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Pop Artist Robert Indiana, of "LOVE" fame, now "bedridden and infirm": https://www.reuters.com/article/us-art-robertindiana-lawsuit/legacy-of-love-artist-robert-indiana-is-subject-of-new-lawsuit-idUSKCN1IJ2Q9 There's also a different opinion in the same article though.

Well, as I've just been on Asian websites, how about this: "Five princes who are young, rich, handsome and eligible": http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/families/article/2146699/five-princes-who-are-young-rich-and-handsome-and-still-eligible I'm just posting it for the totally different perspective... Prince Mateen of Brunei... Crown Prince Hamdan of Dubai.. (" Another Instagram star, Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum has six million followers on the social media platform, where he shares photos of him kissing ponies, scuba diving in caves, handling falcons in Uzbekistan, feeding squirrels, standing at the edge of a cliff (is there potential?) and selfies with other members of the royal family.")

Well, I don't know how believable the article is, though it's apparently legit, but martial arts superstar Jet Li suffers from severe health problems: http://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/2146873/same-jet-li-we-all-know-martial-arts-legend-battles-illness-and-injuries

Hideki Saijo, japanese pop-singer who had several big pop hits in Asia in the 70s, dead at 63 after heart failure: http://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people-events/article/2146738/japanese-singer-hideki-saijo-best-known-cover-version They say his biggest hit was a japenese cover of Y.M.C.A. He also was a successful actor.

Phew, just barely, but it is enough...

Young King Dave, a wanna-be rapper and also a meme in 2017, dead at 19 from a collapsed lung: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5k8zp/smokin-doinks-young-king-dave-died

Not traveling from Cape Town to Jacksonville, Florida to donate some manuscripts: http://www.jacksonville.com/news/20180502/nobel-laureate-archbishop-desmond-tutu-donates-manuscripts-documents-to-unf

Honestly, I don't know anymore. So I guess it wasn't him.

I was thinking about whether to post it or not. Maybe he was msc's mystery name? Curiously, "William Hurt cancer" is a popular search term but it was unknown to me. He was picked by someone in the DDP in 2014. Anyway, I assume it's not very aggressive considering he's had it for years. But you never know...

My pick Derek Yancik died two days ago: http://www.wickedlocal.com/news/20180515/blackstone-valley-tech-football-coach-derek-yancik-died-monday

Haven't looked at my other other gamble Thuy Thanh Truong in a while. A mid-April update had pretty bleak news: https://medium.com/thuy-muoi/day-544-thoracenthesis-3d413443b4e7 Fluid building up, cardiac arrest, etc... But she doesn't yet look like at death's door.

Eli Avivi, president of the micronation Achzivland, with a population of 2, dead at 88: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-44142794 Everyone of his citizens called him "the best president ever".

Hmm, I never knew that actor William Hurt battled prostate cancer that had spread to his bones for years. And that the National Enquirer knew about it.

Partly, I still haven't made up my mind about three of the cancer mums. With 17/20 scored, he/she is at 145,25 pts. I think these three other cancer mums are not that likely to obit. The team would end up in the mid 150s.

Update: Ray Wilson, Jacqui Forster, Tessa Jowell. No change yet to Bessie Camm (had her at 100% obitability, and 80% chance of dying). Shalom Ouanounou unchanged at 50% obitability - but looks like the coin toss will soon happen. Larissa Podermanski down to 5% obitability (I think the window has closed pretty fast here.). Hope I didn't miss any death among the about 40 teams I watch. Wait... I think I didn't yet name Efrain Rios Montt here, though I had it changed a while ago. 1. Dead Ends (184,335) - 2. Day in the Death (184,165) +4 3. Bucket of Blood (182,455) -1 4. Deceased Hose (181,97) -1 5. The Love Boat (181,125) -1 6. To Kill a Gabor Sister (176,0225) +3 7. Dead Wait (175,325) -2 8. Still Life (173,195) -1 9. Wormer, he's a dead man!,.... (173,1425) -1 10. Ethnic Cleansing (171,54) +1 11. Drollercoaster (170,5125) -1 12. Pan Breed (166,5) +1 13. GUN Ami Brown (166,2425) +1 14. GUN Gabriele Grunewald (166,1025) +1 15. Poochie died on the way back to his home planet (165,4025) +1 16. The Living End (164,955) +1 17. Shaun of the Dead 69 (164,153) -5 18. Thomas Jefferson Survives (162,445) - 19. People who I think might die in 2018 United (161,243) -- 20. Heading Nowhere (161,0325) -- The differentials won this time with Jacqui Forster and Efrain Rios Montt. Tessa Jowell was also a differential for Sean, in that he was kind of the only who didn't pick her. I might decrease some scores of yet-to-die people once half of the year is over to reflect that time is running out, especially with Marieke Vervoort.

If anyone cares, if my calculated scoreboard assumes that Marieke Vervoort will survive the year with 100% probability, then Ethnic Cleansing moves into the lead. Pan Breed at 2nd.

They like to come to Berlin every once in a while.

I certainly would like at least the tiniest local notice for the Hare's

I certainly like the sound of "landmark".

Bessie's birthday is/was next month. Let's wait and see.

Meghan Markle's father supposedly had a heart attack six days ago, says TMZ, says The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/14/meghan-markles-father-will-not-attend-royal-wedding-report

Bessie Camm now also marked dead on the supercentenarian database (and Wikipedia): http://supercentenarian-research-foundation.org/TableE.aspx/ Edit: Actually, once you look on that page, you just see that she's nowhere to be found there, neither living nor dead.

Charlie Russell, canadian naturalist who lived among bears to show that they weren't aggressive, dead at 76: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/charlie-russell-naturalist-who-lived-among-bears-has-died-76-180969071/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Russell_(naturalist)

Answering my own question, on my long list I still have uuh.. Debra Saunders-White, a university president, Francis Cardinal George (re-googling it - wikipedia says it was bladder cancer), and then my own hit 9/11 first responder Ray Pfeifer (but the CNN obit says it was basically cancer everywhere) and a couple of names with kidney cancer on top of something else: Sitaram Panchal (with lung cancer), Paul Van Zandvliet (with brain tumour) and Salvatore Riina (with Parkinson's).

Michael C. Gross is possibly the best name in the last ....10 years or so? But upon quick googling, I read that it was a 30-year-long fight which he basically put an end to himself when he quit treatment. It's a slow cancer, I guess.