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Yes, on New Years Eve, that is, after the Deathrace deadline, an article about him made use of the word 'recovery': http://www.racer.com/north-american-racing/item/124867-american-racing-legend-adamowicz-fighting-brain-cancer Instead of days, he might well have weeks or months left. Probably not years though. Adamowicz is DI's (i.e. the current Deathrace leader's) joker, could be significant, eh? I like to think that for the Deathrace you basically only need 5-6 "locks". If they die within the first month, you've won. The other 14-15 picks can be gambles. So if one of your gambles turns out to be a dud, it's no biggie. But then I would have thought that Adamowicz would be a lock (didn't make him my joker by coincidnece), and that might be significant, because otherwise Death Impends would be the big favourite to win at this point, needing only Adamowicz and a second hit to win. Without him, DI, DDT and SC all still need three hits to win, with all the "walking corpses" already dead. And if Adamowicz is a dud, it reduces the potential of the teams who picked him by a 20th. So Sir Creep and me are similarly slighty disadvantaged. Hmm... I guess that makes DDT the statistical favorite at this point. Yeah, woops. Thought the early Dec update on him meant Adamowicz was fading away and would've only made 2016 by a nose if he made it. Though tbh I still think Bruce Langhorne and Monty Brinson (both of whom I'm the only one to pick in the Deathrace) are likely gone by the month's end, so I'd need another on top of that but my hopes aren't dashed quite yet. Honestly, I could not imagine that there was any different way that statement could have been interpreted than the way you and I did.

Bad luck there with Delpech, having fellow frenchmen Boulez and Concorde test pilot die in the same week. But then they also made space for Courrèges (spelling?). Well, I guess there's still a realistic chance that his death gets a one-sentence mention in the usually generous coverage of the Isle of Wight festival in June.

Ok...hmmm ... Joey Feek this week, Ronald Mulkearns this month. Martin Crowe or René Angelil. I guess Angelil is about a month or two away from death. Martin Crowe, hard to know... Caslavska has been looking worse in every new picture. Kris Travis is the same... Ok, which of these four has been chosen the least? Caslavska, it is.

Daily Mail Obit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3392954/Florence-King-writer-known-sharp-wit-dies-80.html The Daily Mail now pretty much copy/pastes everything from AP, UK relationship be damned, I guess. The only exception I can think of at the moment, was university president John Schlegel, a hit for Sir Creep and me in Shaun's Deadpool last year. Now we're coming to a point where random American or even latin american celebrity xyz has a better chance of obiting than local UK celebrities or ..ahem... Michel Delpech.

Hmm, indeed, if I had to guess, I'd say the rumours back in 2010 were right and he had it before. Then, when it returned, it was terminal and so he made this last album as a final statement, full of allusions to death. The liver can still work at 10% functionality, wasn't it? So it makes sense that he could keep going for quite a while with cancer, and then basically collapsed within a couple of days as the liver function abruptly stopped. They say he had already collapsed at the premiere of his Lazarus video. And the director of the video Ivo van Hove said that "I knew that it was the last time I'd seen Bowie alive". http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/01/shock-and-condolences-as-netherlands-reacts-to-david-bowies-death

One of the main Berlin newspapers just reposted their 2002 interview of Bowie about his Berlin days. He talked about wanting to meet Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream again. Froese, of course, died last year aged 70. And that reminds me that Iggy Pop surely doesn't have much time left. 68 now, so maybe 1-2 years?

By the way, first verse of the final song of his final abum: I know something is very wrong The pulse returns for prodigal sons The blackout's hearts with flowered news With skull designs upon my shoes Now with hindsight, he literally said that he was a walking man with terminal illness and a heart problem. There were a couple of other hints, especially in the song Lazarus, the final video, which, as we know NOW, was meant to be taken literally, i.e. Bowie is literally on his dying bed. Well, well.. at Lou Reed's death I said that we're entering now the time when the big ones die away. Our modern celebrity culture began with the Beatles or maybe Elvis Presley. Well... Lennon and Presley died unnatural deaths. George Harrison only slightly premature. But Reed at 70, Lemmy at 70, Bowie at 69... The hits will keep on coming. I know Keith RIchards is a vegan now, and Ozzy Osbourne has some genetic mutation, but what about Jagger, Plant/Page, Townsend and so on and on...

Going through this thread...there were rumours of liver cancer a while ago. On the other hand, they say that his cancer fight officially lasted 18 months. But could it be that he actually had it, beat it, and then it returned?

As a huge Bowie fan, I wanted to resurrect his thread on his birthday, then thought it would be post-whoring. His new album had a couple of ominous signs that I wanted to mention then, never believed it was a signal of something THAT immediate though.

My favorite artist. Huge personal influence, I might not even be living in Berlin right now if it wasn't for him. I will have to chew on this one for quite a while. Thank you for the music... and the other stuff..

No way! I am completely devastated. Beyond words...

Second hit for my terminal illness fame theme team: Kelly Morris http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brave-mum-who-miracle-baby-7152412

About Rose Marie, yes to RadGuy and DeathImpends. The last picture I saw of her was not looking good. She's old and there's been no real news about her for 2 years. Also she was on Hollywood Squares and I feel somewhat confident in those old and silent picks since I've had success with Jin Youzhi in this competition last year. I was looking for some person to die roughly February/March with some bonus potential. So, no inside information, just another gamble.

Yes, on New Years Eve, that is, after the Deathrace deadline, an article about him made use of the word 'recovery': http://www.racer.com/north-american-racing/item/124867-american-racing-legend-adamowicz-fighting-brain-cancer Instead of days, he might well have weeks or months left. Probably not years though. Adamowicz is DI's (i.e. the current Deathrace leader's) joker, could be significant, eh? I like to think that for the Deathrace you basically only need 5-6 "locks". If they die within the first month, you've won. The other 14-15 picks can be gambles. So if one of your gambles turns out to be a dud, it's no biggie. But then I would have thought that Adamowicz would be a lock (didn't make him my joker by coincidnece), and that might be significant, because otherwise Death Impends would be the big favourite to win at this point, needing only Adamowicz and a second hit to win. Without him, DI, DDT and SC all still need three hits to win, with all the "walking corpses" already dead. And if Adamowicz is a dud, it reduces the potential of the teams who picked him by a 20th. So Sir Creep and me are similarly slighty disadvantaged. Hmm... I guess that makes DDT the statistical favorite at this point.

Another weird yahoo uk sports obit for Michel Delpech in french, this time about his funeral: https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/video/michel-delpech-inhum%C3%A9-%C3%A0-paris-193800625.html To be honest, it was probably the right decision to exclude yahoo, judging by their standards of journalistic rigour. But Delpech might be the first victim of the new rules. I guess, I'll let Spade do the work of finding an indirect obit, as he's probably got more skin in the game and he needs the obit to stay ahead of DDT.

Yes, on New Years Eve, that is, after the Deathrace deadline, an article about him made use of the word 'recovery': http://www.racer.com/north-american-racing/item/124867-american-racing-legend-adamowicz-fighting-brain-cancer Instead of days, he might well have weeks or months left. Probably not years though.

The Saudi situation has become very interesting and will get even more interesting. Iran has basically beaten Saudi Arabia in the diplomatic game. Oil prices are collapsing. The House of Saud is unstable. Saudi Arabia bombs Yemen to deflect from its own internal struggles, and Iran, with the help from Bush Jr. bombing away Saddam Hussein, has gained a huge influence in Iraq, building a bridge to Syria and Lebanon. There is unrest among the Shiites in eastern Saudi Arabia and Iran is on a reconciliation course with Iraq. Plus, there is the matter of Saudi Arabai indirectly supporting or even creating ISIS. Geopolitically, Saudi Arabia might have seen the most significant changes among all countries in 2015, only rivaled by the Ukraine.

I voted for Schmidt. It was a head vs heart decision, my heart said Mr.Spock.

I believe this will be a heavy year for "indirect" obits. Not just Andrew Smith, but also the Australian bishops Geoffrey Robinson and Ronald Mulkearns, whose deaths will be mentioned during the ongoing child abuse trial. Similarly, Gary Haggarty, probably. And it's slowly looking like Michel Delpech will also need one to count, most reasonably during the Isle of Wight festival in June.

So apparently, they caught "El Chapo", alive! http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/el-chapo-captured-mexican-president-says-1.2729452

English opera singer Marion Studholme, from the days when Opera was still a more egalitarian enjoyment, dead at 85: http://slippedisc.com/2016/01/a-wonderful-english-opera-singer-has-died/

Ah, the competition is too strong. Too many good picks in other teams. She might die in February but the game might be over before that.

There was another life sign of dancer Alice Barker in late 2015, can't believe she's still alive:

Dicey obit of the year Andrew Smith readmitted to hospital on Wednesday, family asks for prayers: http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2016/01/06/andrew-smith-back-hospital-amid-plea-prayers/78372206/

Ah ok, no problem. I didn't really look at the background of the show and just assumed that such a jack-of-all-trades like Harrington Jr. would have done some miming in that context. Edit: I didn't even know that there's a specific english meaning to the word. The more you learn...