Only Famous For Being Ill And Dying

[gcreptile 10,213]

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.

[gcreptile 10,213]

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

[drol 10,034]

Vicky Phelan dead.

[gcreptile 10,213]

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

[gcreptile 10,213]

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/

[gcreptile 10,213]

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

[Octopus of Odstock 1,850]

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.

[YoungWillz 18,959]

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

[Grim Up North 3,565]

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?

[YoungWillz 18,959]

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.

[Grim Up North 3,565]

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.

[msc 17,712]

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.

[gcreptile 10,213]

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.

[maryportfuncity 9,989]

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

[Grim Up North 3,565]

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

[msc 17,712]

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.