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    Joost Van Der Westhuizen

    Yes, but you won't be able to get past Golden Slumbers, who's in the lead (for now at least). Think his death puts me in the top ten right now, barring any deaths a bit later... Bert was one of my teams to watch out for this season. Proper dark horse for the title, as seen by his start!
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    Survivors

    The 2015 list is notably disappearing quickly.
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    The Deathlist Cup

    Rugby started when Webb Ellis picked up the ball during a football match and ran down the pitch before placing it in the net with his hands. He asked the referee "Is that a goal?" and the ref said "No, but it was a bloody good try, son." Anyhow, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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    The Hare's Death Pool

    Ah, but the year is young...
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    Joost Van Der Westhuizen

    It was Fignon I was thinking of, Joey, but apparently he was 50. Thought he was younger.
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    Joost Van Der Westhuizen

    No, John Curry was 44. Simon Cadell was 45, and I think Tim Gullikson was early 40s. Pretty sure there's an obvious one staring me in the face from the last decade too.
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    The Dead Of 2017

    Ooh, that's a shocker. Me: I guess he killed himself. Wife: He must have been hungry then.
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    The Deathlist Cup

    He also defended catenaccio as the "right of the weak", which I always think of whenever I see Jose Mourinho's teams play.
  9. JOOST IN TIME FOR ANOTHER HIT 4/50 6th February 2017 Rugby legend Joost van der Westhuizen has died after a long battle with ALS to give The Crowdsourced Deathlist another success. Van der Westhuizen was part of the South African team which won the Rugby World Cup in 1995, events which were viewed as the re-birth of post apartheid South Africa as a sporting nation, and which were transformed into films like Invictus. He played in three rugby world cups, but became known for his off the field antics until health problems multiplied in the last decade. Thereafter, he formed the J9 Foundation, for researching motor neurone diseases. He has died at the age of 45, and was in 20th place on the list.
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    The Deathlist Cup

    It's a right deluge for Joost! Young Willz Thistle Do Nicely v Captain Chorizo 0-0 Maryportfuncity FC v Morbid Kid 0-2 The GUN’11 (Grim Up North) v JoeyRuss 4-2 Deathray v Heef 0-4 Chopped Liver v Death Comes to Wembley (Garn2) 0-2 Shaun of the Dead v Rad Guy 0-2 Charon v The Dead Cow 0-3 The Cooler Name (Switch) v I Might Have to Pull You Off at Half-Time (Rockhopperpenguin) 2-0 Pedro67 v Jiroemon Kimura 2-0 Msc v Gcreptile 2-5 Every game has a scorer now, except the first one, where YoungWillz is holding Captain Chorizo to 0-0 after 5 full days of competition.
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    Joost Van Der Westhuizen

    Going by the Serie A players, it tends to have a 5 year survival rate in footballers. Joost lasted a long time though.
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    The Deathlist Cup

    Yeah, that's a bit of an own goal there, but given it sounds like you'll be 8-2 up before too long, you can't complain too much...
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    Places With Silly Names

    There's a place in Wiltshire called Hanging Langford. Bonnie probably shouldn't visit.
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    Ian Brady

    Well, skipping that great quote by Darrow you can read any time Spade posts, the comment by Linda Smith on Jeffrey Archer having the "oxygen of publicity" comes to mind: "I'm not so keen on him having the oxygen of oxygen, myself." Fucking hell, Smiths been dead 11 years this month too.
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    Ian Brady

    Underworld folk distance themselves from 'imminent' Brady funeral plans. Reminds me of a moment a good 15 years or so ago when the Daily Record had a bit on the Limbs in the Loch killer, allegedly speaking to his fellow prisoners. It had the immortal line from one of them: "I raped a 15 year old lass, but that guy's scum!"
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    Leah Bracknell

    Andy Kaufman went to the Philippines for their mystical healing. Dead within 2 months. Barry Sheene went for the holistic "starve the cancer of energy" route. Dead within 7 months. We've got two Deathlisters on the old homeopathic treatments, and that convinces me more about their "general fuckedness" than the cancers themselves. Might as well go on the Cheeseburger Cancer Cure. Will work just as well, you'll last about the same length of time, and it'll be tastier...
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    Leah Bracknell

    Mystical healings and all that rubbish. You know, healing terminal illness via acupuncture, massage and all that jazz. I got that but do they have a deity or shit like that? Err, it were sort of linked to the whole spirit belief in places like the Pacific Islands, parts of Asia, etc where its linked to old religious customs, yes, anthropologically speaking. But in Europe, it tends to be aging hippies with Geronimo fandoms... I didn't really pay much attention to this though. Now if you'd asked me about the chaps who run the cargo cult about Prince Philip being their God...
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    Leah Bracknell

    Mystical healings and all that rubbish. You know, healing terminal illness via acupuncture, massage and all that jazz.
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    The B B C

    It is a shock win. We collapsed in the second half and then won anyway! Against one of the favourites. Entirely unScottish.
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    Joost Van Der Westhuizen

    I'm vaguely confident he might not see 2018. Probably.
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    Derby Dead Pool 2017

    Hmmm Will almost certainly die in 2017 - Christie, Coward, Downie, Elias, Gilbert, Nevin, Ricketts, Sumner, Joost, Van Zandvliet Will almost certainly die in 2017 but risky obit - Lakovic, Aspin, Butts, Suisala 50/50 in 2017: Al-Baghdadi, Karl, Bracknell Not Likely to die in 2017 but 11 months is a long time with a brain injury: Homlund The first two will wipe out, imo, but I suspect one or two of the four in the risky obits section will get a QO.
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    Dead Pop Stars

    Guess he'll soon find out if the last night on earth is for living. Told that pioneering treatment he's been crowdfunding will extend his life... by about a fortnight.
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    Gord Downie

    Makes public appearance.
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    Richard Adams

    He's the voice of SuperTed!
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    Only Famous For Being Ill And Dying

    Well, that's the thing about MND. Difficult to judge.
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