Thoughts On The 2024 List

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Next year will be an avalanche of female hits: Woodward, Scales, Marcos, Redgrave, Laine, Flack.

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6 hours ago, bfc said:

Next year will be an avalanche of female hits: Woodward, Scales, Marcos, Redgrave, Laine, Flack.

Many others as well that I feel could make it a big hitter year.  For Men as well.  But then who is to say.. There are plenty of people that I would have bet the farm that were not going to survive 2024, and yet here we are within days of them reaching 2025.

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7 hours ago, livingbygrace said:

Many others as well that I feel could make it a big hitter year.  For Men as well.  But then who is to say.. There are plenty of people that I would have bet the farm that were not going to survive 2024, and yet here we are within days of them reaching 2025.

There's still time....

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18 hours ago, arghton said:

Norman Tebbit - Heart problems, in a motorized wheelchair, ghoulish.

 

That isn't really an update more of a character description

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On 05/12/2024 at 16:57, arghton said:

Seem quite ill:

Carter - We all know at this point.

DVD - Said to be rapidly declining in September (but has made appearances since). Possibly suffers from some condition you usually have at nearly 99.

Pete Murray - Looked horrible with purpleish arms and bandages on hands many years ago. Now doing better, somehow?

Alan Greenspan - No appearances in more than a year. Seems to have had a hard decline, but that was some time ago.

Pope Francis - Recurring pneumonia, rumored cancer, tons of health problems. Feels indestructible.

Cleo Laine - Has looked horrible for years.

Sandy Gall - Looked unrecognizable in 2021. Last appearance anywhere in 2022, AFAIK.

Noam Chomsky - Massive stroke last summer. Paralyzed and probably tubefed.

Robert Wagner - COPD and 94. Would be an amazing pick in normal circumstances.

Dennis Skinner - Cancer survivor, major heart problems, falls and allegedly dementia.

Nigel Starmer-Smith - Years with end-stage dementia of the bruce willis type.

James Whale - Cancer for ages, 15 tumors, on the last type of chemo available.

Stanley Baxter - In a care home for years, probably suffering from dementia.

Joanne Woodward - Alzheimer's for sixteen years.

Clint Eastwood - Decrepit and has been said to suffer from heart problems.

Vanessa Redgrave - Emphysema and heart attack etc. One of those people who DLees seem to have expected to die within 6 months back a few years ago.

Gene Hackman - Severe heart problems since 1990, frail as fuck as drol mentioned above.

Jean-Marie Le Pen - Heart attack, pulmonary oedema in the past and stroke. Heart failure sufferer.

Denis Law - Mixed dementia for years.

Hans Blix - Spent weeks in ICU with tick-borne encephalitis some years ago. Frail, housebound, still ill but still relatively active.

Tom Brokaw - Multiple myeloma for years, severe infections, 24/7 care, ultrafrail.

Linda Nolan - Cancer with metastases everywhere. Dying for 7 years now.

Norman Tebbit - Heart problems, in a motorized wheelchair, ghoulish.

Willie Nelson - Emphysema for ages, nearly died from covid around two years ago.

Esther Rantzen - Terminal lung cancer.

Roberta Flack - ALS at eighty fucking seven. There's a post on facebook on someone visiting her back in the summer and it sounded like she didn't have much time left and might've not been lucid anymore.

Prunella Scales - Dementia for more than a decade. I fully believe the end could be near now that Timothy is dead.

Brigitte Bardot - Severe heart and respiratory problems.

Imelda Marcos - Heart problems, diabetes, ministrokes etc. ICU hospitalisation earlier this year.

Ted Turner - Must've be past the average life expectancy of LBD by now.

Buzz Aldrin - On oxygen in his most recent appearance and looks fucking horrible.

Sonny Rollins - Pulmonary fibrosis for fucking ages and has outlived all expectancies by now.

Sly Stone - COPD and other serious health problems.

Tom Baker - Looks ghoulish, in and out of hospital earlier. Seems more stable now, but I don't think many would be suprised if he died sometime soon.

 

Don't seem to be doing that bad:

Mel Brooks - 98. Health-wise not much to say.

Patricia Routledge - Doing great for 95.

Desmond Morris - Looked pretty great in January. As great as you can at 96.

Julie Walters - Seems to be doing fine now.

Louis Farrakhan - Doing quite fine, somehow.

Barenboim - Doesn't seem to be dying that urgently. 5-year survival for vasculitis seems still quite high.

Dick Cheney - Has a near-Jayapatakaian health history, but very stable for 10 years now.

Robert Duvall - Yawn. Not much health history.

Josef Fritzl - I don't fucking believe he actually has dementia.

Raul Castro - Suffering from pancreatic dementia since 1910 and/or already died fifty years ago if you believe dissidents, but still well enough to regularly attend events.

Joe Bugner - Dementia but in relatively good physical condition atleast last year.

 

The list is most definitely not "full of random healthy nonagenarians" as some have claimed. Misses and the bitching about them are inevitable for 2025 but it will a pretty good year.

 

Maybe 2024 was actually a good list, just a year too early?