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"Juno is the worst fucking film I have ever seen, I really really hate Ellen Page."

Also, do any mods feel like separating this thread into its two component parts, "families of the famous" and "unfamous people who are getting tabloid coverage for their illness"?

Well there goes that as a unique pick in the 2014 DDP for me. Now up to you lot to see if you think Aaliyah's mum would get the Daily Mail obit. She's not exactly Voletta Wallace/Afeni Shakur Davis when it comes to the mothers of dead urban music stars.

Why settle for one or the other?

Really hoping MK pulls through, one of the greats.

The first of Rocky's opponents to die, unless the past 30 seconds I've spent googling is wrong.

He's following in good (wakka wakka) footsteps. Previous two series of Bailando Con Le Stelle have had Gianni Rivera, Paolo Rossi, Christian Vieri, Christian Pannucci and Marco Delvecchio cut a rag. The Italian version of "I'm A Celebrity!" has had Antonio Cabrini and Francesco Coco on as contestants, two men with absolutely nothing in common. Also some prominent gay activists and a few drag queens. Just saying.

Roland Rat voice/operator David Claridge is still alive, as well. Here's a man on the IMDB message boards who has a weird interest in the rat's appearance on Blankety Blank.

And if the chemo doesn't work, he'll be "living in a box" for a long time.

Heart attack. His blood pressure rose without trace.

A 74-foot box, a box for every year

Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into the gravelly ground A gravedigger, digging: I look down

Chopper Read: "No, honestly, seriously, I am definitely going to die of liver cancer within a few months honestly"

He really shouldn't have added the Rolfaroo into the bottom right corner of that picture he took of him sodomising a nine-year-old, huh?

BREAKING: TV presenter Rolf Harris charged with nine counts of indecent assault and four of making indecent images.

Another year, another "Tommy Morrison is days away from dying from AIDS/Tommy Morrison says that AIDS doesn't exist" story. I think this is the time the germ finally finishes him off, tbh.

How about some updates on some of the names that could decide where the trophy ends up in 2013? Katherine Crowe Now that it's been ascertained that the BBC, for some reason, have a fascination with this failed pop star, those of who didn't pick her are all cursing themselves. Her latest blog post is her admitting that her days are numbered and that "I have pain now, and I always said I wouldn't last long with pain... something big is coming". Time for TMIB to get his crow's feet/as the crow flies puns ready. Clive James Has confirmed that he "won't see Australia again". So some good news for him there. Still feels like a 2014 casualty to me, but we'll see. Sandy Jardine As has been said elsewhere, dead pools are often decided by who lives rather than who dies. Sandy's cry of "no surrender" to the tumours infecting his liver have led to a diagnosis of "in remission", which should see him welcome in 2014 with a rousing rendition of "The Sash". He's still using words like "battling" and "fighting" though, so I don't think he's off future longlists just yet. Kate Granger Let's be honest here: a terrible, terrible attention whore. Is apparently well enough to be changing jobs and is already announcing conferences she'll be at next year. I'm sure another "I will be tweeting/liveblogging/updating Pinterest on my deathbed" press release will be out soon when she has a book to plug though. Ryan Buell Is working on a Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers comic book. No, seriously.

Feel like this guy is going to be on a lot of top 10 teams in the 2014 DDP.

She's no good.

I think "people alive from the first X Eurovisions" is an undertaking that'll happen pretty soon on here. The last surviving performer at the first Eurovision would get a UK obit, right?

Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti were executed by the American state today in 1927.

I spent about 20 minutes last week googling her to see if there was any health news from her, but she seemed to have dropped off the map when she finished her radio show. Surprised nobody ever picked her on the DDP.

Re-mission, the two harshest words in the deadpooler language.

And now she's cancelled an appearance at a civil rights award ceremony. Back on the shortlist for 2014?

42-year-old man found dead at ONJ's house from single gunshot wound. I'm not saying she's involved in some dodgy shit, but she's involved in some dodgy shit.