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Eh, I think Total Biscuit has probably "touched" more lives than, say, Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

John Bain's aka Total Biscuit's likely goodbye message: https://www.reddit.com/r/cynicalbritofficial/comments/8g4eoj/official_totalbiscuits_future/ I just couldn't get myself to pick him.

Hong Kong poet and Liu Xiaobo associate Meng Ling has terminal lung cancer: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2143965/hong-kong-poet-and-supporter-late-dissident-liu-xiaobo Question of days....

Congratulations, DI! How close it was in the end... I hope to improve my position this time. Edit: Also thank you Rad Phantom, well done!

@msc Ted Dabney - thanks, didn't know, great pick.

Also, I assume drol's name was Khalifa Haftar. Edit: As you can see, my list isn't too surprising. John McCain already too low - submitted one day too soon for the Australian scientist.

1. Matt Cappotelli 2. Stefan Karl Stefansson 3. Cornelia Frances 4. Leah Bracknell 5. George Bush Sr. 6. Hector Timerman 7. Tessa Jowell 8. John McCain 9. Sacheen Littlefeather 10. Herman Wouk 11. Denis Goldberg 12. Marieke Vervoort 13. Kulsoom Nawaz 14. Dilip Kumar 15. Bob Dole 16. Karolos Papoulias 17. Lindy Remigino 18. M Karunanidhi 19. George Alagiah 20. Lucia Hiriart 21. (ND Tiwari)

Even a Daily Mail obit, via AP Australia... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-5675895/Tributes-flow-Qlds-Terry-Mackenroth.html

Indeed, I assume it's early stage cancer. Edit: I should point out that have a bad feeling here for some reason.

Bonnie Raitt cancels a whole tour because of an unspecified health issue, "prognosis is good", "give me time to heal", etc... https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8412921/bonnie-raitt-cancels-tour-james-taylor-health-issue

What's so remarkable about this local painter?

Drowning you in suggestions: Vicky Phelan, young Irish woman with missed cancer, sneaky Mirror obit: https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/vicky-phelan-recalls-horrific-missed-12447912 Steve Dymond, aka "The NHS caused my cancer": http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43910567 Also note his article in QO source iNews... Lonnie Kilpatrick, Agent Orange victim: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5674567/Vietnam-vet-diagnosed-terminal-kidney-cancer-VA-denied-exposed-toxins.html

Shitty Robot Queen Simone Giertz has a brain tumour, big, but apparently benign: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/8g0clk/shitty_robot_queen_simone_giertz_i_have_a_brain/

Plans comeback with new pinup calendar: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/danniella-westbrook-slips-sheer-body-12452410 (I'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel today.)

Peter Gabriel cured the cancer of his wife with Google: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5674357/Singer-Peter-Gabriels-wife-recovered-tumours-size-MELONS-stem-cell-treatment.html

She thinks the ghost of her husband was cheering her on while she was enjoying a kiss recently: https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/linda-nolan-wont-cancer-stop-12453534

Ends his daily VLOG: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43950251 In the past weeks, he made videos about eating tide pods, heart-massaging a goldfish, and getting punched in the head by a friend.

The Dignitas clinic might be having a little marketing push, because Noel Conway is talking again right now: https://news.sky.com/story/i-cant-move-and-can-hardly-breathe-let-me-die-with-dignity-11288245 And there's also a Jersey woman named Roberta Tupper "threatening" to go there: https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2018/04/30/cruel-law-means-i-have-to-go-to-dignitas-to-die/

Rose Laurens, french singer known for the smash hit "Africa", dead at 65: https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2018/04/30/rose-laurens-est-morte-la-chanteuse-du-tube-africa-avait-65-ans_a_23423367/

Fast track to Dignitas: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/apr/30/david-goodall-australia-oldest-scientist-to-end-own-life-in-switzerland Edit: Obviously easiest deadpooling points ever - too bad I already submitted everything.

A question of days, and the plural form is stretching it. If he dies in May, there will have to be a special election this year.

I see they're featuring an artist I previously found on this list: https://www.theguardian.com/music/series/101-weirdest-records-on-spotify

The one I now assume it is, isn't either. I was just fearing that, because of the Italin origin of the rumour, it could be a well-liked celebrity, like Al Bano, or even Terence Hill.

85 years old today! (We need a pot-smoking avatar)

Hmm, maybe I've got it. If so, I decided against him, too. As long as it's not Al Bano...