gcreptile 11,079 Posted October 28, 2022 A minor version of Vicky Phelan, Lynsey Bennett, has died from her cancer: https://www.sundayworld.com/news/irish-news/tributes-as-cervical-check-campaigner-lynsey-bennett-34-passes-away-after-cancer-battle/299578755.html Another victim of the Cervical Check scandal in which cancer checks systematically failed to diagnose cervical cancer in women. I think she was a DDP pick at some point, but disqualified since then as not being notable enough. Edit: No, not a DDP pick at least in the years 2019-2022. Well, I had her on my longlist though. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,079 Posted October 28, 2022 Vicky Phelan reacts to Lynsey Bennett's death. A little late because Phelan, not being well herself, was in hospital, too: https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/vicky-phelan-pens-poignant-tribute-28355586 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 12,148 Posted November 14, 2022 Vicky Phelan dead. 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,079 Posted November 14, 2022 31 minutes ago, drol said: Vicky Phelan dead. Wikipedia was faster than us... RIP.... strong woman. QO already here through this new AP-like organisation: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/news/cervical-cancer-campaigner-vicky-phelan-105154037.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,079 Posted December 27, 2022 New Zealand cancer mum / "author" / columnist / marathon runner Dawn Picken has died at 52: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/tauranga-mother-and-writer-dawn-picken-dies-after-battle-with-rare-liver-disease/O42JEF4TNVHTFGLRDFXTV55TBM/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,079 Posted January 29, 2023 Natalie Fornasier, the very, very, very marginal writer, basically only notable as a cancer blogger, has died: https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/aussie-writer-natalie-fornasier-dies-at-28-after-losing-terminal-cancer-battle-c-9595384 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,217 Posted January 31, 2023 On 29/01/2023 at 22:05, gcreptile said: Natalie Fornasier, the very, very, very marginal writer, basically only notable as a cancer blogger, has died: https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/aussie-writer-natalie-fornasier-dies-at-28-after-losing-terminal-cancer-battle-c-9595384 Fornasier ended up getting QO's from The Mirror, Yahoo and the Daily Mail https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11690577/amp/Sydney-writer-Natalie-Fornasier-dies-battle-melanoma.html Reason I say this is not to bitch about disqualification but that it's clear the influencer/blogger type is virtually a shoe-in for obits, especially if young. Unfortunately for DDP purposes, she wasn't as influential as required. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,234 Posted May 11, 2023 On 19/02/2019 at 15:00, YoungWillz said: The Sun updates on Hallenga's anniversary: https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/8455633/kris-hallenga-breast-cancer-anniversary/ Kris Hallenga's plans for a living funeral: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12068055/Cancer-campaigner-Kris-Hallenga-reveals-plans-living-funeral.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,771 Posted May 11, 2023 19 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Kris Hallenga's plans for a living funeral: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12068055/Cancer-campaigner-Kris-Hallenga-reveals-plans-living-funeral.html She looks like nearing end of journey maybe and 37 is no age still but feels like a success when she got diagnosed 14 years ago. I wonder if her CoppaFeel charity work would make her an allowable pick in the DDP? i.e. one of that category of people who is only famous for being ill until they live long enough and do enough charity work to be also recognised through a charity/fundraising/campaigning? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,234 Posted May 11, 2023 Just now, Grim Up North said: She looks like nearing end of journey maybe and 37 is no age still but feels like a success when she got diagnosed 14 years ago. I wonder if her CoppaFeel charity work would make her an allowable pick in the DDP? i.e. one of that category of people who is only famous for being ill until they live long enough and do enough charity work to be also recognised through a charity/fundraising/campaigning? She's on the DDP. I agree, I think she's on the one way ticket, valid for six months. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,771 Posted May 11, 2023 2 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: She's on the DDP. Ah well that probably answers that one then. I say probably because I can’t remember ever discussing her during my time on committee and as she would not be a new name we may never have even considered. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,544 Posted May 11, 2023 14 minutes ago, Grim Up North said: Ah well that probably answers that one then. I say probably because I can’t remember ever discussing her during my time on committee and as she would not be a new name we may never have even considered. Iirc me and @gcreptile and you (?) decided her fame passed the threshold. She did present a BBC documentary after all. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,079 Posted May 11, 2023 Probably the last living "original" person of the kind of people this thread might have been created for. She did it long enough and relevant enough though to qualify, imo. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,684 Posted May 11, 2023 9 minutes ago, gcreptile said: Probably the last living "original" person of the kind of people this thread might have been created for. She did it long enough and relevant enough though to qualify, imo. Aye, just checking hereabouts - first mentioned on DL 11 Oct 2009 and a pick in the 2010 Deathrace, respect for her making 37 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,771 Posted May 11, 2023 1 hour ago, msc said: Iirc me and @gcreptile and you (?) decided her fame passed the threshold. She did present a BBC documentary after all. Haha - I can't remember what I had for lunch but I couldn't go back and look at the conversation either as I had left it. Cheers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,544 Posted May 11, 2023 28 minutes ago, Grim Up North said: Haha - I can't remember what I had for lunch but I couldn't go back and look at the conversation either as I had left it. Cheers Heh same about the conversation details (no longer being in the cmme) but I recall her name coming up probably because she was a DDP regular already. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,234 Posted May 6 On 11/05/2023 at 14:56, YoungWillz said: Kris Hallenga's plans for a living funeral: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12068055/Cancer-campaigner-Kris-Hallenga-reveals-plans-living-funeral.html Kris Hallenga finally dead: https://coppafeel.org/ DDP pick I think. 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,079 Posted May 6 I was wondering why she wasn't on more teams after that living funeral...but I'll take it. Probably because she lasted so long, much longer than everybody thought. Good for her, but still too early though. She probably was the last living example of the OG cancer celebrities. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,234 Posted May 6 3 minutes ago, gcreptile said: I was wondering why she wasn't on more teams after that living funeral...but I'll take it. Probably because she lasted so long, much longer than everybody thought. Good for her, but still too early though. She probably was the last living example of the OG cancer celebrities. Don't recall if she was the longest continuously picked non-royal "celeb" on the DDP. In a fight to the death with Richard O'Sullivan? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 8,043 Posted May 6 46 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Don't recall if she was the longest continuously picked non-royal "celeb" on the DDP. In a fight to the death with Richard O'Sullivan? There's the stat for most picked celebs overall. Keef and Holly Johnson's total means that they're picked on every DDP where records are known (ie every game from 2000 onward + 1998). Holly Johnson, Keith Richards 26 Hulk Hogan, Liza Minnelli 25 John Astin, Michael Barrymore, Jimmy Carter, Queen Elizabeth II (d. 2022), Mikhail Gorbachev (d. 2022), Imelda Marcos, Rupert Murdoch, Mike Tyson 24 Woody Allen, Michael J. Fox, Angela Lansbury (d. 2022), Desmond Tutu (d. 2021) 23 Emperor Akihito of Japan, George W. Bush, Kirk Douglas (d. 2020), Henry Kissinger (d. 2023), Ozzy Osbourne, Prince Philip (d. 2021) 22 5 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,386 Posted July 15 Bella Thomson, who as Bella Brave attracted millions of TikTok followers as she shared her story of battling several rare health conditions since birth, has died. She was 10. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/bella-brave-death-1.7263679 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,079 Posted August 20 Australian sergeant Emily Lahey has terminal cancer and offers her remaining time to strangers as a performance art project: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/aug/20/emily-lahey-time-to-live-project-terminal-cancer She also seems to be an Invictus games veteran, if I understand this right. So maybe she'll meet Prince Harry soon: https://invictusaustralia.org/team/emily-lahey/ Still, not really famous. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Comped 534 Posted August 20 5 hours ago, gcreptile said: Australian sergeant Emily Lahey has terminal cancer and offers her remaining time to strangers as a performance art project: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/aug/20/emily-lahey-time-to-live-project-terminal-cancer She's apparently only alive because she got treatment in the US. Makes me happy I don't have to worry about that, as I live here. Might go bankrupt getting healthcare, but I don't have to worry about getting approval and weighing deterioration versus care as it seems she did. Not a knock on Australia's healthcare system, which seems fine enough, but just an observation. She looks relatively fine though, but the article doesn't don't have enough detail for me to be able to say how long she lasts. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,386 Posted August 22 Thomas Hartle, the first person in Canada to legally access "magic mushroom" therapy, has died. He was 56. Hartle had battled cancer for ten years. https://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/the-first-person-in-canada-to-legally-access-magic-mushroom-therapy-has-died-at-age-56-1.7009584 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,079 Posted October 6 Tayt Andersen, aka "Ellen DeGeneres' boyfriend" for being frequently on her show, has difficult bladder cancer: https://m.imdb.com/news/ni64869655/?ref_=tt_nwr_1 He was on the show for needing a heart transplant. Through the show, he got it, but he's immuno-compromised and the outlook isn't good. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
