The Dead of 2025

[SovietJohnny 108]

Wayne Osmond…second eldest of the 1970’s US pop clan…dies aged 73 on New Year’s Day

[Paul Bearer 6,206]

4 hours ago, Kenny said:

Britt Allcroft, creator of the Thomas The Tank Engine tv series, has gone to meet the Fat Controller - https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/britt-allcroft-thomas-the-tank-engine-dead-b2673177.html

 

33 minutes ago, SovietJohnny said:

Wayne Osmond…second eldest of the 1970’s US pop clan…dies aged 73 on New Year’s Day

Both already mentioned yesterday. 

[Kenny 291]

10 hours ago, Paul Bearer said:

 

Both already mentioned yesterday. 

 

Not on this thread. Are we supposed to search every thread before posting?

 

Only obsessives with boring and empty lives would have the time to do that.

[Ulitzer95 13,058]

14 minutes ago, Kenny said:

 

Not on this thread. Are we supposed to search every thread before posting?

 

Only obsessives with boring and empty lives would have the time to do that.

Many would say the same about posting anything on this forum in the first place.

[Funeralopolis 272]

Richard B. Hays dead at 76.

 

https://akma.disseminary.org/2025/01/richard-b-hays-1948-2025/

[SovietJohnny 108]

13 hours ago, Paul Bearer said:

 

Both already mentioned yesterday. 

Fair enough…..I will withdraw the comment if/when you rename this thread

 

”The Dead of 2025 Who Have Not Been Mentioned On Another Thread”

[Kenny 291]

Itooka while for Tomiko, the world’s oldest woman, to pass on her title.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9830vpp2p0o

 

No doubt, Paul Borer will be along soon to tell us it’s been posted on another thread.

 

ETA - there’s no date in the BBC article and Auntie’s journalism is notoriously shoddy….

[Joe Hudson 4]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgny622w0zo

[Commtech Sio Bibble 2,217]

13 minutes ago, Kenny said:

No doubt, Paul Borer will be along soon to tell us it’s been posted on another thread.

Yes it has been posted elsewhere, you've been a member of this site for over 5 years now, how do you not know how things work, either use the search function or check the relevant thread (such as in this case 'World's Oldest') before posting.

[Kenny 291]

10 minutes ago, Commtech Sio Bibble said:

Yes it has been posted elsewhere, you've been a member of this site for over 5 years now, how do you not know how things work, either use the search function or check the relevant thread (such as in this case 'World's Oldest') before posting.

 

You must be confusing me with someone who gives a fuck. I don’t visit very often as I can’t be bothered with petty rules. 

[Dying Probably 647]

Yeah, what was that Paul Bearer thinking... making the "dead" uncapitalized?! Diabolically demoniacal.

[Windsor 2,276]

2 minutes ago, Dying Probably said:

Yeah, what was that Paul Bearer thinking... making the "dead" uncapitalized?! Diabolically demoniacal.

 

Its an abomination. 

[Dying Probably 647]

8 minutes ago, Windsor said:

Its

 

[Toast 16,310]

I still maintain all deaths should be recorded in this thread. I don't see the point of it otherwise.

Most people probably qualify for more than one category anyway.

[Ulitzer95 13,058]

12 minutes ago, Toast said:

I still maintain all deaths should be recorded in this thread. I don't see the point of it otherwise.

Most people probably qualify for more than one category anyway.

We don’t need to have this discussion every 3 months.

[Commtech Sio Bibble 2,217]

7 minutes ago, Toast said:

I still maintain all deaths should be recorded in this thread. I don't see the point of it otherwise.

I think it'd become too cluttered, and deaths that haven't been reported in other threads would get lost in the bombardment of names. It's a lot more user friendly to be able to sort which threads and therefore deaths you look at, if your not interested in golf deaths (for example) you simply ignore that subject's thread. Plus, as I'm sure we all know, Wikipedia already complies all deaths into a single page in a much more streamlined fashion than anything that could be done here.

[time 8,720]

This is the dead of 2025 - everyone who dies in 2025 belongs here. If you don't like it don't read the thread! And if someone posts a death in here that's been posted elsewhere, there's absolutely no need to point it out! 

 

Having said that, Kenny is still wrong - Britt Allcroft died in 2024.

[drol 12,445]

Also Tomiko Itooka; he didn't get one right.

[Sir Creep 7,088]

2 hours ago, Toast said:

I still maintain all deaths should be recorded in this thread. I don't see the point of it otherwise.

Most people probably qualify for more than one category anyway.

I can see the argument for it.  I use it as a catch-all, but for archival purposes you are probably correct.  I double posted maybe a dozen times when I first arrived at DL cuz I thought like you, but after being beaten up for it I adopted the more typical posting procedures.

SC 

[alt obits guy 3,398]

Howard Buten, an American author living in France and the creator of Buffo the Clown, has died. He was 74 or 75.

https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2025/01/05/quand-j-avais-cinq-ans-je-m-ai-tue-deces-d-howard-buten-alias-le-clown-buffo_6481848_3382.html

(French obit.)

 

[maryportfuncity 10,756]

20 hours ago, Funeralopolis said:

Richard B. Hays dead at 76.

 

https://akma.disseminary.org/2025/01/richard-b-hays-1948-2025/

 

S'cuse the cross posting but does anyone know a more reputable obit for Hays? Even the painfully permissive Deathrace might struggle to accept a personal post.

[drol 12,445]

3 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

 

S'cuse the cross posting but does anyone know a more reputable obit for Hays? Even the painfully permissive Deathrace might struggle to accept a personal post.

This?

 

EDIT: personal too.

[maryportfuncity 10,756]

11 minutes ago, drol said:

This?

 

EDIT: personal too.

 

 

Yeah, the relevant rule is below. Fuck knows, I like smashing the Deathrace and it feels right in dead pooling terms to have it - ahem - dead and buried before the DDP site updates to the present year. I'm not disputing for a second that Hays is dead and also thinking there'll be a decent q/o when some obscure academic journal picks him up. You're right, re the "personal" thing. Bit of a nuanced judgement for sure but any communication line where the main point is the promotion of the person behind it (blog, tic-tok etc.) is likely even too dodgy for Deathrace purposes. Hays may well, eventually, make a Guardian obit or Other Lives in there, though they take their time. The good news - I think - is that religious scholars and the like do have many online news outlets that are about news and linked to a creed or a group of some kind, so yer man will likely feature soon.

 

 

9 - An "obit" in the context of the Deathrace is any news report in English from a reliable source. Such sources include - but are not limited to - UK national press, UK national broadcast organisations, foreign press and broadcast organisations with an English language thread to their communication, trade press in English, local news organisations reporting in English and coverage in specialist online sites, such as those monitoring the well-being of super-centenarians. Where dispute arises over the qualifying nature of a news source for obit purposes MPFC's decision is final. But he wants fast and furious competition and is generally very amenable to low hanging dead pool fruit of all varieties.

[Summer in Transylvania 2,362]

Mike Rinder, picked in several pools hereabouts, dead at 69.

[gcreptile 11,303]

4 minutes ago, Summer in Transylvania said:

Mike Rinder, picked in several pools hereabouts, dead at 69.

Well okay, he DID die before his birthday.