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Putin aide Mikhail Lesin found dead in US hotel: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34754590 He was a press minister and occasional media mogul whose suidden wealth raised questions.

Now a second terminally ill guy wants a screening.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/star-wars-the-force-awakens/reddit-terminally-ill-british-fan-screening-disney/

I see no reason to pick Burt except for the feeling that someone with his vita usually doesn't make it to 80.

Roy Dommett, creator of the UK nuclear arsenal during the Cold War and avid Morris Dancer, has died at 82: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11980063/Roy-Dommett-rocket-scientist-obituary.html If I had known about him, I would have included him in the HPDP for the Morris dancing bonus. I also picked Phil Rudd there just for the drummer bonus.

Henry Krystal, the psychologist who coined the term "survivor guilt" has died at 90, already back in October: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11977806/Henry-Krystal-psychiatrist-obituary.html So many good people die, yet I continue living...

They're surviving without him, mind. A cynical prediction: he'll conveniently hover in the medical twilight zone where his fitness to appear in court is always under threat whilst his hold on life stays up there with the likes of Ernest Saunders. Probably. Though I wonder how strongly the arm of American justice lingers in the background here. There something similar going on here in Germany regarding the decision to award the WC 2006 to us. The responsible people are tearing each other apart in the press at the moment. They're selling out each other in the hope of escaping justice.

"Under medical observation for stress": http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/nov/06/sepp-blatter-stress-fifa He can't live without FIFA...

'Fundraiser and charity leader' sounds like code for 'famous for being sick' like Lauren Hill. DISALLOWED lol SC To her credit (or mine?), she was already fundraising before she got sick, for the Alzheimer's society. Maybe a first brush with breast cancer made her then fundraise for that? I don't know, though she died of a different cancer. According to http://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/13/publicsectorcareers.voluntarysectorshe was a fundraiser for 20 years already. Ah well, let's see if the Guardian obit appears within a couple of days. I thought I might have a new Denise Marshall here.

Poland's former interior minister Czeslaw Kiszczak is dead at 90: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/05/us-poland-kiszczak-idUSKCN0SU2VQ20151105#grG4xFhc6xuOLOIG.97 He was involved in introducing martial law in Poland in the last decade of communism and cracked down on Solidarnosc. Just this year, he received a suspended 2-year prison sentence for that. At the end of the communist regime, he realized that his side had lost and was a transitional PM and negotiated with the opposition and Lech Walesa.

Liz Monks, fundraiser and charity leader dies of cancer at 45 or 46. I had her in my preliminary 2016 team, but maybe her doubtful obitability consoles me in the end: https://www.fundraising.co.uk/2015/11/05/obituary-liz-monks-fundraiser-and-charity-leader/

Joey Spaminato, bass player for veteran live act NRBQ has some kind of cancer that requires him to undergo all kinds of harsh treatment: https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2015/11/04/fans-rally-arounf-nrbq-bass-player-joey-spampinato-battles-cancer/7dm350vr5xVVFvE3Lg9VKK/story.html

Eminent german historian Hans Mommsen is dead at 85: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/hans-mommsen-ist-tot-a-1061374.html(link in german) He was a researcher of national socialsim and the great-grandson of historian Theodor Mommsen who received the Nobel Prize of Literatur in 1902 for his historic works. Mommsen's brother was also a historian. And they are all dead now.

Some source other than the National Enquirer talking about Ali's health: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/muhammad-ali-health-deteriorating-manager-article-1.2424317 I'd put him on the Death List, just a feeling.

Ah yes, or Justin Bieber (crack addict), Jennifer Lawrence (obesity?), Adele (even more obese) or Beyoncé (Hepatitis C). Gosh, I wish I were as obese as Jennifer Lawrence! Ah yes, or Justin Bieber (crack addict), Jennifer Lawrence (obesity?), Adele (even more obese) or Beyoncé (Hepatitis C). Jennifer Lawrence is obese?????? Fat girls didn't look like that when I was single! Ah good, the trolling is already working! (I was joking, but Jennifer Lawrence has talked several times about she is slightly less skinny than her colleagues. And some critics even complained that she should have looked 'more hungry' for her Hunger Games role.)

Yes, very hard to know for a new member, but there is the "The Next Piper At The Gates of Dawn" thread. It sort of became the official prog thread, but it is hard to know.

Will Chelsea Clinton's 1-year old son run for Congress in 2040? http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bush-clinton-dynasty-buzz-looks-past-jeb-chelsea-to-baby-charlotte-george-p./article/2575254

You got the wrong link mate. Grrrr, here's a better one: http://myfox8.com/2015/09/22/howard-coble-in-intensive-care-unit-at-hospital/ Howard Coble now dead: http://abc11.com/1067438/

Former guitarist for The Del Fuegos, Adam Roth, diagnosed with stage 4 bile duct cancer, now going for alternative medicine because traditional medicine offers no help anymore: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/blog/2015/11/03/adam-roth-cancer-fundraiser/ In spite of his solo and TV work, probably not obitable for the DDP, I'd say, but for other competitions...

Australian jockey Tim Bell, 22, dies after a fall: http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/04/tim-bell-dies-fall-singapore-flat Edit: Eh, sorry Dr.T, but then, I was first with Judy Cassab.

Ah yes, or Justin Bieber (crack addict), Jennifer Lawrence (obesity?), Adele (even more obese) or Beyoncé (Hepatitis C).

BBC have just announced Tom Graveney's death. I'll check for a link. There ya go. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/34716024 Grave news for that family.

I'd like to have more knowledge about those cases whose tumours just don't progess - see also Valerie Harper. But I guess that comes with time. Wilko Johnson was a different case. He had to choose whether to undergo a radical operation with just 15% chance of survival. He was lucky: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/10/wilko-johnson-interview-ive-got-a-future

Billy Graham 'probably' didn't write his last book: http://religiondispatches.org/billy-graham-is-probably-not-the-author-of-his-own-final-chapter/ Of course, I have said it before - and all his sermons that you find by Google News aren't his either, they're ghostwritten. Edit: Apparently, he has had hydrocephalus for years... just like the king of Thailand has had. Great, two people on my team with hydrocephalus that just won't die...

Does Sultan Qaboos of Oman suffer from colon cancer? A diplomatic source says so. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/omans-qaboos-rare-public-appearance-state-tv-181156376.html#40FPbWB

Judy Cassab, Holocaust survivor and famous Australian painter, dies at 95: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/nov/03/judy-cassab-australian-artist-and-holocaust-survivor-dies-aged-95