Ageless Immortal Giant

The Dnepropetrovsk maniacs recorded a murder and it was posted online and is still available to see on certain sites. A recorded murder is called a "snuff" film, right? Or is that only for ones that also have a sexual element?

Check wikipedia's deaths in 2010 page. That's one hell of a lot of notable people to perish in a single incident.

The media prints a ton of stories about Nick Griffin/the BNP, many of which are complete bullshit. They'll sell papers because they're a controversial party, but they will never get elected. At most they will get a couple of MPs, but even that seems unlikely.

Because Wikipedia only lists people who are approved by the GRG, and the GRG almost always begins with the assumption that anyone with an age claim from a developing country is lying, so people wanting to verify that have to overcome both that bias and the fact that record keeping is very poor from those regions. Add in a senior claims investigator who takes the side of the race debate that believes that the social construct of race has significant biological backing and Wikipedia's list of Oldest people is the result. Race is a social construct? To a certain extent it is, yes. But there are genetic differences between populations that have lived in the same region for a long time and that is biological. Politically incorrect, but true. And I do not think that one should ever let political correctness get in the way of the truth. That being said, it's ridiculous to suggest that race is, or ever has been, concrete between the border of Mexico and America or between Western Europe or Eastern Europe... even 100 years ago these would have been absurd suggestions to make.

Here's an interesting one: 109-year-old Juan Carlos Caballero Vega, a veteran of the Mexican Revolution who was the driver of Pancho Villa, passed away on March 30. That's almost into supercentenarian territory! Why does Wikipedia list only the oldest people from what are classed as developed nations, I wonder? Easier to verify, probably, but is there any other reason?

There are some that need to be removed... Mick Cocks Winston Churchill Oral Roberts ...and there may be others, haven't checked them all Lol, "cocks" and "oral".

That guy has a singing voice that is a dead ringer for Captain Beefheart (and the lyrics are similarly nonsensical, it seems).

Amen to that.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol...icle6968594.ece Her health is failing. One to watch... (this report is from a few months back)

Claude Choules is the only surviving veteran to have seen active service. Surely that qualifies him as the only real veteran of the war. I know that there are official guidelines and whatnot, but if they didn't do anything...should they be counted? I think that Patch was the last veteran in the real sense of the word given that he actually fought in the trenches. Choules, for example, explained his war as boring. Coudn't agree more. It's good that the BBC and Sky are reporting him as the last veteran. Although Choules did put his life at risk, but not to the extent that Patch did. John Babcock will be the last out of the three though. His health is amazing for his age whereas Buckles and Choules look like garden vegetables ready to boil in the soup..... Also it'd be something of an anti-climax if the last 'veteran' living was Florence Green, a waitress.

As long as it's not Jacqui Smith. Making 'extreme porn' laws and then having her husband's porn on her expenses... extremely ironic. But this is offtopic.

So January 2010 J.D. Salinger was clearly the most significant death. We'll have to see how the rest of the year pans out.

What a looker!

It's just that it doesn't happen like it used to back in the sixties and seventies. Not to that extent.

Well, that was quite a miss for you DeathListers...

He's gradually edging his way up the popularity poll in DDP and the like. Old, fairly corpulent and at the wrong end of a life combining sedantary sessions and high stress. HAWH (heart attack waiting to happen) as they say. Yeah that's what I thought of him too, saw a YouTube video of him getting angry speaking to the European Parliament or something.

The French John Tyndall/Nick Griffin, Jean-Marie Le Pen, is rather old. Anyone considered him as a DL candidate?

Some great ones here.

LOL, irony... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Girl

I don't think he's worth including to be honest.

Two hopeless alcoholics have a fight, hardly news. But it does suggest his well hammered internal organs continue to weather the onslaught. Ripe old age seems highly unlikely, and if she dumps him........he'll probably go on a bender. I think given the age difference between them, his internal organs are probably more... weathered.

Osama bin Laden was the Emmanuel Goldstein of this decade. Whether he is actually alive or not is of no real consequence anymore.

92 years old. A good choice for DeathList 2010 surely?

You know, this has been a turnaround this summer from a poor year for death list to a year with a chance of making it up there quite high. There's a very good chance of both Biggs and Al-Megrahi going before the end of the year, which would bring us to 11, and then it would be only 3 more needed to equal the record, and with lots of old guys like Levi-Strauss, Nieyemayer, Wisdom et al they could croak at any time. Voted for Biggs but whatever.

This much I would agree with.