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The Taleban have released a video of Hakimullah Mehsud, but it doesn't provide any proof that he has survived the missile attacks which are said to have killed him. Surely if he had escaped death, he wouldn't have been able to resist gloating about it to the Americans. I'm actually more confident he is dead now.

American crooner Johnny Maestro, lead singer of Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge, is apparently suffering from cancer.

Ariel Sharon is 82 today. He has been in a coma for four years now. Here's an article published last month, which provides some insight in to his grim predicament:

Gary Coleman has been rushed to hospital after suffering from another seizure. He's probably just overdoing it with drugs, unless maybe he has a brain tumour?

Missed this thread completely. Congratulations to OoO and family.

A trainer at Sea World in Florida has been attacked and killed by an orca. I remember reading that one of their confined whales has got form for this sort of thing and is generally kept out of view of the public, I wonder if this is the creature responsible for today's death? Edit - It IS the same whale. Tilly claims his third victim: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/na...0,5560011.story

A rare 'success' story - dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo has starved himself to death, in protest at the poor conditions inside Cuban prisons.

Eddie Fisher is mentally impaired and "losing it", according to his daughter, who speaks fleetingly of his past amphetamine abuse. Rotten Ali/Stab In The Dark has had him on the DDP for about five years now, I'm sure his faith will be rewarded before too long.

Bob Dole is in hospital, recovering from a bout of pneumonia.

An update on his health. Nothing too conclusive really, but it does show that sometimes even cancer specialists aren't very good at telling how long their patients are going to live.

Whitney Houston Only Has Five Years To Live, apparently.

That's a fine choice of book, Godot. I read it last summer when I was searching for and failing to find answers about our possible fate. I remember the last chapter - What Must Be Done - very well, but I still came away from reading it feeling that Peter Ward is just wrong and that we don't have it in us at all to resolve the difficulties we have created. He seemed to have compete faith in mankind's ability to ultimately become collectively more constructive than destructive and I fear he was fundamentally mistaken on that particular point. I've decided I'm more of a Gaia man overall. Top rant LFN , hope you're feeling better now. You are wrong about global warming and the scientific community is right. They are not arrogant, they are trying, in vain, to save us. We are in very serious trouble and I am convinced that the planet in, say, fifty years will be a far, far worse place to live in than it is today and even then people (if there are any left) will refuse to take responsibility for the predicament in which we find ourselves. Something terrible is going to happen to us all and it is going to happen sooner rather than later. I'm off out to watch "The Road" one more time...

Lee Freeman, 61, guitarist with long forgotten 60s psychadelic band Strawberry Alarm Clock, has, er, clocked off, aged 61. I thought this thread would be as good as any to post such earth shattering news. , anyone?

Alexander Haig, 85, Richard Nixon's Chief of Staff, has been hospitalised.

Dead.

Oops. *Hangs head in shame*

Ellie Greenwich who wrote "Chapel of Love',' "River Deep, Mountain High" and "Be My Baby" with Phil Spector, has died aged 68.

Ruby Muhammad is going to sing gospel songs at a preformance planned for next month.

Colette Adams, the wife of Gerry Adams, is suffering from cancer.

Former Los Angeles police Chief Daryl Gates, 83, who resigned in the wake of the Rodney King beating, is seriously ill. Update - Diagnosis confirmed as bladder cancer which has spread to the bones.

DDT, is that something you had in your head already or did you have to look that up, either way it's interesting, I just wondered as I have odd little death facts in my head too. I remember posting it on DL a couple of years ago. I'm quite good at remembering useless information, but not so good at remembering things to do; tax car, collect Mrs DDT from airport, etc.

Carlos Alhinho, the former coach of the Angolan national football team, died after falling down an empty elevator shaft in a hotel.

On this day in 1899 French President Felix Faure, died:

Nancy Spungen was stabbed to death in her hotel room.

Death By Squid Curry.