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Ray Glindon died in April without much fanfare: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/tributes-ray-glindon-north-tyneside-20438108

Yes, true, there was that BBC music catalogue page that didn't count. Still doesn't.

Maybe I am dense, but...was it? Last Word is part of the QOs since 2021, see the first post in the DDP 2021 thread. msc also pointed everyone to the Last Word web page which is a QO:

QO via Last Word: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011lpt Here's hoping for a repeat next week for Belinda Sykes.

James King, protagonist on "My 600-lb life" dead from fatness at 49: https://thetecheducation.com/my-600-lb-life-james-king-dead-at-49-obituary-confirms/

Curiously, she already got a mention on Bloomberg.com, by a person who already gave their condolences on twitter. BBC Three has also tweeted about her. She's not a breaking news kind of person. I even think she might be the rare "Last Word" only obit.

I'm currently debating with myself whether to pirate... ... too many subscriptions already... It's like Cable packages.

I do try to include Yass Queen more into my speech. Almost blurted it out to my boss when she announced a financial Corona bonus.

Tired of picking Ady Barkan? How about climate activist Casey Harrell? https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/17/casey-harrell-the-climate-activist-taking-on-wall-street-and-the-muscle-wasting-disease-thats-killing-him

New Zealand poet Michael Morrissey has cancer of the lymphoma: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/self-portrait-michael-morrissey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Morrissey_(writer)

South African singer Theuns Jordaan dead of leukemia at 50: https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/4085273/theuns-jordaan-dead-south-african-singer/ Last year, he had said that his prognosis was very good.

So I see the William & Kate picture, and is there a Meghan & Harry picture right next ot it? I'm somewhat disappointed if it is.

Yeah, that twitter account source doesn't exist anymore. That same Italian hoax journalist?

I thought so, too, mainly because I suspect she got fertility treatment which occasionally causes cancer. But it could also just be a cover story for her being fed up with palace life.

I wonder for real if he's going to get any non-finnish obits. He has been picked quite often here and there.

At this age, you could die any time... literally any time. No time is more or less likely than any other time, so you never know, it could happen literally now. So I 've taken up refreshing the BBC home page every ten seconds, waiting for these breaking news.

Phil Cheung, aka DJ Chill, now chilling for eternity at 46 after a short cancer fight: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dj-who-never-missed-day-25467476

Oh, I just forgot about it.... thanks for the reminder!

Last month, Horst Eckel, the last living 1954 champion, had hip surgery, which was then kept "secret" (i.e. not sold to every newspaper), now he's walking again. Franz Beckenbauer established contact with the specific clinic: https://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/fussball/horst-eckel-89-54er-weltmeister-nach-operation-in-reha-klinik-78014006.bild.html

Bernie Ecclestone 91th birthday pic of two weeks ago: https://nypost.com/2021/10/30/bernie-ecclestone-celebrates-91st-birthday-with-15-month-old-son/ Now in typical DeathList age, but maybe still 1-2 years too soon?

Everyone's first deadpooling regret Scott Thorson, Liberace's chauffeur, apparently out of prison: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/scott-thorson-wonderland-murders-liberace-1226549/

Her trial begins: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/14/ghislaine-maxwell-goes-on-trial-after-15-months-jeffrey-epstein Here's an "exclusive" sob story about her "weak, frail" condition: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10198663/Ghislaine-Maxwell-tells-inside-prison-cell.html She's lucky the Queen is so weak right now, it's probably the reason why she might still survive this.

James Pearson, official biographer of Ian Fleming (which makes him a "James Bond" author), dead at 91: https://www.007travelers.com/congratulations-and-condolences/in-memoriam-james-bond-author-john-pearson-1930-2021/

Well some easy, shameless names that were hits in 2020 would not be allowed in 2021, so we had fewer targets, if you will. Still, the Yahoo obits gave us a few hits we wouldn't have had otherwise :cough: Suzy Friton:. We need about a hit per day now though. Not impossible, but a bit unlikely. Some late year-end obits would help. We still had a good number of hits, considering some dry weeks throughout spring and summer.

Pre-post-apartheid.