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Robot Wars creator and Hollywood model builder Marc Thorpe dead after a long fight with Parkinson's: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/celebrities/24851872/marc-thorpe-dead-robot-wars-star/

That one was 10 days old when posted. Here's another cancellation from today, for light flu symptoms: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/papst-franziskus-sagt-audienz-ab-a-420a46cc-fe18-4916-a2cb-282720eea745

We had threads for Shimon Peres and Ariel Scharon before anybody complains. Olmert isnt quite as big of a name though, it's true. He strikes me as as someone who reaches 90 though. In spite of the prostate cancer and his prison stint that was cut short after "chest pains". Edit: One more remark: Ehud Barak is actually older.

Another "I should be dead" piece: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ozzy-osbourne-says-should-died-31515851 He has back surgery planned in the near future. He says he's "battling through" after his more recent health challenges.

A relatively vague Interview with Paul Auster, vague on the things we really want to know: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/18/paul-auster-on-cancer-connection-and-the-fallacy-of-closure

Alex Khadavi, "controversial" plastic surgeon to the stars, dead of liver cancer at 50: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12781009/amp/Alex-Khadavi-controversial-celebrity-plastic-surgeon-dies-aged-50-battle-stage-four-liver-cancer.html Here it comes... Khadavi is now a cadaver

Oh, there will be more hits! Okay, one or two.

One of the Paul Watsons is dead now, the documentary maker: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/20/pioneering-documentary-maker-and-father-of-reality-tv-paul-watson-dies-aged-81 (Wrong thread, but good reference)

Pete Sampras.......'s wife And what you all said

Jiro Ono

Well done, Yvonne!

Here's the working link:

Oh they're just trolling us. Wasn't she already on something that could be called hospice care? Is anything actually changing?

Paul Burrell has been given the all-clear: https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/breaking-emotional-paul-burrell-gives-31451763

I find it "interesting" how the return of Israel/Palestine issues has thrown the recent foreign policy re-alignment into disorder. The old conflicts on the left have returned, after they've united almost uniformly behind supporting Ukraine. And on the right, the anti-establishment forces, the anti-EU, anti-USA, tacit pro-Russia people are being forced to support the pro-Israel position even though it's also the position of the Biden and EU governments.

MTV comedian Rip Micheals is hospitalised after a heart attack. His remaining heart function is at 17% and he is surrounded by personell of the "heart failure" unit. Not one for very long, I think. https://nypost.com/2023/11/15/entertainment/rip-micheals-of-wild-n-out-hospitalized-due-to-heart-attack/

Hospice because of intestinal blockage: https://www.jayski.com/2023/11/15/ken-squier-enters-hospice-care/

IF he makes it, the committee should be bold and put him at no. 1. Jimmy Carter isn't dying anyway

Gina Lollobrigida, the fierce Italian actress, with a diverse range of additional interests, turns 90 today: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gina-lollobrigida-90th-birthday-reignites-feud-sophia-loren-1018579 Future Deathlist entry?

Denis Law please

Some of these names sound like discarded George Lucas characters... Driss Guiga?

They could have a whole cabinet of former Prime Ministers. I hear John Mayor is in good shape.

And Karel Schwarzenberg is dead, aged 85: https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000194826/frueherer-tschechischer-aussenminister-karel-schwarzenberg-gestorben

Just to support this string of conversation, the Guardian just had a "20 best songs of Yoko Ono" ranking: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/nov/09/yoko-ono-her-20-greatest-songs-ranked No. 1 is the song "Mind Train" that I once posted on here, too.

The singularity will be coming before 2031: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a45780855/when-will-the-singularity-happen/ Singularity = AI breaks free from human control.