Thoughts on the 2025 Deathlist

[Grimgrass 573]

It's up! Pretty decent list imo.

[Fox B 46]

Looks ok at first glance. Great to see Yoko and Attenborough back and some great new additions. Do think they should have picked Peter Yarrow tho.

[Insane 360]

Great list, the only thing I’m genuinely surprised about is Asma al-Assad being on it, I get the reasoning behind it however.

[Dying Probably 649]

Wow, nobody I'm going "holy feck, WHO?!" at. *AHEM WALTERS AHEM*

[Joey Russ 7,319]

Genuinely shocked they kept Sonny Rollins I thought for sure he was gonna be one of the drops off the list. But Flack and Brokaw aren’t great drops… 

[Grimgrass 573]

The drops:

1. Pope Francis
2. James Whale
3. Vanessa Redgrave
4. Denis Law
5. Julie Walters
6. Tom Brokaw
7. Louis Farrakhan
8. Norman Tebbit
9. Willie Nelson
10. Daniel Barenboim
11. Roberta Flack
12. Dick Cheney
13. Josef Fritzl
14. Brigitte Bardot
15. Raul Castro
16. Ted Turner
17. Sly Stone
18. Tom Baker
19. Joe Bugner

[Summer in Transylvania 2,366]

They dropped Roberta Flack? Tebbit? Brokaw? The additions are good, but the drops are not. Peter Yarrow should have been on, too.

[Book 3,676]

Wow, Eva Marie Saint in at No. 2, not bad!

[Lafaucheuse 4,255]

Eva Marie saint at last ! Fabulous

[Steve 714]

Denis Law, Roberta Flack and Tom Brokaw crazy drops but pleased to see Tippi Hedren, Yoko Ono and Rex Williams on the list. 

[Death Impends 8,190]

On 25/11/2024 at 13:04, Death Impends said:

All I really care is that Buzz Aldrin stays and Frankie Valli joins.

 

Well, wish granted.

[Stogiagio 42]

Lol dick van dyke

[msc 18,676]

First immediate though - Denis Law, Tebbit, Willie Nelson and Roberta Flack are risky drops!

[Stogiagio 42]

Inserting a 101-year-old is somewhat Absurd 

[Fox B 46]

Agree that Flack, Brokaw and Law are bad drops but honestly they were basically fucked no matter what having to drop 19 names.

[Stogiagio 42]

It's more like a nonagenarian list anyway 

[Brad252 861]

Harvey Weinstein - Sex Offender

Stuart Hall - Sex Offender

 

No mucking about with the descriptions here.

 

Murdoch will also be a widely welcomed hit I reckon on top of these two, should they occur this year.

 

Also interesting to see Assad's wife go straight into this list off the back of her latest health news.

[DoorSlammer 603]

At first glance decent additions.

 

I wonder who Walker's replacement is. Stuart Hall? @Grim Reaper

[tracy 2,520]

Looks extremely safe compared to last year, which I guess is understandable.

 

Don't really understand bringing Dickinson and Linden back or adding Armani and Ecclestone. Of all the potential picks/returnees, those seemed very low priority. Brian Wilson returning is fair enough, but he probably has a few years left. The Rex Williams return is cute.

 

I'm very pleased they didn't miss out on Saint or Lovell, but there was very little chance they were going to after this year. Attenborough and Hurd are also welcome returns.

 

The drops are extremely bizarre, although I advocated for extremely bizarre drops just because they were gonna be screwed no matter what, so whatever. But I still scratch my head at cutting Flack, Brokaw, and Turner and leaving Brooks, Routledge, and Eastwood on the list. I doubt the Brits on here will be pleased that Tebbit isn't on the list either.

 

Stuart Hall strikes me as pretty risky. Not that I know much about him, but people seem quite confident he will die off radar.

 

My gut feeling: 0 hits. I dunno after last year who's to say.

[msc 18,676]

Valli, Lovell, Goodyear, Boycott, Ian Smith and Tippi seem good new picks.

 

Glad to see our man Attenborough back.

[Grimgrass 573]

Ono, Attenborough and Hurd are good returnees. Dickinson and Linden not so much. Unsure on Williams and Wilson.

 

Cheney was finally dropped! Pleased Routledge stayed on.

 

Asma al-Assad is the most surprising newcomer imo.

[namelesshere 12]

Tom Baker looks like a dubious drop... his recent MBE stinks of "oh fine i'll accept it at last, but only because I won't be here for long" - he has surely been offered an MBE before. 

[Zsa Zsa's leg 918]

No Yarrow or Ditka?

[Brad252 861]

"Should the committee be replaced with AI? Time will tell if DeathList 2025 signals a return to form and can Make DeathList Great Again!"

 

Lol'd at this bit in the summary.

[Deathrace 1,203]

By my reckoning 41 out of 50 are 90 or over.  Probably the oldest list ever.