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Legendary Hall of Fame player Hal Greer dead at 81 after a brief illness: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2018/04/16/hall-famer-philadelphia-76-ers-legend-hal-greer-dies-81/519969002/

Ugh...grim... not one for long. I had a short time hesitating putting him on my team when some headline said that he has a maximum of five years to live (five years is a long time in deadpooling...). But the headline was a bit contradicted by the article, and well, my prejudice is that wrestlers don't life healthily enough to stall it.

Went through it yesterday. 15 deaths still sounds good. The Bushes, McCain, Bracknell, Jowell, Moss, Dole, Wouk - that's 11. Stirling Moss in bad health, Jill Gascoine in late-stage Alzheimer's, plus a few random deaths - Douglas? Norden?

Hawai'i had "Kayla" in the early 2000s. I was waiting for Hayley, or Kayley, or even Kay-Lee or something like that. Edit: Questions nobody ever asked: Was the switch from Jennifer to Jessica in 1985 inspired by David Lynch's "Dune"?

I still give her some time before her lungs fail (I imagine a horrible death). Maybe a particularly hot summer day?

A small tumour in his lungs - needs to be observed every four months: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/peru-s-pardoned-fujimori-says-has-tumour--denies-political-comeback-10115088

Joe Lynn Turner apparently had a heart attack in Belarus: http://loudwire.com/joe-lynn-turner-hospitalized-belarus-heart-issue/ Edit: I've also just realized that his stint in Deep Purple really wasn't the most remarkable...

Apparently an Italian (drol?) is now updating the Wikipedia page "Deaths of 2018"....

Now it has filled up, but April 9th is still only at 6 notable deaths. I don't count the racehorse. Everything below 7 is a record.

Kenyan elephant conservationist and future Last Word protagonist Daphne Sheldrick dead at 83: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43757716

Vojislav Seselj once again not in court because he's fighting cancer... https://news.sky.com/story/proud-serbian-war-criminal-vojislav-seselj-has-acquittal-overturned-11326540

Sues his ex-manager: http://www.tmz.com/2018/04/13/stan-lee-sues-former-business-manager-forged-checks/

Yes, especially if they lost the fight....these losers.

I've started to dislike how people "open up" about cancer, secrets, etc....

Alejandro Jodorowsky looks and sounds pretty well for 89: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXJYniQg5zM Probably quite a few years left.

Update on DI's pick Bruce Lietzke: https://m.panews.com/2018/04/10/bob-west-on-golf-lietzke-encounters-setback-in-battle-with-brain-cancer/ He did better after surgery but now there are some worrying developments.

Well done!

I think not. Garn (Poochie) missed it by one month (Barys Kit). My last game will/would end with 7/10 sometime this week.

Amy Mattingly is a hit for me here. Edit: She was born in 1985, I believe. Her just giving handle was amy-mattingly85: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/amy-mattingly85 It's in line with her age at time of death, 32: https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/5969204/amy-mattingly-bowel-cancer-campaigner-dies-final-wish/

Australian academic David Goodall turns 104 and his only wish is to die: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-04/david-goodall-is-104-but-takes-no-pleasure-in-getting-older/9614344 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Goodall

Well, this was a test run. Now I know how low the fame level can go....

Google leads me to believe that Nicole Flood (Rockhampton cancer mum) died on march 26th. But the Google link only goes to an obitary notice search machine.

Putting this here, for those still in the game: http://www.fosters.com/news/20180411/former-rochester-mayor-fighting-stage-4-cancer

Unless that message is years old, then it's his second fight with kidney cancer. He had it years ago already.