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Very lovely. Who was the old guy in the wheelchair?

I think my 1st sub back then was Viola Fletcher.

Louis van Schoor, South African murderer known as "Apartheid killer", dies aged 72: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd1r45kme45o Kill count is at least 39.

Yes, if there's an obit without the "lifelong dedication" etc... that would be good. Slightly strange that he didnt get a local shout out. There's still time though.

I thought that David Elmore Smith might have died off radar but after several months of a social media break, he has since posted twice, including a tribute to Richard Simmons: https://www.instagram.com/davidelmoresmith/

Timely! Someone else just asked if he died off the radar.

No Guinea worm cases this year so far: https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/case-totals.html (Thanks, reddit...). It has been said that it's a race of who lives longer, the worm or Jimmy Carter.

And multiple system atrophy. The illness that killed Jan AP Kaczmarek.

Sophie Kinsella gives an interview about her cancer: https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/sophie-kinsella-talks-living-brain-cancer-finding-inspiration-112221814

Tatyana Ozolina, Russian "motorcycle influencer" with several million followers on social media, dies falling out of a window, err, no, in a crash in Turkiye at 38: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/russian-influencer-tatyana-ozolina-motorcycle-crash-b2585655.html

Somewhat related, my favourite chess vlogger, agadmator, also lost his dog Medo last week. Had a long, good life though. He uses to appear in the early videos, but eventually didn't climb the stairs anymore.

Yes, in this house we also knew him. Sad, but he had slowed down a lot the past year.

Top russian economist Valentina Bondarenko has died at 82 after falling out of a window: https://www.newsweek.com/top-russian-economist-dies-after-falling-out-window-1929398

Oh, I just realized that wannamaker's pick Tim Katona is dead: https://www.davidcbrownfh.com/obituaries/Timothy-Katona?obId=32355781 But there is no obit yet. He's been dead for 10 days, will it happen?

Our german winner Lena has had to cancel 3 concerts within 3 weeks, always with the promise of showing up for the next one: https://m.bild.de/unterhaltung/stars-und-leute/lena-meyer-landrut-wieder-notfall-absage-kurz-vor-dem-auftritt-669df9dfef3837161e38c2ea