Welcome to the Sad Last Days thread.   This is not a place for the academic and erudite discussion about potential future picks which would take place in the Ideas and Possibilities thread.   This is where we discuss those celebrities who constantly feature in the pages of National Enquirier (and similar sordid titles) where the journalist seems to have hit upon a picture of a celebrity looking a bit rough and decide to write about their iminent death with the scattergun approach that a few times they will be right.   They will also like to invoke aspects of tragedy to the rich and powerful celebrities such as family fueds, hidden secrets, arguments about estates or just the decline of their careers.   If a wise and enlightened moderator can move over the posts I put in I & P when I suggested this thread we can get the ball rolling.   In the UK we can only get the print version of NE. Access to the website is blocked so our US posters may be vital to the success of this thread and it might be a bit pointless to post links.   What we are looking for is how often they are right and how many times they can call SLD before it becomes true.   SLD can also be read as Tragic final weeks, Fighting for life or accepting their fate.