Sean

My team: 1)Erica Garner 2)Carmen Franco 3)Marieke Vervoot 4) Rayya Elias 5)Patrick Cryne 6)John McCain 7)Olivia Newton John 8) Tessa Jowell 9)Peter Lorimer 10)Kamala Subs: 1)Kirk Douglas 2)Billy Graham

Tim Healy looks and sounds worse than ever in tonight's still open all hours.Hard to believe he is only 65.Looks older than David Jason and Geoffrey Whitehead.

Shaun King posted on Twitter that Erica has limited brain function and is critical but isn't brain dead.Not that he is renowned for telling the truth:p

Pretty much..Garner's only hope of seeing 2018 is if the family try and pull off a Terri Shaivo or Charlie Gard and challenge the Doctors.Franco is less clear cut.After all deathbed scenarios can take a while such as King Michael of Romania Sara Coward Erroll Christie etc.Vervoot must be close to the end now.Maybe she will want to see in the new year with champagne before she goes.

These two cases are why won't send my Ddp team yet. I also worry about Vervoot making 2018.

I reckon Stan and the rest of the 95s and over on DL 2017 will be carried over into next year's list.I reckon Doris Day is due to make another appearance on DL 2018 too.

When Joni had a stroke 2 years ago it made the news here in Britain.She is a big name but is not that well known amongst youngsters except for both sides now being prominent in love actually.

1)Rayya Elias 2)Alberto Fujimori 3)Matt Capotelli 4)Marieke Vervoot 5) Fernando Ricksen

My Joker is already decided for all 3 teams though.They are all pretty obvious.

Still haven't sent in my teams.I am really going for it this year in the hope of getting in the top 10.I am busy on the 31st so will enter on the 30th.As I am taking it more seriously I don't want to enter too early in case a A list celeb not only my radarannounces they have stage 4 pancreatic cancer and are planning to end their life in their digital hospital bed after ringing in the new year with a glass of champagne.

He strikes me as being a James Avery /Richard Griffiths type who drops dead from heart disease.Plus he can hardly walk due to arthritis meaning he can't exercise enough to lose enough weight for knee surgery.

What?

My 2018 team: 1)Amy Price (Joker) 2)Johnny Ruffo 3) Johnny Clegg 4) Lord Henry Mountcharles 5)Vera Lynn 6)Billy Graham 7)Sheila Mercier 8)Diana Athill 9)Leslie Philips 10)Ronnie Wood 11)Larry King 12)Paul O'Grady 13)Mazie Hirono 14) William Frankland 15)Mary Wilson 16)Clarissa Eden 17)Tessa Jowell 18)Linda Nolan 19)Freddie Starr 20)Robert Mugabe 21)Prince Philip 22)George H W Bush 23)Nile Rodgers 24)Denis Norden 25)Olivia de Havilland Reserves: 1)Joni Mitchell 2)Tim Curry 3)Ray Davies 4)Dave Davies 5)Jeanne Little

Just entered my team.Hoping this once great game is given new life under new leadership.

Just sent in my team.

Hole sounded terrible in a save the children ad recently.

50 DeathListy names I don't expect to see 2019 and why 1)John McCain (b 1936)Former Gop candidate has stage 4 glioblastoma and is reported to have a second tumour.Already missing votes due to treatment taking its toll.Has lost weight is in a wheelchair now.Was also unable to take his coat off on the view.A big name and big chance of mortality. 2)Olivia Newton -John(b 1948) The breast cancer she beat in 1992 is back and has metastasis to her spine.Takes pot to deal with excruciating pain.A household name across the world and clearly on her way out. 3)Linda Nolan (b 1959) Similar to ONJ except the breast cancer has spread to her hip causing a fall earlier this year. 4)Tessa Jowell (b 1947) New Labour Cabinet minister with a high grade brain tumour.Has lost some hair and took time out of the house of Lords. 5)Peter Lorimer (b 1946) Footballer who in July was in hospital with brain cancer.Big name in UK and has not been seen or quoted in public for months.Ominous. 6)Liam Miller (b 1981) Premier League Footballer with pancreatic cancer who has had experimental treatment in Us. 7)Marieke Vervoot(b 1979) Very successful Belgium paralympian with a rare genetic condition actively planning her euthanasia.Nearly blind paralysed from the breast downwards and in horrendous pain.Would be good for Dl to get its first assisted suicide hit. 8)Fernando Ricksen (b 1976) Dutch Football player known for playing for Rangers reportedly near the end of a 4 year struggle with Als. 9)Dean Francis (b 1974) Boxer with stage 4 bowel cancer given 3_6 months in January.Struggling with chemo 10)Charlotte Rae (b 1926) American actress with bone cancer who has got frailer in last few months.Previously had pancreatic cancer in 2009.92 in April. 11)Dilip Kumar (b 1922) 95 year old Indian actor with a long history of health issues.Looks very frail. 12)Diana Athill (b 1917) renowned British autobiographical writer and editor.Just turned 100 and is in a care home.Diagnosed with kidney cancer a few years ago as well as other health concerns.Also expressed wish not too live too much longer. 13)Sheila Mercier (b 1919) Soap actress turns 99 on new years day.Has had arthritis for years and lost her brother and son in last year. 14)Monica Vitti (b 1931) Italian actress who has had dementia for over 20 years and not been heard about for years. 15)Stefan Karl Stefannson (b 1975) Iceland actor known across the world as the villainous Robbie Rotten in Lazy Town.Has a cult following. 16)Barbara Bush (b 1925) ailing US first lady on oxygen. 17)John Hume (b 1937) Nobel Prize Winning Irish politician.Has Alzheimers dating back to the late 1990's. 18)Robert Fyfe (b 1925) Scottish actor reportedly very frail after bowel cancer surgery. 19)William Franklin (b 1912) Scientist who popularised the pollen count and was Alexander Flemming's assistant. 20)Morgan Tsvangirai (b 1952) Former Zimbabwean Pm with aggressive colon cancer. 21)Vini Reilly (b 1953) Durutti column lead.long history of mental illness has had 3 strokes and regularly wishes he was dead on Facebook. 22)Mark E Smith (b 1957) Lead singer of the fall.Has looked I'll for years and keeps cancelling concerts for breathing and nasal problems.Also pictured in a wheelchair. 23)Nile Rodgers (b 1952) Music legend who has had kidney cancer and aggressive prostate cancer in last few years.Kidney cancer was comprised of two types. 24)Martin Peters (b 1943) England football legend.Has advanced Alzheimers diagnosed in 2013. 25)Ray Wilson (b 1934) Another England Football legend with dementia.Diagnosed in 2004. 26)Joanne Woodward (b 1930) Oscar winning American actress with advanced Alzheimers.Cant remember husband Paul Newman allegedly. 27)Stirling Moss (b 1929) British racing driver.Spent 5 months in hospital and reportedly very frail. 28)Roger Bannister (b 1929) British runner with parkinsonism diagnosed in 2011. 29)Robbie Coltrane (b 1950) Morbidly obese Scottish actor with worn out joints. 30)Bernard Lewis (b 1916) Renowned historian.102 in May. 31)Gerd Muller.(b 1945) German Footballer advanced Alzheimers. 32)Trevor Peacock (b 1931) English actor with advanced Alzheimers. 33)Val Kilmer (b 1959) American actor.Had throat cancer for two years.Looks very ill. 34)Douglas Hurd (b 1930) Former British home secretary.Had stroke a few years ago and reportedly in ill health. 35)Stevie Chalmers (b 1935) Scottish Footballer.Alzheimers. 36)Billy McNeill (b 1940) Scottish Footballer.Lost speech to dementia. 37)Dennis Hamstert (b 1942)Former American politician.Diabetes. 38)Willford Brimley (b 1934) Diabetes. 39)Kamala (b 1950) American wrestler late stage advanced diabetes. 40)Gunter von Hagens (b 1945) The guy who makes artwork out of corpses.Parkinsons 41)Stan Bowles (b 1948) English Footballer advanced Alzheimers. 42)Billy Connelly (b 1942) Scottish Comedian.Parkinsons. had prostate cancer. 43)Terry Jones (b 1942) Monty Python. Dementia and had bowel cancer 44)June Whitfield (b 1925) English comic actress. In care home. 45)June Brown (b1927) Chainsmoker British actress. 46)Neil Simon(b 1927) American playwright.Advanced Alzheimers. 47)Freddie Starr (b 1943) English comedian obesity chain smoker with mental illness and advanced heart disease. 48)Larry King (b 1933) Heart disease and lung cancer survivor. 49)Ronnie Wood.(b 1947) Lung damage and lung cancer.Former alcohol and drug abuse. 50)Glynis John's(b 1923) English actress allegedly in nursing home. Honorable mentions: Vanessa Redgrave Prince Henri Mazie Hirono Ric Flair Kenneth Kaunda Lee Teng_Hui Carol Channing Mary Wilson baroness Wilson Clarissa Eden Wolfgang Bosbach Paul Madeley Jose Jose Bill Macy Carol Channing Hugh Downs Barbara Walters Tim Curry Joni Mitchell Bernard Tapie Peter Bonetti Mikhail Gorbachev Joan Plowright Fanella Fielding Ken Dodd Sidney Poitier Carl Reiner Baroness Trumpington Bernard Tapie Liam Neeson.

Now that Zsa Zsa Gabor Clive Dunn and Ronnie Biggs are gone BG is the closest survivor despite all odds candidate that no one can quite believe is still going.

This was BG over 3 years ago.

More the fact that he has been housebound for years has had more chronic illnesses than I can remember and I remember me and my friends not believing he was still alive when he came up in a history lesson a few years ago.Aside from his stroke and general old age Kirk is in fantastic shape for 101. of course he should be on the list until death but Billy is by all accounts objectively much frailer.

is it time to give him the number 1 spot on the DL?

I would not be completely shocked but surprised still.

Definitely one of the keepers for next year.

The guy spent his career covering warfare.Hardly boring.

I doubt you will find any.All the names bar 1 habe been mentioned at least once on this site and the one that hasn't is in their 70s