed first ladies along with Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan. At 94 years old, it is very doubtful that she will go to the funeral in Washington next week as she failed to attend the Reagan funeral. I would advise keeping Mrs. LBJ on the list and maybe putting Betty or Nancy on it too. I don't think the three ex-presidents, Carter, Bush, and Clinton are in frail enough health at the moment to go on the 2007 DL.

For 2007, maybe these persons? 1.Fidel Castro 2.Tammy Faye Messner 3.Ariel Sharon 4.W. Mark Felt 5.Phyllis Dilller 6.Lena Horne 7.Gerald Ford 8.Billy Graham 9.Brooke Astor 10.Ronnie Biggs 11.Frances Reid 12.Suharto 13.Sherwood Schwartz 14.Sid Caesar 15.Lady Bird Johnson 16.Charlton Heston 17.Jo Stafford 18.Abigail Van Buren 19.Art Buchwald 20.Michael DeBakey 21.Ruby Muhammad 22.Oscar Niemeyer 23.Les Paul 24.Beverly Cleary 25.I.M Pei 26.Andrew Wyeth 27.John Forsythe 28.Monte Irvin 29.Walter Cronkite 30.Edmund Hillary 31. Muhammad Ali 32. Sargent Shriver 33. Annette Funicello 34. Kirk Douglas 35. Nancy Reagan 36. Ernest Gallo 37. Patrick Moore 38. Albert Hoffman 39. Harold Pinter 40. Ingmar Bergman 41. Robert Byrd 42. Millvina Dean 43. Henry Allingham 44. King Sihanouk 45. Saddam Hussein 46. Larry Hagman 47. Margaret Thatcher 48. Nelson Mandela 49. George Melly 50. Ernest Borgnine

I voted for Lady Bird Johnson. We need a female DL success. And besides if you look at this year's list, she is now surrounded by Deathlist graduates.

Pitcher in the Negro leagues, died today of cancer

Any guesses? I don't think anyone had voted for Aaron Spelling in the last poll. I just wonder if the next hit will be another surprise.

There was sort of a Lady Bird-related death over the weekend. Nellie Connally, the last survivor of the JFK assassination limo ride died suddenly on Friday at 87. She was the widow of former Texas Gov. John Connally and the couple were lifelong friends of Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson. Will the shock of losing a friend of over 70 years be enough to send Lady Bird on through the pearly gates?

I suspect you are probably right Chicago. Ford is likely suffering from congestive heart failure and this procedure is just a desperate attempt to prolong his life. I'm still not sure if he breaks the longevity record in November. A 93 year old man with the heart and respiratory problems like he has had cannot be expected to last long overall. The news says that Ford is being kept in the hospital for several more days. And there are potential complications from this. You mentioned stroke and pneumonia and there's always just plain heart failure from old age. This will be a story to watch for the next week or so.

Both CNN and NBC are reporting that there will be no further comment from either the hospital or Ford's office until next week. Something sounds a little unusual here since Ford was in the hospital a few weeks ago for breathing problems.

This week's issue of Newsweek has an interesting cover story about Billy Graham and his "twilight". Read the full article at newsweek.com. I have to say the picture does make him look really frail.

I suspect this is probably happening. I have been watching all of the news channels and checking the net. I expect anytime to see a special report or breaking news report at sometime telling that she is dead.