Thoughts on the 2025 Deathlist

[Bendee87 30]

On 03/01/2025 at 03:33, The Daredevil said:

First DL without an ex US President since 2012!

Sure it won't be long until another appears...

[La Tombe 389]

More than 10 days past in 2025, and these year is slowly becoming boring as we have not seen any major death of international personalities (major Actor/Actress, major scientist, major artist, major politician)

 

Can : 

a leader like former Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade 

a famous sociologist like Noam Chomsky

a famous actress like Joanne Woodward

stop hanging on to life ?

[Fox B 65]

10 minutes ago, La Tombe said:

More than 10 days past in 2025, and these year is slowly becoming boring as we have not seen any major death of international personalities (major Actor/Actress, major scientist, major artist, major politician)

 

Can : 

a leader like former Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade 

a famous sociologist like Noam Chomsky

a famous actress like Joanne Woodward

stop hanging on to life ?

I mean, we already had one hit in the first 7 days, and we're still only on January 13th. It's far too early to judge if the year is "becoming boring" or not.

[MortalCaso 1,671]

12 minutes ago, La Tombe said:

More than 10 days past in 2025, and these year is slowly becoming boring as we have not seen any major death of international personalities (major Actor/Actress, major scientist, major artist, major politician)

 

Can : 

a leader like former Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade 

a famous sociologist like Noam Chomsky

a famous actress like Joanne Woodward

stop hanging on to life ?

Aren't you French?

[La Tombe 389]

2 minutes ago, MortalCaso said:

Aren't you French?

Yes and ?

[tracy 2,612]

We're only twelve days into the year, there's already been a DL hit, and Jimmy Carter's death was only two weeks ago. How can you be bored already? 

 

Yes, it would be nice from a DL perspective if big celebrities dropped dead every minute, but that is not going to happen. I wouldn't argue guys like Peter Yarrow and Sam Moore are staggeringly famous, but they're solidly B-list deaths. Certainly much better than last year when you could go for weeks with 99% of deaths being along the lines of "Edmundas Mindaugas, Lithuanian businessman" or some other Wikipedia stub.

[MortalCaso 1,671]

30 minutes ago, La Tombe said:

Yes and ?

The French have had no big deaths in 2025?...

[Lafaucheuse 4,295]

9 hours ago, tracy said:

We're only twelve days into the year, there's already been a DL hit, and Jimmy Carter's death was only two weeks ago. How can you be bored already? 

 

I feel like things have been shifting a bit lately, between Carter, Le Pen, Yarrow, Black Bart… However, I wouldn’t say that just because it’s a new year, things are going to magically change. I have a feeling we’ll stay on the same trajectory as 2024 for a little while longer, but around the middle of the year, I can see everything speeding up. My guts are we won't beat 2020, but we may end up with an average 14-15 hits overall. 

However, I think many lingerers and young ill celebrities will go this year. 

[Bibliogryphon 9,758]

This second hit puts the list of where it needs to be for a record breaking year but it is still behind the blistering start that last year delivered which ultimately ended in disappointment.

 

I think the key will be the date that the third death comes in. If you discount 2024 the earliest dates for third deaths comes in the first week of February with the average date for the third hit being 19th March.

 

Linda Nolan was was probably in the second tier of names this year which I think bodes well for a reasonable score but to break the record we perhaps need some of those punt names to go

[Death Impends 8,314]

Both hits being on the previous list backs up the expectation this year will see a backlog clean out after last year's massive logjam.

[Undead In Ohio 186]

We are now on pace for 48 hits, which leaves just two people still alive at the end of the year. Obviously, those two will be Noah Chomsky and Nigel Starmer-Smith.

[Fox B 65]

I decided to drop Linda Nolan from my personal list for this year due to being sick of her attention seeking. That's the breaks I guess.

 

Two hits halfway through January seems promising but it seemed like that last year as well. I do agree that most of this year's deaths will probably come from previous list names though.

[Deadpool 169]

Until now the list is doing well.

 

Probably around 16-18 hits I guess

[Evil Grimace 388]

The 2025 list is the first since 2014 that does not have a Nobel laureate on it.  They had either Jimmy Carter or Henry Kissinger, sometimes both, for any given year from 2015 to 2024.

 

Given their longevity and waiting a nearly decade for two hits, maybe laureates just aren't the best picks.

[Joltin Joe 154]

If Asma Al-Assad goes, I hope the write up is headlined "fatal Asma attack"