DevonDeathTrip

I'm still hoping Cahal Daly expires before midnight on Friday, thus propelling me to somewhere above 0 points overall.

Good Morning. http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2009...aring-last-days

Cardinal Cahal Daly seriously ill...

A very small proportion of people do survive the illness. Candye Kane, Colin Friels, Ronnie Hawkins and Marilyn Horne are still here and cancer free. The jury is probably still out of Steve Jobs' eligibility to join this rather elite club.

The prognosis doesn't look very good for Allen Schellenberger. I so nearly picked him for my DDP team, but changed my mind at the last minute because I wasn't conviced he'd get the right obituary. I think I replaced him with Alex Higgins. He is dead. http://consequenceofsound.net/2009/08/14/l...ger-dead-at-39/ Wonder if he will get the obit? I might have a Christmas present for you Misers. Is this enough of a mention to get those who picked Allen Shellenberger DDP points? It's the BBC and it says he's dead, I think that is all that is asked for.

TV football presenter Ray Stubbs is in hospital after falling ill while hosting today's Liverpool vs Wolves match.

Singer Vic Chesnutt isn't showing much festive spirit. He's in a coma after attempting suicide.

Albert Scanlon has died aged 74, which is exactly why I'm not submitting my DDP team yet... Oh dear. How about replacing him with Brian Godfrey, former Exeter City Manager, who also captained Aston Villa and was capped by Wales? He has leukaemia.

Very nearly costing me DDP victory - luckily for me he couldn't hold out that extra few hours which would have got him Christmas bonus points and left me in second place.

Here's a couple of terminally ill people that I considered for my DDP team, but they missed the cut, due to obituary concerns. So I thought I'd share them just to see if anyone else fancies taking a chance. Paul Vincenzi, 72, the husband of best-selling author Penny Vincenzi, is suffering from two brain tumours. "I am not in pain, but the Sword of Damocles is upon me", he helpfully tells us. Margaret Moth, 58, New Zealand born CNN camerawoman of some repute, is dying of breast cancer and living out her days in a hospice. When she was working in Bosnia, she was shot in the face, but returned to work a few weeks later. I just can't see her getting mentioned in UK press when she leaves us, but a CNN obit is assured, which I know counts in some other deadpools. Fortune will favour the brave in next years DDP, someone should take a gamble on them.

Singer, guitarist and one time member of Fleetwood Mac, Billy Burnette, is recovering after undergoing quintuple heart bypass surgery.

Tom Holmes resigned as leader of the National Front on Saturday...

Thanks for the tip, prolific guest. I'd like to pay tribute to your long standing efforts to keep us all informed of your firmly held beliefs on this particular subject. Would you be able to tell us when Jose Alencar is going to die? Oscar nominated director Fábio Barreto is indeed very seriously ill and in "a deep coma", after a driving mishap. He might well get mentioned in the English speaking press should he fail to wake up. The next few days will be critical...

Big Brother and the Holding Company guitarist James Gurley has died at the age of 70. According to his Wikipedia page: He also enjoyed a brief affair with Janis Joplin and at one point was charged with the murder of his wife, after administering her with a lethal shot of heroin.

Here's a list that "researchers" might be interested in. Some of the people mentioned might have recovered or died. Others might not get UK obits and I've completely forgotten who some of them are. Anyway, at some point in the past, I've considered them all for deadpools. To the person who joined DL especially to send me fan mail , this is for you: Richard Adams Steven Adler Izzat Ibrahim Al-Douri Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed Alfred C Baldwin Margot Baynes Sister Wendy Beckett Krishna Prasad Bhattarai Keith Bradshaw Jovanka Broz George Blake Raelene Boyle Oscar Brand Lord Brennan Abdelaziz Bouteflika Nusrat Bhutto Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo Mick Cocks Natalie Cole Winston Churchill Mike Craig Cahal Daly Rob Daley Margaret Delacourt-Smith Del Deanus Lord Delamere Peter Dimmock Peter Dula Queen Fabiola Princess Fawzia bint Fuad of Egypt Dr Charles E Friedgood Lord Brian Flowers Keith Floyd Alberto Fujimori Annette Funicello Sam Galbraith Martin Gardner Daniel Geiges Marshall Grant Ray Griff David Giuliano John Greenway Mark Halsey Anthony, Duke of Hamilton Richie Hayward Genaro “Chicanito” Hernandez Kristin Hallenga Alex Higgins Ken Hutcherson Josefa Iloilo Sheikh Fehmi Naji el-Imam Colin Inglis Ronald Isley Dana Jennings Kathryn Joosten Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont Hank Jones Francine Lalonde Ron Lancaster Bruce Langhorne Lord Hutchinson of Lullington Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Candye Kane Gary Kelly Kathryn Joosten Girija Prasad Koirala Joseph Kony Lee Kun-hee Iain McColl Linda McGill Lord Roy Mason Ann Maxwell Ed Mitchell Major Berrington Mkoma Sun Myung Moon Rory Morrison Bingu Mutharikahinga Debbie Nelson John Nkomo Barry Penner Sonia Peres Ed Pickford (folkie) Rosemary Pitman Rene Preval Peter Quaife Paul Quarrington Greg Rita Jean Ritchie Alain Robert Chava Rosenfarb Ivo Sanader José Saramago Ieng Sary Suchitra Sen Gitta Sereny Riad Seif Vincent Siew Robert Simpson Beatrice Sparks Alex Stobbs Kevin Steed Patriarch Mesrob II Mutafyan of Constantinople Patriarch Nyanasamvara Suvaddhana Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Norodom Sihanouk Paul Shrubb Than Shwe Vincent Siew Karen Sinclair Larry Stevenson Clyde Stubblefield Dame Elizabeth Svenson Adolfo Suárez Naim Süleymanoğlu Elizabeth Svenson Clark Terry Maura Tierney Waldo Thornhill Peter Tork Archbishop Desmond Tutu John Turner Grete Waitz Jan Wilson Mac Wiseman Kim Woo-choong Adam Yauch Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Emanuel E. Zeltser

Wow! Check out the amount of guests reading this thread (there were 73 a minute ago). I had no idea that DL was used this much for deadpooling research. I wonder if there is any mileage in setting up a premium rate "death tips" phone number?

The Perez Hilton blog says that country music legend Loretta Lynn is "fighting for her life" after a severe bout of flu. Lynn's daughter says her mother is "feeling great" and planning a trip to her home in the Bahamas over the holidays.

An interview with Candye Kane, one of the rare survivors of pancreatic cancer.

This is just a rumour, but I've heard on the grapevine that Tom Holmes, the racist elderly leader of what little remains of the National Front, is seriously ill. He didn't attend the NF's annual Remembrance Day march to the Cenotaph this year for the first time in forty years and he doesn't look or sound very healthy in a speech he gave a while ago (search Tom Holmes National Front on You Tube and you'll find it). The problem is, even if this is true, that the NF are such a small organisation now, I'm not even sure he'd get a UK obit when he does make the world a better place by dying.

Former South African health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has died at the age of 69. She became infamous for her denial that HIV causes AIDS and gained the nickname Dr Garlic because of her insistence that garlic and other herbs could cure the condition. She was going to be on my 2010 DDP team, so I'll be interested to see if she gets a UK obit. It looks like Alex Higgins will get a reprieve as he'd been dropped in her favour.

Oscar Niemeyer has "crap" 102nd birthday. recorded this week. He went back to work just weeks after his tumour was removed.

"Broken bones after a fall and a slight case of pneumonia".

Paul Samuelson, that well known prosthelytizer of neo-Keynesian macroeconomic theory, has died at the age of 94. Edit - Bollocks!! Damn you McNally, I would have been first but I got engrossed in reading his Wikipedia page midway though typing this post.

Ronnie James Dio has undergone his first chemotherapy session according to this update. Despite all the positive language, I don't think he's going to recover from this. There is no mention of him having had any surgery, nor does the article suggest any operation is forthcoming. Sadly for him, surgery is the only realistic hope of a cure for stomach cancer. If he doesn't go under the knife then I would imagine the chemotherapy is only a palliative measure, designed to prolong his life a little. He'll probably announce a new world tour now . I'm sorry to be so morbid on a thread started by Lady Grendel, who I know doesn't like all this sort of talk.

News from the Larry Gelbert memorial evening... Edit - I should have known he'd have his own thread somewhere: http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?...5&hl=Caesar . Mods, please merge Merged [HCW]