gcreptile

I am on holidays over the next 16 days. I am only going to post when really important things happen, like today.

Logging in from mobile just to say RIP... for me personally, he wasnt as big as Bowie, but he is a cornerstone of Boomer culture auf as a personality, One of the defining people of the 20th century.

You win some, you lose some.... Rover and Out and me both picked Lady Saltoun and Lord Hapgood. On the other hand, I did not expect Arun Lal to be a unique pick, though of course, it's 'only' throat cancer.

Pelé sells everything so that his legacy can spread to other people, or something: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/may/31/pele-auctions-off-his-entire-football-history

Lady Susan Renouf

Announced on his gofundme page: https://www.gofundme.com/welovethomas Another $62,364 reasons not to donate to anyone's GoFundMe page created for medical reasons.I've only donated once and that was to a person I knew and who I shared a stage with once who needed funding to produce a new album and tour (sadly his tours never bring him by me). Oh and unless your country has some truly crazy laws, if a person dies their medical bills die with them. SirC There was this story that some of his cancer funds were stolen at one point. That was too fishy for me to pick him. A mistake, of course.

Kate Murtagh, 95 years old, american bit actress, but more famously, the woman on the front of Supertramp's Breakfast In America cover: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Murtagh

The "last Irish bishop to attend the Vatican II Council", Miles McKeon is dead at 97: http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/bishop-myles-mckeon-last-surviving-irish-bishop-to-attend-vatican-ii-1.2661887 Not THAT obitable, but the last surviving participants should be obit-worthy, like Luigi Bettazzi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Bettazzi Raymond Hunthausen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Hunthausen (interesting story, a feud with Benedict XVI) or Remi De Roo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remi_De_Roo

They are getting closer to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/27/inside-the-hunt-for-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi His death will probably ensure that the DDP goes to DDT this year. Though he's also the joker of my B-Team which will suddenly become a contender.

Dr. Harry Heimlich, inventor of the Heimlich maneouvre, uses it for the first time himself to save a life: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/27/dr-heimlich-performs-heimlich-manoeuvre-for-first-time-aged-96 Keep in mind, he's 96 years old! I think he looks 20, no, 30 years younger.

Drag racing legend Shirley Muldowney has a cancerous lung removed: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/05/25/drag-racing-legend-muldowney-having-cancerous-lung-removed/

The pancreatic cancer of US Representative Mark Takai has spread: http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2016/05/19/hawaii-congressman-mark-takai-wont-seek-re.html He will retire, which might significantly diminish his chances of a Daily Mail obit next year.

Philippine lung cancer sufferer Miriam Defensor Santiago now on medical leave: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/2016/05/24/santiago-end-senate-term-and-extend-medical-leave-475413

"Last of the great British eccentrics", Bill Gulliver MBE, marathon runner, charity fundraiser and poet, dead of leukemia at 80: http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/bill-gulliver-mbe-runner-fundraiser-11374973 He was the one on the right.

Now he's being treated for water on the brain: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/21/asia-pacific/thai-king-treated-water-brain/#.V0AZ2JGLSUk We've been there before...

DJ Fresh had two battles with thyroid cancer but is currently in remission: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/36333214/dj-fresh-reveals-hes-in-remission-after-having-an-operation-for-thyroid-cancer

gets a would-be qualifying obit, ha! http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/18/please-dont-vote-for-donald-trump-voting-pleas-in-obituaries-keep-going-viral

Internet celebrity Sexy Pancake dead of penile cancer: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3592896/Thai-transvestite-named-Sexy-Pancake-dies-cancer-caused-strapping-penis-photoshoots.html He said that the cancer was caused by taping his organ.

Eminent german-american historian Fritz Stern dead at 90: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/fritz-stern-prominent-history-academic-dead-age-90-39196533

According to Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds had an "amazing recovery" but is getting frail. Will Fisher's next project be Renyolds' last movie? http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/carrie-fisher-opens-mother-debbie-reynolds-frail-health/story?id=39195202

Dennis Hastert, who is now sort-of convicted of molesting boys, is in declining health and "suffered a catastrophic illness": http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-hastert-prison-20160427-story.html I think I wrote about him in the Suicidal celebs thread before, and he had a stroke a couple of months ago. But I'm too shy to create a thread for him.

Emilio Navaira, mexican master of the genre knows as Tejano, has died at 53: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/grammy-winning-tejano-star-emilio-navaira-passes-away/articleshow/52322992.cms He previously appeared on this forum in the "Ideas and Possibilities of 2009" thread.

Joe Jackson hospitalised with a high fever: http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/michael-jacksons-father-joe-hospitalised-8000295 Feels like bye bye to me.

Wow, excellent work.

Had a phone call with Trump, will meet him: https://politicalwire.com/2016/05/17/trump-to-meet-with-kissinger/