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Frank Schäffer, member of Borussia Mönchengladbach's golden generation dead at 72: https://www.kicker.de/fuenf-titel-in-neun-jahren-gladbach-trauert-um-schaeffer-1068651/artikel Three german championships, two UEFA cups.

I DO want to update my philosopher list which is somewhere on this forum eventually...

I assume they gave him the "offer" to have the surgery and become a Putin supporter or refuse and ..either die or have the surgery refused, meaning, the balcony jump might actually have been suicide. Either way, there was somebody else in his room when it happened.

Supposedly, he has cancer. I don't even believe it's true - or at least exaggerated. But I still believe that he'll escape most of the punishment "naturally". And he's 83 years old. Australia just had a similar case with swimming coach Dick Caine. Now, Dick Caine was already too sick for trial 2023, but only died in 2024. Still, Alan Jones in 2025, is kind of likely, in my opinion.

"Australia's Rush Limbaugh" Alan Jones arrested for preying on young men in his positions of power: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx27v4v1l5wo Occasionally mentioned here for his many illnesses.

Are you even an archeologist when the things you dig out of the ground were dropped during your lifetime?

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

Third BBC article about somebody with cancer today. Darren Gleeson, Irish championship winning hurler: https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/cx284x78rxzo Edit: I assumed Irish rugby/hurling can go here, too. Hope it's not too wrong.

Okay..... I will be in the United States in the next two weeks and will be back on Dec 3rd. The 2025 thread will be opened after my return, please be patient. So let's have an update before I leave! Once more, I try to catch all the names by mainly going back through time. The most recent hit is Yuriko, the Princess Mikasa. A member of the japanese imperial house, she was one of the people who symbolize a 'last connection' to a different era. The last member of her generation, and the last member of the house to be born during the reign of Emperor Taisho. Perhaps and The Immortal score. Next one is Timothy West, a unique (!) hit for Sod's Law. The almost unthinkable happened and he died before his dementia-ridden wife. Let's hope Prunella Scales' dementia is so far advanced she doesn't realize Timothy's death. Sod's law indeed... Further back in time is the death of June Spencer, British radio soap icon for many decades. Probably one of the oldest people ever to get that immediate BBC obit. A hit for quite a few people in this competition. Next up is the alleged murder of Suzy Lamplugh, John Cannan. Well, he did serve prison time for other crimes as well, including at least one different murder. But he was only mentioned on Wikipedia in relation to the Lamplugh case, two years ago. I checked that back when he was diagnosed with cancer, but I see that he has since "gained" his own page. Well, there you go. Two people, BuffaloPhil and Imelda kept the faith and were rewarded by luck, because it was not cancer that eventually killed Cannan. Nobody picked Quincy Jones (!). But many, many players picked Janey Godley. For some, her cancer battle was an attention-seeking, possibly exaggerated moment, but for many others, it was a battle that they knew would end rather sooner than later. And the end came pretty fast for the sort-of stand-up comedian. Next up is Teri Garr, a hit for six players. Her screen career started with a little assist from Jack Nicholson, got pushed by a first big role in Star Trek and then grew through her comedic talent into an Oscar nomination. After that, as was usual before the age of streaming, her career then declined back to TV roles (today, a TV/streaming role could actually be the real peak of your career). Well, she kind of had a second career as the deadpooler's go-to pick for multiple sclerosis. She did live quite long with it though. Then we get to Phil Lesh.... no! He wasn't picked, so I can't make the joke of writing an obituary for him than just goes on and on and on and meanders, like one of the Grateful Dead's concerts. Ah well, going through wikipedia, the not picked people are a theme this time, no Mitzi Gaynor, no Yahya Sinwar, more miss than hit in this update, unfortunately. Philip Zimbardo however was a unique hit for Charles De Gaulle, congratulations and thank you for that. Also, thank you Mr. Zimbardo for creating the meme-like Stanford prison experiment that probably inspired dozens of movies and Star Trek episodes. Now I've heard that the experiment itself was unethical, or done wrong, but maybe that's where scientific truth and wishful reality don't go together? Well, maybe there'll be a Netflix documentary on it eventually (somebody telling me there is in 3,2,1...). Next hit then is Tylee Craft, college football player from North Carolina. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer and a well-publicised battle with it for over two years. News were alternatively positive and negative. Yet, the 100 points made the gamble worth it for Banana and Cpt. Chorizo. So yeah, two out of three best-placed players picked him. Not me, however. So as a consequence, it does look like the likely winner of this competition will be one of the two players who picked Craft. After here, I am unfortunately getting a little tired - preparations for the trip today, and such, so in short fashion, we have Ethel Kennedy and Lily Ebert. Holocaust survivor Ebert was a unique hit for Lady Fiona, who also had a hit with Mrs. Kennedy. Kennedy was a far more popular pick though. So, did I miss anyone? ... double-checking ... oh dear, yes, Geoff Capes. Pedro67 scores a unique hit with the strongman, shot-put champion and Olympic competitor who died at 74 - almost the average life expectancy, something the musclemen rarely achieve. ...Aaand Cissy Houston is a hit for Toast and The Quim Reaper. Thank you DDP fatality list. Houston herself had a decent career as an RnB/spiritual singer but was made definitely obitable by her daughter. Now all deadpooling attention for that family will be focussing on her cousin Leontyne Price. So I hope I did it all right and this is the scoreboard: Rank Team Score 1 Cpt. Chorizo 1337 2 Banana 1299 3 gcreptile 1217 4 Book 1126 5 wannamaker 1102 6 RadGuy 1090 7 msc 1082 8 Perhaps 1041 9 Funeralopolis 1025 10 Summer in Transilvania 961 11 Salmon Mousse 950 12 Mr. Wonderful 923 13 Buffalo Phil 880 14 Toast 827 15 Liz Lemon 821 16 The Immortal 810 17 Torva Messor 785 18 Pedro67 765 19 The Unknown Man 758 20 tracy 745 21 An Fear Beag 731 22 Wormfarmer 729 23 The old lady 694 24 Thatcher 681 25 Etushipushingupdaisies 663 26 Baby Blue 661 27 MariNisia 648 28 Imelda 626 29 Predictor 615 30 Death Impends 607 31 DeathBecomesThem 601 32 Cpt. Hemlock 583 33 Lady Fiona 565 34 Charles De Gaulle 552 35 Caleb H 537 36 TQR 526 37 ThereWillBeDeaths7 516 38 The Old Crem 504 39 The Daredevil 497 40 John Key 485 41 arghton 473 42 Sean 469 43 Diego 457 44 Yorkshire Banker 404 45 Bibliogryphon 398 46 Annami 390 47 Young Willz 352 48 Great Uncle Bulgaria 279 49 Hell 240 50 chileanway 225 51 Sod's Law 202 52 Gooseberry Crumble 59 Can Banana pull another rabbit out of his hat or is this the 2nd win of this deadpool for Cpt Chorizo? 6 weeks are left and the necessary 38 pts could almost come from anywhere. One additional note: Unfortunately, I just saw that I previously had assigned points to RadGuy for Irish cook Joe Shannon. But since Shannon hasn't received a QO, I sadly have to take them back...

There's no recent death or news item to create this thread, but there are a couple of really old, really rich people worth watching: Warren Buffett, 83, 4th richest person alive, has been in the news for choosing his successor at Berkshire Hathaway. Charles and David Koch, 78 and 74, 6th richest people alive, CEOs of Koch Industries, have massively funded conservative politicians in favor of fossil fuels. Bernie Ecclestone, 83, under corruption charges and threatened as boss of Formula 1 racing. George Soros, 83, 26th richest person alive, massive supporter of The Democratic Party, doesn't look too healthy but there are no bad news so far. Ingvar Kamprad, 88, Founder of IKEA, very secretive. DEAD Sheldon Adelson, 80, Las Vegas casino magnate, another guy who spends millions of dollars on politicians to ensure that society will go on in a way he thinks is best even after his death Karl Albrecht, 94, 23rd richest person alive, Germany's richest guy and co-founder of ALDI, his brother died last year. When will it be his turn? DEAD Liliane Bettencourt, 91, 11th richest person alive and richest french person, owner of L'Oreal, was involved in a corruption scandal and legal trouble with her daughter. DEAD Also worth watching: The Walton Family, owners of Wal-Mart and maybe even Bill Gates who is still only 58, but looks much older, in my opinion.

Ah, I misunderstood Biblio's post on the 1st. Not Spade's 2nd unique, but the game's.

So Spade_Cooley only lost out on the win because of one other player also picking Sinfield...as close as possible!

Very nice, season 3! I'm also very partial to "What year is this?".

And it wasn't even cancer that killed him but a ruptured aneurysm: https://www.peeblesshirenews.com/news/national/24726153.murderer-john-cannan-died-prison-ruptured-aneurysm-inquest-hears/

One of my few remaining, living personal heroes. Should he go on the DeathList would he need a new thread? I was just going through the internet, looking for a suitable subtitle. It has to be "Now it's dark" from Blue Velvet.

It had to happen... Thread for right-wing conspiracy "theorist" and the Rush Limbaugh of Generation X, Alex Jones. He's looked like 50 or older for a couple years now, but is only 48 years old. Looks like a walking heart attack and is being litigated into bankruptcy. Also, the contents of his phone have accidentally been leaked to the January 6th commission. My nr. 1 candidate for faking his death in the near future.

These diamond shapes are very vagina-coded, or maybe I watched too many Björk videos (go to 1:00):

A state of "general weakness": https://www.lepoint.fr/politique/jean-marie-le-pen-hospitalise-a-la-suite-d-un-etat-de-faiblesse-general-13-11-2024-2575200_20.php#11 Sounds like the time has come?

Aww, now I'm sad I'll be in the USA at the same time.

K-drama actor Song Jae-lim dead from apparent suicide at only 39: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14072597/song-jae-lim-dies-kdrama-body-home-note-found.html Looks like the K-pop suicides are spreading to the acting world.

I mean, you can't be punished for a successful suicide.... The article says that if a law were to be passed, the first death would still be 2-3 years away. But I guess only very few people here believe she can make it to 2026.

Celebrity yoga instructor Sharath Jois dies at 53: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14072673/celebrity-yoga-guru-sharath-jois-taught-madonna-gwyneth-paltrow-dies-suddenly-aged-53.html Among his clients were Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow and Sting. He died suddenly while being on tour in Virginia.

Update on Olivia Williams' neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/10/watch-out-im-even-less-inhibited-olivia-williams-on-movies-misogyny-and-living-with-cancer They cut out the primary tumour and she has a third of a functioning pancreas left. The problem is that she regularly gets metastasis in the liver, so far only there, and they have to "zap" these again and again.

Indeed, he probably hasnt. And so he lost touch with the people, because he missed them going Trump again. He must be tired and doesn't have another fight in him.

That's a different show: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schitt's_Creek