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  1. N. Fritz

    The D-A-CH-DeathList 2024 (page 18)

    Austrian authors dropping like flies: Ilse Helbich, who published her last novel shortly before her 100th birthday last fall: https://wien.orf.at/stories/3242370/ And Alfred Komarek, author of the Polt series, among others: https://noe.orf.at/stories/3242448/
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    The 4th Death of 2024

    I went with Brokaw. But have any deathlisters run the list through ChatGPT to assist with their picks for the next death?
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    1. Jimmy Carter

    Wikipedia for one...
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    Silvio Berlusconi

    And some obvious misses for DL!
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    Ideas and possibilities for 2024

    This makes me incredibly sad...
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    Yoko Ono

    May I direct everyone's attention to this podcast episode from You're Wrong About... https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/3883952-yoko-ono-broke-up-the-beatles
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    The D-A-CH-DeathList 2024 (page 18)

    Boris "Yellow" Pfeiffer, member of the medieval German band In Extremo. Evidently died at a Covid-Protest.
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    Thoughts On The 2022 List

    Not so much about the picks, but the first two hits of 2022 have brilliant tag lines! Ashes to ashes, Durst to dust Poitier not coming to dinner
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    Irate Visitors Rage Here, If You Must.

    DeathList press! https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/sick-deathlist-predicts-queen-die-25772887
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    The D-A-CH-DeathList 2024 (page 18)

    Zither virtuoso Cornelia Mayer (edit: can't find independent confirmation... can anyone else?)
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    The D-A-CH-DeathList 2024 (page 18)

    Cartoonist Martin Perscheid, of cancer
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    The D-A-CH-DeathList 2024 (page 18)

    The funeral of Friederike Mayröcker was public and I attended it. I was unfamiliar with her work, but am working on a project regarding Vienna's Central Cemetery and considered it research . Most surprising was the choice of music: instead of hymns, the songs that were played included Procul Harum's "Whiter Shade of Pale" and Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" She is buried with her partner, Ernst Jandl. They lived in the same apartment complex but with two separate apartments... I think we can learn a lot from this!
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    The D-A-CH-DeathList 2024 (page 18)

    Austrian journalist Hugo Portisch dead. Anyone have him on their list?
  14. I'd like to be remembered as the person who saved the discipline "classics" from cancel culture by developing an interdisciplinary "introduction to Humanities" course based on the letters of Pliny the Younger.
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    The Dead of 2021

    damn... I went to high school with him. He was a year below me. Damn...
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    Covid 19 ------- Third wave?

    Austria's numbers are also going up... presumably because in order to get certain services (like getting your hair cut) you have to have a 48 hour Covid test. More people are getting tested, so more cases are being caught. But a further consequence is that the people who test negative are allegedly going out to party like it's 1999 and getting infected that way... at least they look good doing it!
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    The 6th death of 2021

    how can it not be Prince Philip? He's been in hospital for weeks now and nary a word about how he's doing after his heart procedure!
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    The D-A-CH-DeathList 2024 (page 18)

    Alfred Nagl, Brigadier and oldest resident of Burgenland (105) Pictures of his elaborate military funeral can be found by searching his name and "Zapfenstreich" His Festschrift is still available via a major online store
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    Yoko Ono

    That's what the link in the former post was meant to point out.
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    Yoko Ono

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    The D-A-CH-DeathList 2024 (page 18)

    Swiss sociologist and artist Urs Jaeggi
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    Bob Barker

    Probably a false alarm triggered by Robert Barker's death in Peoria. Date of birth similar
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    The D-A-CH-DeathList 2024 (page 18)

    Arik Brauer dead at 92 https://www.vienna.at/wiener-kuenstler-arik-brauer-starb-mit-92-jahren/6875177/amp
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    Donald J Trump

    Historian Timothy Snyder thinks that Trump will be forced to live outside of the US to avoid the consequences of his sketchy dealings. (Ca. 34 min) https://www.democracynow.org/2021/1/13/capitol_insurrection_historian_timothy_snyder
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