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Has Joe Exotic's cancer spread to his lungs? https://www.tag24.com/entertainment/celebrities/is-tiger-king-joe-exotics-cancer-back-3168149

I got tired of always thinking about where to put the activists, so here's a thread for them: First entry: Feminist Sheila Michaels, who spread the title "Ms." dead at 78 from leukemia: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/09/sheila-michaels-feminist-helped-change-the-world-with-ms-title-for-women http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40528950 I guess you can also put your anti-rape campaigners, black lives matter-folks, and Ralph Nader in here. Edit: Link fixed

Super-centenarian Vincent Dransfield in suspiciously good health at 110: https://www.today.com/health/men-s-health/110-year-old-man-drives-car-rcna148538 Looks like has at least (!) a couple of years left. Edit: Maybe this belongs in World's Oldest.....

Scottish comedienne who seems fairly prominent in certain circles. She had ovarian cancer, beat it, but then it came back. It's stage 3 and she says that it can be treated but not cured. So it's now being called "terminal". Like Jonnie Irwin, she seems fairly open about it all. Today's update is, "she wants to go out with a bang": https://nz.news.yahoo.com/janey-godley-terminal-125229998.html

My pick Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, former president of Mauretania is supposedly "gravely ill", and being treated badly in prison, which sets a "bad precedent for other african leaders". But I havent yet got proof that he's in hospital: https://pointschauds.info/mauritanie-me-cire-cledor-ly-lex-president-mohamed-ould-abdel-aziz-est-gravement-malade-et-prive-de-son-droit-a-la-vie/

She has to appear in court in 11 cases against her on July 29. She wasn't at court today because of poor health: https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/court/344576/khaleda-zia-s-appearance-in-11-cases-on-july-29

This year, there already died more people from selfies than from shark attacks, twelve, to be precise: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/11881900/More-people-have-died-by-taking-selfies-this-year-than-by-shark-attacks.html And just this week, a japanese tourist died by falling from Taj Mahal by taking a selfie: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34287655 Last month, a man died in Spain by taking a selfie with an approaching bull: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/man-taking-selfie-gored-death-6225812 It seems that some moments are so precious that they are worth dying for. The alternative would be that these people are simply careless, vain people who have forgotten their common sense because for them, there is no life outside of their electronic device, take your pick...

Agreed, he's got two... months.

Leeway was a New York-based underground metal band in the 80s who made a couple of well-regarded albums but didn't quite break into the mainstream. Eddie Sutton was their frontman and had been suffering from cancer for quite a while. Banana was quickest to note the eventual downturn two days before the hospice news hit the public - and this forum. This advantage gives him unique joker points which puts Annami in need of two more hits. Perhaps 3-0 theoldlady GuyFromFuture 3-3 Hell DeathByArsenic 3-0 arghton wannamaker 3-7 MariNisia Banana 8-3 Annami CalebH 0-3 msc DevonDeathTrip 7-0 SirCreep max_bossetti 11-3 Cpt. Hemlock Edit: Let's put up a video of theirs - of one of their recent reunions/comebacks:

Welcome to the next itineration of everybody's favourite obsessive-compulsive disorder, the DeathList Cup is back. We say goodbye to our previous host Spade_Cooley who hosted the game for two years and impressed us with his incredibly broad knowledge and ability to find a quip for every claim to fame, from pop culture to lesbian authors. Thanks a lot! The new management is me, gcreptile, who has decided to not defend the title and focus instead on being the most impartial, perfectly objective host possible. This means that the title is up for grabs, and, provided JoeyRuss also maintains his retirement, the winners of the past three years will not be competing. So if you want to add your name to the Hall of Fame, consisting of deadsox, DevonDeathTrip, An Fear Beag, Spade_Cooley, JoeyRuss and myself (x2), or if you want to add a second title to your name, this is the grand opportunity. These are the rules: The Deathlist Cup   1. This is a knockout tournament featuring one-on-one matchups between Deathlist forum posters. These matches will be determined by use of a random draw, using Random.org.   2. Unless we happen to end up with 2/4/8/16/32/64 entrants, then certain competitors will get byes to the Second Round. This will be based on results from the 2023 Cup: ie, winners first. 3. Please specify your wish to participate until the end of January 20th by posting in this thread, so that we can determine what the first draw looks like and if there are byes. 4. Players have a 10 day period of submitting their teams. For the first round, if you have not received a "bye", please send me your team by PM between January, 22nd and January 31st. the end of the month. For February, submissions open on February, 20th. The time zone is Greenwich mean time (GMT) in every case. 5. Your team has to consist of 11 main picks and three subs, so a perfect team would look like this 1. Adam Ant (joker) 2. Bob Backlund 3. Chelsea Clinton 4. Didier Drogba 5. Erika Eleniak 6. Frank Field 7. Green Gartside  8. Harry Hill  9. Ilias Iliadis (gold medal winner in the men's 81kg judo at the 2004 Olympics) 10. Joe Jackson 11. Kevin Keegan subs 12. Lennox Lewis 13. Meghan McCain 14. Nick Nolte Please explain who some of your more obscure selections are, should googling them not lead to an easy result. 4. Banned picks – we will have slightly higher fame requirements than before, matching my own perception of a slightly higher fame barrier in the DDP. Examples: - "Influencers": A minimum follower count of 100.000 in any one medium - "fame by association": Fringe and family of famous people will only be accepted if society has already been thoroughly aware of their existence, for better or worse (like Amy Price). - local fame: If the fame is "too local", they will not be allowed. High school coaches will not be allowed, "popular bar owners/traffic guides/etc..." will not be allowed, "town originals" will not be allowed. The notability has to extend somewhat beyond their own backyard. We will still allow college football coaches/players, elected politicians at every level, and no-name artists if their work can claim some recognition beyond their hometown. - "Awareness raisers"/"Cancer mums": Only those with nationwide impact will be allowed => I'll try to aim for something slightly higher than before, but still lower than the DDP  5. If in doubt, submit a pick, but the decision of the ref (me) is final and is not open to any court of appeal. If you think it’s a dodgy pick, it probably is. 6. Each match will take place over the course of a single month. For example, a February match would take place from February 1st to February 28th, a March match from March 1st to March 31st and so on... 7. Games will be scored in the following manner: A person in your team dies = 3 points A unique person in your team dies = 1 more point (ie 1 bonus point) Fatality – Your joker. Double points  9. Here is what happens in the case of a team member dying prematurely (ie on 29th Feb for the March game). If you discover this before the 3rd of the month, your top sub will automatically go into place. If it is discovered on the 3rd or after, sorry about your luck. If it turns out the person was dead and known to be (this is determined via a reference in a newspaper or magazine, not social media) then subs don’t come into play. This will upset at least one player a year. Will it lead to a huffy forum stormout in 2024? Let's see. 10. At the end of the month, the player in the match with the highest score wins that game, and will advance to the next round. The player who doesn’t have the highest score will lose, and be eliminated. 11. In the event of a draw, the following tiebreaks will be used:   1st tiebreak = number of hits 2nd tiebreak = average age of hits 3rd tiebreak = a coin toss   12. A player is only held to one team for a single match. If they win their match and advance to the next round, they may pick eleven entirely different people for the next round. In this way, folk who announce their terminal illness in, say, May, can be put to good dead pooling use. 13. Qualifying obits? Every single English-language newspaper, magazine or significant website, provided that they are not automatically generated by AI. Also Le Monde, Le Figaro, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, El Pais, El Mundo and Corriere Della Sera. If they still can't get a QO from that, then they really weren't famous. 14. For the removal of any doubt, any players who do not send in their team before the deadline will be DQ'd and replaced by the highest scoring loser. No matter how many sad PMs you send afterwards.  This draw takes place in Month 1 (ie January) and is for matches taking place in Month 2 (February). After the draw, each player sends me (via PM) a team of eleven celebrities (and some subs hopefully) they think will snuff it in Month 2.   Good luck and sign up to take part in this thread. Entries close by January 21 with the draw to take place immediately after.

Update, 2nd part: So, I am continuing to work my way back into the past, next one is Frederic Mitterrand, nephew of Francois, and so, the 2nd french "relative of a president" who was also a little notable on their own. Frederic was a former minister of culture and is a hit for therewillbedeaths7. Next one is M. Emmet Walsh, a unique hit for Tracy. Walsh was a reliable side actor on the big and small screen. Probably one of the biggest "I know the face" guys around. Malachy McCourt is a hit for two players, Etushipushingupdaisies and SalmonMousse. Also a relative of a maybe more famous person, McCourt was a well-known but not super-famous writer, but also a well-known but not super-famous actor. He was also the Green Party candidate for New York Governor, so you see, he was a little bit of everything. While initially, he entered hospice for ill health, he recovered and was thrown out again. But then, his recovery couldn't last forever. Next up is Charlie Bird, the significant British reporter with the direct IRA connections. He was willing to go where nobody else went - including several jobs in war areas - and thus, his battle with ALS was widely covered, and exploited in this game. Okay, that's for the DDP hits, as far as I can tell. Do we have any other hits? Well, I see CalebH had KM Peyton - who however died in 2023 and has to be replaced with 1st sub Jimmy Carter. Joe Shannon was a pick for several players, but did not receive a QO - so yes, this does seem to be it. Quite a few names were missed, like OJ Simpson, for example, or Walid Daqqa. The new scoreboard shows Perhaps losing the lead to Banana and Cpt. Chorizo because of missing out on Charlie Bird. Perhaps still has his joker back in hand though, but.. ahem... it's only Jimmy Carter, who isn't dying anyway.... Rank Team Score 1 Banana 643 2 Cpt. Chorizo 613 3 Perhaps 611 4 gcreptile 564 5 RadGuy 546 6 Funeralopolis 542 7 wannamaker 522 8 Book 483 9 msc 471 10 Toast 449 11 tracy 425 12 The Immortal 386 13 Summer in Transilvania 380 14 Pedro67 376 15 Baby Blue 375 16 Mr. Wonderful 372 17 ThereWillBeDeaths7 363 18 Salmon Mousse 358 19 Etushipushingupdaisies 356 20 DeathBecomesThem 345 21 Caleb H 338 22 Death Impends 335 23 MariNisia 331 24 The Unknown Man 293 25 Buffalo Phil 277 26 Cpt. Hemlock 276 27 The old lady 268 28 An Fear Beag 252 29 Imelda 234 30 Liz Lemon 230 31 Lady Fiona 224 32 Yorkshire Banker 217 33 Charles De Gaulle 215 34 Thatcher 213 35 Bibliogryphon 203 36 The Old Crem 202 37 John Key 201 38 The Daredevil 198 39 Predictor 183 40 Diego 161 41 TQR 153 42 Wormfarmer 140 43 Sean 128 44 Annami 120 45 Torva Messor 111 46 Sod's Law 76 47 Great Uncle Bulgaria 73 47 Young Willz 73 49 arghton 67 50 Gooseberry Crumble 31 51 Hell 23 51 chileanway 23

Hello Everyone, here we are again. Time for a new round, are you up for it? Do you think we can ever surpass the score record of 1838 by DevonDeathTrip in the Death By Numbers of 2016? Well, I guess it's time you try! The general rules: Send me 50 main team names by pm or just post them in this thread, if you want, from now on until Dec 31st 2023, 23:59 GMT. You can choose one joker who gives you double points. Submission form: Just give them in the normal "First name", "Last name" format Please don't number them, don't give any added data, like birthdays. And only note their claim to fame if there might be confusion, for example: Simon Cowell (plastic surgery victim) Simon Cowell (wildlife conservator) The scoring is [year of birth] - 1900 = score. So someone born in 2001 will get 101 points in case of death You may submit the following people: living, not knowing their precise date of death (by execution, dignitas, or whatever), at least 18 years old on January 1st, 2023, and being somewhat notable. "Somewhat notable" means: they should at least be notable for something else aside from being terminally ill. "Something else" being something that has an effect on society. Terminally ill activists are okay if they've done at least something generally beneficial, a nationwide campaign, a more than just self-published book, or a notable court case. If they're only in the news because of their tragedy or because they need our sympathy I will not accept them. So no "cancer mums with cancer kids", no "terminally ill fans", no "ordinary person in a coma because of a car crash". This also counts for brothers/sisters/children of notable people - unless they are so notable that every relative is also notable by default, like the House of Windsor, or maybe the Bush family. Unfortunately, it is me who will decide if the person is famous enough. Previous BBC coverage will usually convince me. Also, please, no football player in a non-professional league, who is totally obiting only because of tragedy, and not because the club just so happens to also have a wikipedia page - or any other name that kind of exploits the rules, like Dave Marsh. Anybody that gets rejected in the DDP would also be rejected here! Sometimes maybe after the game even starts. However: "Oldest Person of XYZ" will always be allowed - even a completely irrelevant person (in the grand scheme of things) will be accepted if they are the oldest person of their country, or last survivor of World War II, Korean War, etc... Usually those people do not give many points, but maybe 5 pts is better than zero? Often, they are also of a certain "historic relevance", you know President Tyler's grandson, and such. Anyway, I will allow them. You can submit up to 10 substitutes. It was a little stressful for me to ask for substitutions in case of disqualifications. So, if you think that some of your names stretch the fame definition, just put in some more subs. I will make use of them automatically. Once you have submitted your team, it's the final submission. Substitution phase: Up until the beginning of the 1st of July 2024 GMT you may switch 5 old people still alive for 5 new ones for whom all the above rules also apply. You can make use of the 5 substitutions whenever you like, until July starts. But once you decide to switch out picks, they cannot score anymore. And the new names cant score before 1st of July, so ideally you'd want to keep that window as small as possible, but we know that life sometimes gets in the way. When is a hit a hit: If the person permanently dies in 2024 (GMT!) and their death gets noticed in written form by qualifying media outlets within 2024 or the first seven days of 2025. The QO rules are: Everything accepted by the Derby Dead Pool 2024 plus The New York Times. Your host: I will also submit a team and will do so below before Christmas and hide the names with "XXXXX XXXXX" and reveal them on January 1st. Main reason for not already submitting right now is that I want to avoid the situation of 2019, when I ran out of subs and then filled the gaps with "new" names. I will also make use of the substitution window, but only use 2 names. After all, there's always a pretty broad consensus of a couple of names (example 2019: Ivan Milat, Michael Sleggs, Tom Long), so I wouldn't steal anyone's names by picking those who are universally known anyway. Also, I will substitute comfortably before the end of the deadline, so you can see my two names. I will not read your submission emails until January 1st (I think you can check that) to prevent the impression that I might take a name from your posts for other deadpools. So if I'm unsure about a name of yours, I will talk to you in the first week of January. If you post your team right in this thread, you save me some work but also give away names. If you pm me, please make sure that I know what the mail is about in the header "Death By Numbers", "Team submission" or something like that. If you have other questions, you can also ask in this thread! Players: gcreptile Baby Blue Lady Fiona Caleb H The Immortal ThereWillBeDeaths7 Yorkshire Banker Diego DeathBecomesThem Imelda The Unknown Man Hell The old lady John Key Charles De Gaulle TQR arghton Cpt. Hemlock Bibliogryphon Great Uncle Bulgaria Thatcher Death Impends Gooseberry Crumble Young Willz Liz Lemon RadGuy Book The Old Crem Predictor msc Etushipushingupdaisies Toast Sod's Law Torva Messor The Daredevil Mr. Wonderful MariNisia chileanway Salmon Mousse Banana Perhaps Cpt. Chorizo An Fear Beag wannamaker Buffalo Phil Sean Funeralopolis Wormfarmer Pedro67 tracy Summer in Transilvania Annami

Another german with sepsis, conductor Justus Frantz: https://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/stars/id_100389552/star-dirigent-justus-frantz-schwebte-nach-sepsis-in-lebensgefahr.html Already had him as an Idea for 2019 after another "I nearly died" episode:

He says he might die this year: https://metro.co.uk/2024/04/17/james-whale-worries-might-not-make-end-year-amid-terminal-cancer-20669039/ Still, I seem to recall that he said the same thing about a past christmas.

I've just made a draft. I have to think about submitting it before or during my holidays.

Have to follow up on my post. Payne Jr. is not a state Rep, but a US Rep, so actually quite important as the Dems might have a chance to capture the speakership.

Thanks Toast, I like it.

Things seem to have calmed down a lot. As a reminder: These will be the potential matchup's in the next round: Perhaps or theoldlady vs. GuyFromFuture or Hell DeathByArsenic or arghton vs. wannamaker or MariNisia Banana or Annami vs. CalebH or msc DevonDeathTrip or SirCreep vs. max_bossetti or Cpt. Hemlock This weekend I will delete the old private messages to prepare for the next round. Please submit your teams from Sunday on. PLEASE RESPOND IN A NEW MESSAGE. Also, I will be in Italy from the 26th to 1st of May. So I'll have to resort to writing down the names manually, or I will save the email notifications that I get with a new private message. Probably the latter. I'll try to, but I might not be readily available in these final days of April. So try to send me a team with all eventualities, for example, a 2nd joker choice in case the first one dies too soon, etc....

It is time, don't you think? However, I think this will be one of two updates, as it's getting late, but I should get something done. Let us begin with.... ah yes, Iris Apfel. The fashion designer proved, much like Baddie Winkle, that if you're old, colourful clothing makes you famous. It is something I aspire to follow. The colours shall not match and the eyes shall hurt. She was a hit for two people, including Torva Messor who also scored with Don Murray, the Oscar-nominated Hollywood actor with an extremely long career. Next one is Cpt. Hemlock's unique hit of Bill Jorgensen. Who was that.... a longtime local New York anchorman. He got a New York Times obit which might soon, i.e. next year, be the only local obit source left standing. But you know, there's an exploit for any rule. And I love New York.... Next one is astronaut Tom Stafford - popular pick because of his hospitalization in late 2023. I've written a few words on him in the Cup thread. Next up is Louis Gossett Jr., a hit for three teams. He'd been suffering from prostate cancer for a while. That, and his death, didn't keep him from appearing in four yet-to-be-released projects. He was a prolific actor, up until and seemingly even after his death. Now we get to Torva Messor's third hit in this update, postmodernist novelist John Barth. I have never read him, and he seems to write books that can be appreciated but not really liked - because they're more an experience than a story. Oh, and why not go ahead with Torva's hit number four as written above, Robert MacNeil. He was an esteemed Canadian journalist whose career really began with a bang when he accompanied John F. Kennedy during the ill-fated motorcade ride. He also worked for the BBC later on. Now, the fifth name Torva mentioned, Josip Manolic, does not seem to have received an obit yet. He got the Washington Post yesterday, but not yet the New York Times. Okay, and now that we've gone through Torva's unique hits, lets go back to Cpt. Hemlock's unique hits, specifically baseball coach and player Whitey Herzog. He was a World series champion as coach, not as player, seems to have done better there. Akebono Taro is a unique hit for ThereWillBeDeaths7. The star sumo wrestler had been suffering from ill health for many years, and it was simply a question of time when his early death would arrive. Now, in spite of their immense body weight sumo ringers don't seem to be THAT susceptible to ill health. He was quite exceptional though in his stature and his health problems. Banana scores a unique hit with college baseball trainer Pete Wilk. He had been suffering from glioblastoma and got a yahoo obit. Next we come to Joe Kinnear, hit for two teams. I read that he was an Irishman who cursed a lot - a bit redundant. The defender spent most of his career at Tottenham where he won a couple of European trophies. A managerial career followed. Then we get to Clarence "Frogman" Henry, a unique hit for Death Impends. One of those black musical pioneers you think they died in the 70s or something. Not many people are still alive who had hits in the 1950s.... Yorkshire Banker scores with Lynne Reid Banks. The childrens' and young adult author had two massive hits with "The Indian in the Cupboard" and "The L-shaped Room". Two teams score with Philippe De Gaulle, Diego and The Daredevil. The french admiral was the son of Charles De Gaulle and "keeper of the flame", because he looked so much like his father, that people thought he had to be kind of the same person - or something like that. Okay, let us remain at that. These are the publicly posted hits, and the DDP hits from now on back to 1st of April - which means, yes, the whole of March is still in need of updating. The 2nd half of this update will come later! Some patience please, it'll happen soon. Rank Team Score 1 Perhaps 611 2 Banana 594 3 Cpt. Chorizo 564 4 RadGuy 497 5 Funeralopolis 493 6 Book 483 7 wannamaker 473 8 gcreptile 466 9 Toast 449 10 msc 422 11 tracy 390 12 The Immortal 386 13 Summer in Transilvania 380 14 Pedro67 376 15 Baby Blue 375 16 Mr. Wonderful 372 17 Etushipushingupdaisies 356 18 DeathBecomesThem 345 19 Caleb H 338 20 Death Impends 335 21 MariNisia 331 22 ThereWillBeDeaths7 316 23 Salmon Mousse 309 24 The Unknown Man 293 25 Buffalo Phil 277 26 Cpt. Hemlock 276 27 The old lady 268 28 Liz Lemon 230 29 Lady Fiona 224 30 Yorkshire Banker 217 31 Charles De Gaulle 215 32 Thatcher 213 33 Bibliogryphon 203 33 An Fear Beag 203 35 The Old Crem 202 36 John Key 201 37 The Daredevil 198 38 Imelda 185 39 Diego 161 40 TQR 153 41 Wormfarmer 140 42 Predictor 134 43 Sean 128 44 Annami 120 45 Torva Messor 111 46 Sod's Law 76 47 Great Uncle Bulgaria 73 47 Young Willz 73 49 arghton 67 50 Gooseberry Crumble 31 51 Hell 23 51 chileanway 23

US state Rep Donald Payne still unconscious 10 days after a heart attack: https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/17/democratic-lawmaker-is-still-unconscious/

RIP Dick...

Reddit thread with photo, him going to the gym: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/ddZxYcHrFL Building and maintaining muscle is very important at high age. I'll attempt the same.

Kate Beckinsale leaves hospital after several weeks (I must have posted it somewhere, but where???): https://metro.co.uk/2024/04/17/kate-beckinsale-finally-leaves-hospital-hints-health-issues-20663914/ "Tummy issues" but supposedly not endometriosis or a ruptured ovarian cyst that she had previously been suffering from in 2019.

Jenna Jameson divorced for a 3rd time after a relapse of alcoholism: https://m.bild.de/unterhaltung/stars-und-leute/porno-ikone-jenna-jameson-scheidung-nach-alkohol-rueckfall-661f6825373a356eb220e238 https://www.tmz.com/2024/04/16/jenna-jameson-wife-jessi-lawless-files-divorce-year-marriage/

Conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi shows up in good health at a concert: https://slippedisc.com/2024/04/a-rare-concert-sighting-of-christoph-von-dohnanyi/ He's 94 years old now and must have recovered well from that health crisis a couple of years ago - also mentioned in the article.