Spade_Cooley

Three 6 Mafia founding member, who left the band due to legal reasons before they won an Oscar/had a shit reality show, Lord Infamous dead of a heart attack at 40.

Yeah, she'll probably decide to get cancer.

Casey Kasem passes the DL fame test, surely?

Well... Of the top 10 teams currently in the DDP, seven celebs were picked for six or more sides: Henry Cecil (9) Van Cliburn (9) Reg Presley (8) Bonnie Franklin (7) Damon Harris (7) Michael Winner (7) Hugo Chavez (6) Trying to predict which people will end up on 60% plus of the 2014 DDP top 10 is a fool's game, but if I had to have a punt I'd say Wilko Johnson will be on probably all major teams next year, and I'd expect to see Sam Simon and Valerie Harper on 80+% teams as well.

Dead. Get Down (Death Rattle) Another one off the 2014 longlist then.

Voted Mickey K, but wouldn't be surprised to see Jaruzelski pop off by December 31st as well.

A Christmas Day carking for any number of top 10 picks could see someone climb to the top of the pile. Jaruzelski, for instace.

He was a cunt and I'm glad he's dead.

Biggs' death means that Crossing The Styx also hits the century mark for points in 2013.

Back in the hospital again, back in "serious" condition.

I'm guessing that once he's dead for real, one of the relatives will release another CD composed solely of Ray's dying gurgles to further cash in on his memory. Oi!; there's a small army of us out here who've spent our lives buying albums like that and worse. "Released by popular demand", if you don't mind. Wait: buying music? Like, paying money for music? Since when did people do that?

So yes, I will now take all your plaudits.

Finally... 100% official confirmation from Bill Mack:

I'm guessing that once he's dead for real, one of the relatives will release another CD composed solely of Ray's dying gurgles to further cash in on his memory. I'm sure there's enough unreleased Eva Cassidy tracks for his vocals to be mixed into. Get 2Pac on the middle eight as well, bob's your uncle.

Also, Ray Price's family are fucked up and his wife, son and sister-in-law are all clearly fucking deranged human beings and I am happy for Ray that he's now able to spend some time away from them.

Hypothetical: as the award of points is for the obituary, what would happen if someone was widely reported dead on December 31st but was then reported to be still living on January 1?

Fucking hell, is Janie Price watching this forum and just trying to get a rise out of us?

Thanks man. I don't think it's even 50% sure that I've won this thing yet, any death from OoO's team would give him a lead, plus deaths to either Kate Granger or Katherine Crowe would see me fall off the perch. A great competition this year though, a fantastic pace-setter team and at least 30 teams have had strong chances of being winners at some point.

Reported dead by the daughter of George Jones and Tammy Wynette...

In a coma...

Givens is going in for some kind of operation around December 19th or so, so he's still at the point where they think it's worth trying to operate. Annoyingly, confirmation of success/fail won't come through until our teams are sent off.

Pretty sure this is the last possible announcement there can be before "he dead". From his wife, on Ray leaving hospital today:

Completely missed that this guy was ill, be interesting to see if he gets a national obit anywhere by December 31st: Lloyd Pye, the cryptozoologist most famous for his promotion of the "Starchild Skull", has died after a short battle with lymphoma aged 67.