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Human maximum life expectancy has hit its limit: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/05/human-lifespan-has-hit-its-natural-limit-research-suggests

Challenge accepted!

If that applies today, then Spade could achieve that. All he needs to do is to get a hit for Errol Christie and Luke Halpin, and then he should find a depelch obit. I do object to this however. It can be seen as impossible to people finding 12 younger picks vs a guy with 20 older picks. Basically it used to prevent other from being able to have a chance on the title. The actual amount of bonus points is debatable, of course. Maybe 25pts...

The Generation Game shows me that I have become better at picking the old, neither unique nor universally popular picks. To make it count in the DDP, I'd like to suggest another bonus: 50 bonus points if your whole team, consisting of 20 people, dies. Edit: I call it the Yahtzee bonus.

Victim of obitability? I erred on the side of too little obitability this year and will probably take a different approach this time. The rule change has actually pushed ZsaZsa Gabor into my "statistical" Top 20 for 2017. I expected a rule change that would prohibit another Shameless, but now it will return. However, my turbulent life recently (both positive and negative) means that I do not have the same depth of research.

Incredible, I did not expect so many drop so fast.

My pick Karam Chand has died. Maybe it's the first test of the new obit rules.

Ah thanks... have to check it out

Grand Ole Opry matriarch Jean Shepard dead at 82: http://www.soundslikenashville.com/news/grand-ole-opry-member-jean-shepard-dead-at-82/

So I wondered what the .... is going on with Bruce Langhorne: http://acousticguitar.com/studio-guitar-legend-bruce-langhorne-is-the-real-mr-tambourine-man/ He is "too ill to walk along the beach", can't play guitar since his stroke in 2006, and gives an interview via telephone.

Has gastritis, another episode of bad health: http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/09/176204/myanmars-suu-kyi-ill-after-trip-us-uk

I guess Bhumbibol goes first, unless Donald Trump wins the presidency.

A replacement of my current DDP draft gone as well. There was a report (well, a couple of sentences in an article on some philantropic golf tourney) about his failing health a couple of weeks ago.

Hehe, I thought he was a typical DQSP pick, had him In my draft as well. The Reuters UK QO is already there. I had thought that a Guardian obit is assured as well.

Dural, leader of the band Buckwheat Zydeco and sometimes even appearing under that same name, dead: http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/2016/09/24/dural-leader-buckwheat-zydeco-passes-away/90910752/ One sneaky pick for 2017 gone.

He confesses he had pneunomia: http://liveforlivemusic.com/news/gregg-allman-reveals-reason-hospitalized/

Bob Marley's widow Rita with the latest of possibly several strokes, this one being the worst of them: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Rita-Marley-hospitalised

Noone deserves that....

Mia Farrow's son Thaddeus dead from a gunshot wound: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2016/09/21/mia-farrows-son-thaddeus-farrow-dies-after-car-accident/90812344/ Shortly before that, he had a car crash with severe injuries... that was probably the first attempt...

Yeah, "fresh" blood for the Drop 40 (hint...).

Me too. And you're a list person. With your birthday, you had NO choice.

Hillary Clinton opens the hunt for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/23/hillary-clinton-national-security-plan-isis-baghdadi (Will they get her first?)

There is so little going on in the world of death that the Guardian is giving a front page obit to DJ Spank -Spank. https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/sep/22/rip-dj-spank-spank-phuture-earl-smith-jr-acid-house

So far, it's the only source, but in multiple languages. Let's see...

Happy Birthday! Edit: So, you're a Virgo, like me. Virgos like to catalogue and order everything. No wonder we post as many obits as we do.