Ideas and Possibilities for 2019

[Sir Creep 7,071]

Feel free to announce the dying, ill, aged, or interesting you'd like to have the Committee consider for 2019.

[msc 18,536]

Peter Falk and lots of other dead people have Alzheimer's.

 

Right, there's that forum joke killed. On with the rest of the thread in 2018.

 

Yours,

Scrooge.

[philheybrookbay 439]

How’s Les Sealey from Manchester United doing these days? It’s all rather quiet about him  

[Sir Creep 7,071]

While going over names presently for 2018 teams, I had a star by Doddie Weir, but my follow-up research found this photo and if he is upright and looking at all decent (which he is), putting his name anywhere near a roster in 2018 seems premature.  Happy to check in on Doddie in late 2018 though and see  where he is at.  To that end, Google wasn't very forthcoming with links about Mr. Weir to any of our DDP sources, so I question his obit chances at the moment.  Again, let's see that play out.
SC

[Exu 250]

I think June Whitfield is a decent bet. She'll be getting a decent standard of care in her nursing home, but she is definitely getting long in the tooth. 

[MDavidSteel 15]

As stated before, I can't see Betty White saying goodbye any sooner than 2019. June Brown is the same. Assuming Chris Chitell (most likely) survives 2018, I would be willing to put him down as one of my returning 10 personal deathlisters (I feel like 25 is a bit too easy, bringing back half of the names)

[TQR 14,457]

I think a lot of nonagenarians like June Brown and Angela Lansbury and Betty White and QEII will probably make it to 2020, they’re all looking pretty healthy at present...though I’ve got a funny feeling that June Whitfield isn’t much longer for this world

[BrunoBrimley 86]

Hopefully Dick Van Dyke will kick off before then,but if not perhaps he could time his departure for the first day of 2019.

 

...and anyone still living from Keeping Up Appearances.

[CaptainChorizo 1,991]

That doesn't look like someone who will be alive 6 1/2 years later

 

If he survives 2018, Tinto Brass for all 2019 deathpool teams

[ImissMontpellier 73]

6 hours ago, CaptainChorizo said:

That doesn't look like someone who will be alive 6 1/2 years later

 

If he survives 2018, Tinto Brass for all 2019 deathpool teams

Good idea. Looks frail.

[Sean 6,365]

For next year:

 

Bring back:

Nobby Stiles

Jacques Chirac

Murray Walker

Nicholas Parsons

Doug Ellis

James Randi

Queen Elizabeth II

Desmond Tutu

Peter Alliss

Tony Bennett

Gay Byrne

Bill Maynard

Frank Bough

 

Add:

Roger Bannister

Sidney Poitier

Baroness Trumpington

Douglas Hurd

Sheila Mercier

June Spencer

Bill Treacher

John Hume

Peter Lorimer

Tim Curry

Eileen Derbyshire

Leonard Fenton

Bob Hawke

Kenneth Kaunda

William Frankland

Mary Wilson

Clarissa Eden

Robert Fyfe

Gerd Muller

Billy McNeill

Robbie Coltrane

Eric Clapton

Bill Wyman

Terry Jones

Billy Connelly

Freddie Starr

Keith Richards

Martin Peters

Ray Wilson 

Yoko Ono

Barbara Walters

Charlotte Rae 

Hugh Downs

Mazie Hirono

Kathleen Blanco

Joanne Woodward

Monica Vitti

Trevor Peacock

Tony Britton

Chris Rea

Morgan Tsvangirai

Shane Macgowan

Val Kilmer

Tim Healy

Diana Athill

 

[Hpresti 14]

Carol Channing? How’s she doing?

[Phantom 2,552]

1 hour ago, Hpresti said:

Carol Channing? How’s she doing?

 

Seems to be doing ok. She was in Minneapolis a few months ago.

[gcreptile 11,074]

Australia's foremost scientist, Ian Chubb, has stage iv kidney cancer but is now, miraculously, cancer-free:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jan/02/is-ian-cured-maybe-the-astonishing-cancer-treatment-of-australias-chief-scientist

 

Well, I, for one, am going to chase every bit of news on him. If that makes me a chubby chaser, then so be it.

[Death Impends 8,043]

Fat chance he'll be worth your while

[Éricles Souza 32]

 

I have some ideas for the deathlist of 2019, just an outline but I think some are worth it:

 

Isabelita Perón

Clarissa Eden

George Haigh (English footballer, born 1915)

Imelda Marcos

Dobri Dobrev

Dawda Jawara

Joe Jackson

José Sarney

Kenneth Kaunda

Violeta Chamorro 

Maria Antonieta de las Nieves 

Đỗ Mười

Reynaldo Bignone

Giorgio Napolitano

Suzy Delair

Abdoulaye Wade

Daniel arap Moi

Virginia Patton

Rosalynn Carter

Luís Echeverría

Carlos Menem

Florinda Meza

José Eduardo dos Santos

Mahathir Mohamad

Dame Marguerite Pindling

Sally Ann Howes

Nehemiah Persoff

Luís Garcia Meza

Hau Pei-tsun

Chuck Stevens 

Shehu Shagari 

Gina Lollobrigida 

Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio 

Lúcia Hiriart 

Scotty Bowers 

Delia Fiallo 

Carlos Villagrán 

Serafim Fernandes de Araújo 

Fernando Henrique Cardoso 

Yasuhiro Nakasone 

Patricia Morison 

Roy Harris 

Ahmed Zaki Yamani 

Beatriz Segall 

Stig Sollander

Cara Williams

Fay McKenzie

Mary Wilson

Nicanor Parra

Mirtha Legrand

 

[Leon Brittan 297]

Stefan Karl who plays Robbie in lazytown is in the final stages of cancer and only 42. surprised he wasn't in this years list nevermind next years

[Spade_Cooley 9,630]

[GossipGabe 333]

2 hours ago, Leon Brittan said:

Stefan Karl who plays Robbie in lazytown is in the final stages of cancer and only 42. surprised he wasn't in this years list nevermind next years

He was likely not included for the same reason he was not included last year: the Committee thought that he does not meet the fame threshold.

 

To be more precise, I guess a lot of people have got to know him by now, but he's known in the U.K. mostly for the fact that he has cancer (and the DL's rules state that candidates must be famous for something other than their reduced life expectancy).

 

Most people only know his name because a successful fundraising campaign (based on Robbie Rotten memes) that was launched for him after his cancer diagnosis by the producer of Lazy Town. While a part of the British public may have been aware of the show before that, or even know Robbie Rotten as a character, but not the obscure Icelandic actor that provided his voice.

[ramon 8]

maybe george soros on list 2019 and if not 2018 ok

[msc 18,536]

16 hours ago, GossipGabe said:

Most people only know his name because a successful fundraising campaign (based on Robbie Rotten memes) that was launched for him after his cancer diagnosis by the producer of Lazy Town. While a part of the British public may have been aware of the show before that, or even know Robbie Rotten as a character, but not the obscure Icelandic actor that provided his voice.

 

In short, he is well known, but to a rather younger generation than nearly everyone on this forum and the Cmme!

[wengeruk 32]

On 12/31/2017 at 15:01, Sir Creep said:

While going over names presently for 2018 teams, I had a star by Doddie Weir, but my follow-up research found this photo and if he is upright and looking at all decent (which he is), putting his name anywhere near a roster in 2018 seems premature.  Happy to check in on Doddie in late 2018 though and see  where he is at.  To that end, Google wasn't very forthcoming with links about Mr. Weir to any of our DDP sources, so I question his obit chances at the moment.  Again, let's see that play out.
SC

Doddie Weir is an absolute certainty to get an obituary from the BBC and all the British newspapers. Would agree he will likely make 2019 though.

[gcreptile 11,074]

Russell M. Nelson, likely next leader of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, 93 years old:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_M._Nelson

[Lewd_Squirrel 331]

How about Lee Meriwether?

[Éricles Souza 32]

 

I live in the expectation that these globalist leaders (Queen Elizabeth II, Henry Kissinger, Prince Philip, George Soros, Jimmy Carter, George H.W Bush Sr.) die soon and let the air lighter to breathe.