gcreptile

That gap between John Key and the rest... what a lost opportunity.

German leftist author and satiricist Wiglaf Droste dead of a "short, heavy illness" at 57: https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/wiglaf-droste-ist-im-alter-von-57-jahren-gestorben-a-1267747.html

Wow.... so his own feeling of impending death was right. In between, you coul dhear other vocie saying, he's just old and rail / nothing really wrong with him.

Surprising, I think. The outfit "The Bookseller" gave him an obit, which reminded me of Vanessa LaFaye. Does he have anything left to publish?

I was looking how far I am away from my second hit (presumably, Ian Holm) and stumbled across this picture from the premiere of the Tolkien biopic:

Saudi-Arabian snapchat "star" Dana Al Qahtani dies of a sudden heart attack at the age of 9(!): https://gulfnews.com/world/gulf/saudi/saudi-9-year-old-snap-star-dana-al-qahtani-passes-away-1.1557745567956

Vera as well

Hah, I forgot about this. Maybe I'll get around to do it, though I have the feeling that they'll all be dead if I don't hurry.

Awww... such a sweet lady, punished by our collective sigh of relief - finally a 2nd hit! She doesn't deserve to be ghouled over - but at least she had a long life, and was in good health until last year.

Ah, here's the thread! Today's Guardian article on him and jews: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/11/louis-farrakhan-denies-antisemitism-satanic-jews

Two more possible hits for you, as Granville Coggs and Mary Stopes-Roe await confirmation or a QO. The former had an interesting life, let's see if it's enough. The latter should come with time.

Accidental find: Johnny Rotten's wife Nora Forster battles Alzheimer's and can't deal with all the homeless people at their Venice Beach mansion anymore: https://www.newsmax.com/reagan/johnny-rotten-california-homeless/2019/04/30/id/913913/ Edit: Hmm, the knowledge was already out there for quite a bit. "Mid stages" in 2018.

Cancer mum-slash-activist Roz Paterson has died: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-48186042

Freddy Starr finally another hit. My three surviving members in the G.I. generation are all members of the immortals club I guess.

Okay, Sprent Dabwido reduces the gap from 15 to 12pts: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/08/sprent-dabwido-former-nauru-president-and-leader-of-nauru-19-dies-aged-46

Sprent Dabwido, the former president of Nauru: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/08/sprent-dabwido-former-nauru-president-and-leader-of-nauru-19-dies-aged-46

Heh, well, if I manage to lose to the best monthly performance for the third time in a row - I ain't even mad! Though to be fair, whenever I've lost, my performance wasn't really much to begin with. Of course, I knew about all these names but decided against them (e.g. I put much importance in a single tweet that suggested a more long-term care program for Msr. Vanier). I promise though that I'll get at least one unique hit this month and the end result will not be quite as devastating as it appears now.

Subir Nandi dead, oof: https://www.thedailystar.net/arts-entertainment/news/subir-nandi-passes-away-1740016 Looks like two people in this round are up for a squonking!

God damnit (yes, really, God! What is your plan here?). I mean, some part of me understands that you want to live for as many days as you can - to squeeze out every single day you can have. But then another part of me thinks, maybe it's better to go out quickly. Boom - done! Or at least, like Joost Van Der Westhuizen, quickly make the jump from "bad" to "dead", without half a year spending half-dead.

Re-admitted to hospital two days after the discharge - for a "cardiac check-up and pacemaker assessment": https://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/front-page-2/geelani-readmitted-at-skims-soura/

He's currently in bed and in pain: https://www.newsbytesapp.com/timeline/Entertainment/45724/206414/amitabh-bachchan-cancels-sunday-darshan-due-to-health

John Prine has to cancel concerts on the advice of his doctors: https://www.jambase.com/article/john-prine-cancels-jazz-fest

Old, but otherwise, nothing to report it seems.

The "Departure Lounge" - a place to come to terms with mortality: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/05/welcome-to-the-deaprture-lounge-destination-death "Death has been a zeitgeist subject for some years now – witness the Death Café phenomenon, the growth of conferences and books on dying and TV series like the recent Ricky Gervais Netflix comedy After Life. " No mention of the DeathList though - but "Top Tips for a Good Death"

Article on (prospective future deathlist member) Werner Herzog's interviews with Mikhail Gorbachev. Health news in the final bit - a suspicious health decline that prevented him (Gorbachev, not Herzog) from attendinh the premiere: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/01/werner-herzog-im-not-a-pundit-dont-push-me-into-that-corner