DevonDeathTrip

Boxer Ludumo Galada, 26, the reigning WBF featherweight champion, knocked out permanently after a car crash.

This site has done a list of the 100 Most Likely People To Die In 2009. I think DL's list of 50 will get better results. Worth a read though, if you're interested in that sort of thing.

Richard O'Sullivan's former partner and co-star, Sally Thomsett, has given an interview to The Daily Mail about how fond she still is of the DL favourite. http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/femail/artic...-The-House.html

Devon, I think you are missing the highlight of her story. The original article mentioned that she suffered from a disease which affected one in ten billion. At the time it was possible this information could have promoted her story to a level worthy of the qualified recognition. I didn't think she would meet the fame requirements but I took into consideration that others might view it much differently. It turns out that I was right. If she doesn't get the obituary it will mean that "in a way" I've taken out several competitive teams and that is impressive. But it's a sad story. The original motive was to exclude candidates like this from DDP and a rule wasn't made and this is the reason why. Low hanging fruit is DDP suicide. Yes, you must be very proud of yourself . We're all in awe of your cloak and dagger techniques. You really need to take a step back from all of this BS, you're talking even more crap than normal. Talk it over with your therapist or something - I'm starting to think your mental illness is even more unusual than that poor woman's cancer.

He has pneumonia. http://www.etonline.com/news/2009/01/69534/

Joanne Evans will not be receiving a UK obit. Was that tractor tasty DDT? Well, Phil, I just don't think she will. She died on Tuesday and so far her death has only been mentioned in the local rag. I can't really see the nationals running a story on her. She'll probably get a double page spread in the Sunday Telegraph now. Its too early at this stage to say she won't. Remember UK papers include tabloids and they can never resist this kind of story. I'd hold my horses... I just don't see what makes her case any different from the hundreds of other young women who die of cancer every week. The tabloids have loads to choose from and the longer Joanne Evans is dead, the less likely she is to come to their attention.

Joanne Evans will not be receiving a UK obit. Was that tractor tasty DDT? Well, Phil, I just don't think she will. She died on Tuesday and so far her death has only been mentioned in the local rag. I can't really see the nationals running a story on her. She'll probably get a double page spread in the Sunday Telegraph now.

Joanne Evans will not be receiving a UK obit.

The porn industry is going tits up. Larry Flynt is seeking a $5 billion bailout from Washington to rejuvenate the industry, which he says is suffering because of the economic downturn. In the UK, The Daily Sport 'newspaper' has run in to financial trouble.

Racist thug William Devereux Zantzinger, 69, who drunkenly attacked and killed a barmaid in 1963, has died. The barmaid he killed was called Hattie Carroll and the incident inspired Bob Dylan's song "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll". Zantzinger was sentenced to a grand total of six months in jail and a fine of $500. The judges considerately deferred the start of the jail sentence to give Zantzinger time to harvest his tobacco crop.

That bastion of good journalism and accurate reporting, The National Enquirer, has reported that Michael Jackson may only have six months to live. Meanwhile, Ian Halperin, the biographer who orginally claimed that Jackson is suffering from a lung disease has offered to pay for him to have medical tests to prove that he is in good health.

Well done OoO, good work!! I'm sorry to tell the teams that picked Alfonso Antoniozzi, the opera singer who was supposed to be ill with pancreatic cancer, that the story might have been a hoax and he's believed to be as fit as a fiddle. I suppose I should have made a post on DL before the year ended to clarify this, but I was kind of interested to see how many teams would take the gamble....

Jack Kemp, former U.S. Housing Secretary, Buffalo Bills quarterback and Vice Presidential candidate alongside Bob Dole in 1996, is suffering from a undisclosed type of cancer.

Patrick Swayze's ‘hideous’ chemotherapy hasn't worked. He is now been administered an experimental drug called Vatalanib, which is being tested on patients who have failed to respond to other treatments.

Not today, do you? No, I don't!that's why I asked Dear Guest, Please be assured that if there are ever any high or even medium profile clerics who are not enjoying the best of health, then I will make every effort to advise you of their predicament via this thread. I'm not sure if it's just bishops and cardinals who float your boat, or if your interest extends to Eastern Orthodoxy - in which case you may be interested to know that the Patriarch Mesrob II, Mutafyan of Constantinople (He's with the Armenian Church), is suffering from serious health problems: http://www.mirrorspectator.com/2008/06/10/...-suspends-work/ I wouldn't count on him getting a UK obit, though. I hope that helps DDT

If this puppy could work a computer, he would stand a good chance of winning the DDP: Casper, the cancer detecting spaniel

This article doesn't say much more but the fact that a British newspaper bothered to publish it is encouraging enough for me Guardian article from Nov 2008 Good spot. I think the legendary DDT missed that one! http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?...st&p=102750

Thanks everyone! I wish I could say that winning meant nothing to me, but when I found out on Christmas Day that Harold Pinter had died, it took a lot of effort to stop myself leaping on to the nearest computer and going straight to the DDP site to see if I'd been knocked off the top. I had to take a few deep breaths and "have a word with myself". I do fully understand that winning a deadpool competition is nothing to get too excited about and it does rank fairly low on the list of good things that have happened to me in the last year. We all know that picking a list of twenty people you expect to die over the last twelve months is, to put it mildly, morally and ethically questionable. I can't help wondering if he who does it best does the most damage to his karma. My victory has been a bit of a defining moment for me. As from now I'm going to give posting on the ideas thread a break and pursue other hobbies for a while. Besides, I reckon I'd have had a bundle of unique picks in the last two years if I'd kept my cards a bit closer to my chest. I doubt anyone on DL, apart from Rude Kid, took part in the 2000 DDP. Here is a very venerable thread from the alt.obituaries group, which mourns the passing of MT Graves, who managed to win that year's competition posthumously: http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.obitu...amp;q=MT+GRaves

Former Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga has been admitted to hospital in Florida after experiencing "a bout of uncontrollable coughing".

I'm in. The Living End Ken Jones Patricia C Dunn Eluana Englaro *Joker* Edwin Morgan Sir Bobby Robson Linda Uttley Alex Higgins Patriarch Pavle of Serbia Paul Birch Patrick Swayze Vasily Aleksanyan George Kimball Wendy Richard David Hart Sir Dai Llewellyn Robert Novak Suzan Atkins Abu Ayyub Al Masri Jose Alencar Edward Kennedy

Gazza is due to feature in a Channel 4 programme, to be screened on Monday night. His 12 year old son, Regan, has predicted his father will die soon from drink and drug abuse

David Harts listed on Wikipedia don't - currently - include our croaking man. So, no CPDP points, then. He ought to get one for the DDP though, quite a notorious figure in his time, friends in high places, all that...providing he pops it next year... Well I picked him for my DDP team - only to be told in DL Chat last night that he was already dead. I can find no evidence to support this claim, so I'm hoping he still breathes. I hope that, unlike Phil Drabble and Steve Fossett, I'm right about this one. No f*****g way! Check the Guido Fawkes blog as its run by his mate, if true then Basil does get an airing for 2009... So he isn't a unique pick then. I don't think you can use your sub if you pick someone who is already dead? So if he is deceased, then you're starting on 19 with me. But he isn't, so no need to worry. I think he might well find the net for us in 2009.

David Harts listed on Wikipedia don't - currently - include our croaking man. So, no CPDP points, then. He ought to get one for the DDP though, quite a notorious figure in his time, friends in high places, all that...providing he pops it next year... Well I picked him for my DDP team - only to be told in DL Chat last night that he was already dead. I can find no evidence to support this claim, so I'm hoping he still breathes. I hope that, unlike Phil Drabble and Steve Fossett, I'm right about this one. I might have to concede on this one, DDT - can't find evidence of his demise, so perhaps he passed away in one of my regular dreams about the heroes of the Thatcher years. Well that's a relief. I can concentrate all my efforts on tracking down Gerry Rafferty now. I too had night time visions about David Hart recently - it was dark, dark stuff; Arthur Scargill had sort of morphed in to Hannibal Lecter and was roasting your hero on a spit, using the contents of Hart's wallett to keep the fire going and feeding bits of him to Dave Nellist, Derek Hatton and Dennis Skinner. Someone (possibly the late Eric Heffer) was videoing events, so that the tape could be sent to Thatcher.

Four and a half years since the first and last post on this thread. Let's hope it sees a bit more action in 2009.

Bad move. He died shortly after midnight today.