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Sorry, but how does this qualify for here? The man is not famous in any way whatsoever other than as yet another clickbait shitstirring piece of shyte from the Daily Mail. Unless I missed something. It's true, I don't know whether he is fearless, but he is definitely fat. And this thread is (or has become?) more about gloating at their weight, than about fame.... see Carl Thompson. It's the "famous for their illness" kind of fame. Edit: But yes, maybe I reduce the posting of these kinds of stories.

Les Price, 45, wants gastric surgery but the NHS doesn't pay for it because he isn't unwell enough, yet.... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3171003/Thirty-five-stone-man-hasn-t-worked-nine-years-fat-denied-NHS-weightloss-surgery-isn-t-unwell-enough.html

Gail Stephenson, important member of the Man U medical team has died: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/medical-expert-who-convinced-sir-6104616 She helped Paul Scholes with his eyesight problems and convinced Sir Alex Ferguson to change the colour of their kits.

Jeanette Cathy, widow of Chick-Fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy, is dead at 92: http://www.wtvm.com/story/29613285/widow-of-chick-fil-a-founder-passes-away Edit: I now see that WIkipedia has also listed her as a philantropist, as founder of the WinShape foundation, so she has a bit of fame on her own.

The health of Cissy Houston is too poor to allow her to travel: http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/whitney-houstons-mother-cissy-poorly-6118206 That article is refering to an already 4 days old other article in the US Weekly. Maybe Bobbi Kristina is actually dead already but for once, we don't get to know it before the funeral.

"poor health leads to early death"

As I said, the greatest threat to me living long is my consumption of sugary drinks and the likelihood of getting diabetes. So this article got my attention: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jul/21/sugary-drinks-may-cause-type-2-diabetes-regardless-of-size-research-says But then, there's a somewhat puzzling passage: "The Cambridge team, who have published their research in the British Medical Journal, say they cannot prove that too many sweetened drinks causes type 2 diabetes from the evidence they were able to gather. But, if one assumes causality,(...)" So yeah, we don't know if they cause diabetes, but let's assume they do and predict doom...

Christiane F. in the german news today for beating her dog, and then biting the hand of (and racially insulting) a witness: http://www.bild.de/regional/berlin/angriff/christiane-f-schlaegt-hund-und-beisst-zeugin-41875952.bild.html(link in german) I never knew how close to me she apparently lives. Just a couple of streets... Maybe I already saw her once unknowingly...

Funny. Just last week he was in Berlin and made headlines in the local papers here for standing almost completely naked on the balcony. I thought he was looking quite well there. But maybe he caught a cold this way.

Muhsin al-Fadhli, major al-Qaida figure, killed in an air strike in Syria: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/22/senior-al-qaida-figure-muhsin-al-fadhli-killed-in-us-airstrike-in-syria-officials-say He was the leader of the "Khorasan" group, veteran al-Qaida fighters sent from Pakistan to Syria to plot attacks on the west. He also had advance knowledge of 9/11.

So a gimme for any Rotten Dead Pool teams that start up in the next couple months, but too many factors against him for a likely appearance on any pools with a January starting date. You're probably right. Sounds more like 2-3 months left instead of the 5 months that the year has left. But then he receives congressional health care and your own team expires in the first half of December already. But if he makes it that far, and the year is already more than half over (feels somewhat scary to me this time...), he's a definite hit for all pools except the DDP, where the question of obitability arises.

Let's see: Michael Douglas "SAD LAST DAYS", 16th of April 2015, still alive Joan Kennedy "SAD LAST DAYS", 15th of April 2015, still alive Larry Fortensky "SAD LAST DAYS", 23rd of March 2015, still alive Joanne Woodward "SAD LAST DAYS", 21st of November 2014, still alive Zsa Zsa Gabor "SAD LAST DAYS", 9th of September 2014, still alive Jerry Lewis "THE END?", 19th of January 2015, still alive Olivia De Havilland "SAD LAST DAYS", 26th of September 2014, still alive Maureen O'Hara "SAD LAST DAYS", 15th of July 2014, still alive James Garner "SAD LAST DAYS", 28th of May 2014, DEAD 19th of July 2014! Jack Nicholson "THE LONELY WORLD OF... (includes "sad last days"), 2nd of February 2015, still alive Glen Campbell "Inside The Sad Last Days of...", 20th of June 2014, still alive Anna Nicole Smith's mother "DEATHBED PLEA", 26th of February 2015, still alive Billy Graham "SAD LAST DAYS", 20th of december 2013, still alive Mary Tyler Moore "THE AGONY OF...", 9th of March 2013, still alive Burt Reynolds "ON BORROWED TIME (...) SAD LAST DAYS", 17th of August 2012, still alive Andy Williams "SAD LAST DAYS", 5th of July 2012, DEAD 25th of September 2012! Don Rickles "SAD LAST DAYS", 27th of March 2013, still alive Robert Schuller "SAD LAST DAYS", 31st of December 2012, DEAD 2nd of April 2015! Nancy Reagan "SAD LAST DAYS", 5th of December 2012, still alive Jim Bakker "SAD LAST DAYS", 11th of January 2013, still alive Levon Helm "SAD LAST DAYS", 18th of April 2012, DEAD 19th of April 2012!!! Then the most relevant hits stop... Only that very last one is truly impressive. Two more are at least within 3 months. So that's three out of 21... Also, Mariah Carey's brother thinks she will die just like Whitney Houston: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3109625/Mariah-Carey-s-brother-fears-die-like-Whitney-Houston-claims-pop-star-addicted-alcohol-prescription-drugs.html That article turned up through the same web search for some reason...

Co-Founder and lawyer of the Red Army Faction, the german left-wing terrorist group of the 60s, 70s and 80s, Horst Mahler, is now in hospital because of a sepsis: http://www.pnn.de/brandenburg-berlin/989415/ (german link) The police does not expect him to leave the hospital alive and prepares for his death. They expect a lot of neo-nazis for his wake, because Mahler turned from left-wing radical to holocaust denying right-wing radical in the late 70s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Mahler (english wikipedia page)

Perfect. An hour ago I found their article on how the death of his mother has pushed Michael Douglas "into a tailspin": www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/michael-douglas-freaks-out-cancer-death-mom (I have to experiment with the way their pages are blocked for me.) This comes, of course, three months after the article on Michael Douglas's "tragic last days": www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/michael-douglas-tragic-last-days Edit: I have to experiment with the format for a while. This post is a work in progress.

You might have heard that the Toshiba leadership systematically inflated the profits of their company, so there are a couple of candidates for seppuku: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3169196/Toshiba-president-seven-bosses-resign-years-long-accounting-cover-systematically-inflated-profits-1-2BILLION.html

Louis Stokes, first black congressman from Ohio and Civil Rights fighter, has lung and brain cancer. Also, he's 90 years old: http://www.cleveland.com/naymik/index.ssf/2015/07/louis_stokes_diagnosed_with_lu.html

And while we're at it, Kyoko of experimental Japanese band OOIOO has died: http://pitchfork.com/news/60455-ooioos-kyoko-has-died/ Here is Don Ah:

Not a bad choice. Why isn't no one mentioning George Martin (Beatles producer)? He's pretty old and pretty high-profile... Every once in a while I check on him, but he seems to be doing ok.

Oh dear, well, I was instantly thinking of suicide, but apparently, it's not the case (for now).

Wow, the second big Krautrock death this year. And again, not someone who was just there, but a major figure. RIP... Edit: Fun fact, Dieter Moebius has an english Wikipedia page, but not a german one. Krautrock was always loved more by the international music scene than at home, with the exception of, maybe, La Düsseldorf. There's almost no overlap between the group of german pop stars famous at home and those famous abroad. Or does any english person know Helene Fischer?

A new interview with DDP favorite, centenarian actor Norman Lloyd: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/19/meet-hollywood-s-oldest-working-actor.html He's still doing ok, and has a role in the new comedy Trainwreck. Though he also likes to talk about how everything used to be better in the past.

It's strange that they don't mention his age or hardly any other details. Now you made me check. The Telegraph already published a "proper" obit a couple of days ago: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11746921/Nigel-Mackenzie-restaurateur-obituary.html But, the food section, for some reason, decided to write another one. Maybe they were annoyed at the spelling of the name of that pie.

Franz Ferdinand Nentwig, a teutonic tenor for Wagnerian opera, has died at 85: http://slippedisc.com/2015/07/domingos-german-cohort-has-died/

Nigel Mackenzie, inventor of the banoffee pie, has died: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/11750703/The-inventor-of-the-banoffee-pie-has-died.html

Fascinating. And the statistics confirm all the clichés. Smoke-filled jazz clubs lead to lung cancer, and rappers all shoot each other. Well, it's not quite that obvious because the 30,6% of cancer-related deaths in Jazz isn't all that different from the 24,7% in rock, but one can easily construct a fitting narrative. Edit: Also another related article linked from that one, is this one here: https://theconversation.com/the-27-club-is-a-myth-56-is-the-bum-note-for-musicians-33586 It's about the arbitrariness of the 27 Club, and that it would be more logical to make up a "56 Club". But just because the age of 56 is the one when musicians die most often, it still accounts for only 2,3% of all dying musicians, so picking random 56-year old musicians is a worse strategy than picking random U.S. males at age 71 (but better than random U.S. males at 70).