dead Billionaire Has Terminal Cancer

[Guest iain]

A billionaire businessman who last year headed Scotland's rich list has just a few weeks to live because of terminal cancer, it has emerged.

 

Oil and gas magnate Paul van Vlissingen has returned home to his native Netherlands to die

[Windsor 2,233]

A billionaire businessman who last year headed Scotland's rich list has just a few weeks to live because of terminal cancer, it has emerged.

 

Oil and gas magnate Paul van Vlissingen has returned home to his native Netherlands to die

 

Never heard of him.

Weeks to live....Anna Nicole had better get her skates on.

(It was she who married the elderly dying billionaire, wasn't it?)

[Handrejka 1,904]

A billionaire businessman who last year headed Scotland's rich list has just a few weeks to live because of terminal cancer, it has emerged.

 

Oil and gas magnate Paul van Vlissingen has returned home to his native Netherlands to die

 

Never heard of him.

Weeks to live....Anna Nicole had better get her skates on.

(It was she who married the elderly dying billionaire, wasn't it?)

 

It was indeed Windsor

[football_fan 42]

Never heard of Paul van Vlissingen either, so I had to do a bit of research. He is very involved in wildlife conservation, manages a wildlife area in Scotland, and has several projects throughout Africa, according to this old article from 2003 and this other one.

 

He does not seem to be very well known outside of the Netherlands and Scotland, so he would not satisfy the DL famous enough category. If he does manage to survive this year, he would be an excellent ddp or hpd selection.

[Canadian Paul 97]

Doesn't even have his own Wikipedia page! How low on the "Not Famous Enough" scale can he go?

 

Though admittedly, neither does Ernest Gallo. I wonder if that speaks less of him or Wikipedia?

[Rotten Ali 600]

Yep, I've heard the news about this chap already - he is the boss of Calor Gas - and with this cancer I've got him in my top twenty out of 662 names. Only thing is it now looks like he won't be around much longer.

[BrunoBrimley 86]

Doesn't even have his own Wikipedia page! How low on the "Not Famous Enough" scale can he go?

 

 

With Iaaiin the only requireremtent for menbershuipo on our listing pallcement is a desire to start dying.

[in eternum+ 22]

He does not seem to be very well known outside of the Netherlands and Scotland, so he would not satisfy the DL famous enough category. If he does manage to survive this year, he would be an excellent ddp or hpd selection.

Really? I reckon the death of a billionaire Scotsman, running amok in conservation areas, would be enough to get him an obit in a respected Brit paper. Isn't that the one-and-only DL famous enough category?

 

I peg him as one to monitor for 2007. Live, Paul, live!

[Octopus of Odstock 2,197]

Weeks to live....Anna Nicole had better get her skates on.

 

Well, now she's won her court battle, the way is clear.......

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

I mentioned him on the ideas and possibilities thread on 21st March !!!

[Octopus of Odstock 2,197]

Well, iain got it wrong again. PVV didn't die in weeks, he lasted until August, but he's now dead.

[Phantom 2,533]

I still have no idea who he is

[Canadian Paul 97]

I still have no idea who he is

 

Ditto. I read OoO's update in the Ideas/Possibilities/Names thread and thought momentarily that Captain Beefhart had died.

[maryportfuncity 10,647]

Is 16 weeks 'just a few'? Next to the 65 years he lived, probably. Next to our normal understanding of 'just a few' - as in the time Lou Rawles had on January 1st - probably not.

[Magere Hein 1,400]

I still have no idea who he is

Ditto. I read OoO's update in the Ideas/Possibilities/Names thread and thought momentarily that Captain Beefhart had died.

If I'm not mistaken this is Paul Fentener van Vlissingen (yes, he had a double-barreled family name), owner of SHV, a company much reviled in the Netherlands, at least by those with a leftish political bent. In the 80s several SHV's Makro shops were torched because that company had considerable investment in South-Africa. Eventually those investments were withdrawn.

 

regards,

Hein

[Josco 49]

I still have no idea who he is

Ditto. I read OoO's update in the Ideas/Possibilities/Names thread and thought momentarily that Captain Beefhart had died.

If I'm not mistaken this is Paul Fentener van Vlissingen (yes, he had a double-barreled family name), owner of SHV, a company much reviled in the Netherlands, at least by those with a leftish political bent. In the 80s several SHV's Makro shops were torched because that company had considerable investment in South-Africa. Eventually those investments were withdrawn.

 

regards,

Hein

He also had an obituary in the Daily Telegraph (A UK Gentlemens' newspaper).

[TLC 9]

He also had an obituary in the Daily Telegraph (A UK Gentlemens' newspaper).

As opposed to the Daily Sport, which is more of a UK Gentlemens' Interest newspaper, an important distinction.