# 2022 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 3, 2021, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443 "2021-12-03T13:46:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 46
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/903 "2022-08-10T09:11:52Z")
Sad news. The wonderful children’s book writer and illustrator Raymond Briggs has died, aged 88. His most famous works include _The Snowman, Fungus The Bogeyman_, and the amazing and tragic _When The Wind Blows_. There are a lot more, and I own most of them, and his detailed [autobiography](https://www.amazon.com.au/Blooming-Books-Raymond-Briggs/dp/0224064789). Also, that will be 12 points, please. > **[Raymond Briggs obituary: An illustrious career](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38652946)** > > Award-winning illustrator and cartoonist whose work The Snowman became a Christmas favourite. ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/904 "2022-08-10T12:48:40Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > Hubby: > Did you hear that Olivia Newton-John died? > Me: > [out loud] Oh no, that’s so sad, she wasn’t very old. How old was she? > [in my head] I think she’s on my list!! Gotta check!!! > Hubby: She was just 73. > Me: > [out loud] Poor thing! Too young! > [in my head] 27 points!!! The last time I scored was in January!! This was virtually the same conversation I had with my wife, except the “27 points” part I said out loud… ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/905 "2022-08-10T13:52:28Z")
12 Points and a Unique Pick for **GuanoLad** : | Rank | Player | Score | Picks(Unique) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | phungi | 211 | 4(1) | | 2 | Happy\_Lendervedder | 169 | 3 | | 2 | Registered\_at\_Last | 169 | 3 | | 4 | RobotDevilDog | 164 | 4 | | 5 | Loach | 156 | 3(1) | | 6 | jeezums | 148 | 3 | | 7 | Reindeer\_Flotilla | 131 | 3 | | 8 | It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery | 127 | 3 | | 8 | Little\_Nemo | 127 | 3 | | 8 | RTFirefly | 127 | 3 | | 11 | Captain\_Klutz | 104 | 2 | | 11 | imthjckaz | 104 | 2(1) | | 13 | candide | 102 | 2 | | 14 | Mahaloth | 100 | 2 | | 14 | Maus\_Magill | 100 | 2 | | 14 | WolfpackJeep | 100 | 3(1) | | 17 | Bayaker | 94 | 2 | | 17 | Hoopy\_Frood | 94 | 2 | | 17 | Kitten\_Mitten | 94 | 2 | | 17 | Queen\_Anne\_s\_Lace | 94 | 2 | | 21 | GIGObuster | 92 | 3 | | 22 | Catamount | 73 | 2 | | 23 | ataraxy22 | 67 | 1 | | 23 | Superdude | 67 | 1 | | 25 | Allecher | 38 | 2 | | 25 | DrGirlfriend | 38 | 2 | | 27 | Dung\_Beetle | 33 | 2(1) | | 27 | gkster | 33 | 2 | | 27 | irritant | 33 | 1 | | 30 | Borborygmi | 29 | 1(1) | | 31 | amarinth | 27 | 1 | | 31 | Cazzle | 27 | 1 | | 31 | critter42 | 27 | 1 | | 31 | J-P\_L | 27 | 1 | | 31 | kingEabe | 27 | 1 | | 31 | Mean\_MrMustard | 27 | 1 | | 31 | NurseCarmen | 27 | 1 | | 31 | Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle | 27 | 1 | | 39 | eschereal | 21 | 1(1) | | 40 | vivalostwages | 18 | 1(1) | | 40 | xizor | 18 | 1(1) | | 42 | commasense | 13 | 2(1) | | 42 | Hatchie | 13 | 1(1) | | 44 | GuanoLad | 12 | 1(1) | | 44 | Hschardi | 12 | 1 | | 44 | JohnT | 12 | 1 | | 47 | Gyrate | 11 | 1 | | 47 | kitap | 11 | 1 | | 47 | ProfPepperwinkle | 11 | 1 | | 47 | truthseeker3 | 11 | 1 | | 51 | gwendee | 6 | 1 | | 51 | teelabrown | 6 | 1 | | 51 | zadscmc | 6 | 2(1) | | 54 | Baker | 1 | 3(2) | ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/906 "2022-08-10T14:57:16Z")
Was going through my list last night, just to make sure none of my remaining ten picks had died while I wasn’t looking. Yep, all still alive and kicking. Plenty of stage 4 cancer patients on the list, so maybe there are still some more points ahead, or maybe I’ll just have a bunch of people to carry forward another year. Olivia Newton-John was the oldest person on my list. Now that she’s coughed up her 27 points (yes, I’m in that handbasket), only one of them is older than me, so there’s still a chance to move up in the rankings. You never know. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/907 "2022-08-10T16:30:05Z")
I think all on my list have signed a deal with the Devil (other than Trump) to keep them alive a while longer. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/908 "2022-08-10T23:40:25Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > … only one of them is older than me, so there’s still a chance to move up in the rankings … Are _you_ on your list? I thought Freedonians were specifically excluded? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/909 "2022-08-11T01:10:43Z")
Let’s see: if I put myself on my list, and I kicked the bucket, I wouldn’t exactly be around to enjoy the boost to my score, would I? Doesn’t strike me as a good time. Seriously, I’m just using my own age as a reference point. I’m getting old enough that I don’t really want to pick people much older than me unless their chances of dying during the year are very good indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/910 "2022-08-11T03:02:44Z")
> **[Bert Fields, Consummate Hollywood Lawyer, Dies at 93](https://variety.com/2022/film/obituaries-people-news/bert-fields-dead-dies-lawyer-1235335815/)** > > Bertram “Bert” Fields, the larger-than-life entertainment lawyer whose roster of star clients and studios spoke to a penchant for doling out legal threats with a rhetorical flourish, along with a c… ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/911 "2022-08-12T01:09:44Z")
> **[Obituary: Gary Schroen, the CIA spy sent to get Osama Bin Laden](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62427462)** > > Gary Schroen, one of the first Americans on the ground in Afghanistan after 9/11, has died aged 80. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/912 "2022-08-12T11:56:25Z")
Jean-Jacques Sempé, French cartoonist and creator of Little Nicholas, has died at the age of 89. I think this announcement was the first time I’d heard of him or seen his work, and I’m really sorry I hadn’t earlier. > **[Jean-Jacques Sempé Dies: ‘Little Nicholas’ Creator & Illustrator Was 89](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jean-jacques-semp-dies-little-003348829.html)** > > Jean-Jacques Sempé, the French cartoonist best known for the Le Petit Nicolas (Little Nicholas) children’s books, died Thursday. He was 89. The mischievous schoolboy who is constantly getting into … ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/913 "2022-08-12T14:12:10Z")
Looks like if anyone had Anne Heche, they’re going to get a bunch of points soon. > **[Anne Heche “Not Expected To Survive” After Severe Brain Injury, Will Be Taken...](https://deadline.com/2022/08/anne-heche-brain-dead-injury-taken-off-life-support-1235090375/)** > > Anne Heche’s family and friends had been hoping for a miracle following the Emmy-winning actor’s horrific car crash last Friday. It didn’t come, and her closest ones are making th… ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/914 "2022-08-12T17:52:50Z")
Anne Heche has died. > ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/915 "2022-08-12T22:13:27Z")
Do we count Anne Heche now, or wait until she’s taken off life support? I suppose a ruling on that might come in handy some December 31st. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/916 "2022-08-12T22:36:10Z")
From what I’ve seen they’re only keeping her on life support to preserve her organs for donation. Once the doctors determine which of her organs can be donated, her family will pull the plug. So it shouldn’t be a years-long thing. I’d be surprised if it were days-long. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/917 "2022-08-12T22:51:53Z")
No one has picked her, making this pointless on many levels… ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/918 "2022-08-12T22:52:07Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Do we count Anne Heche now, or wait until she’s taken off life support? I don’t have her on my list and I’d give the points to anyone who had her. Did anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2022, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/919 "2022-08-13T00:04:37Z")
Salman Rushdie on a ventilator with “serious, but recoverable” injuries after stabbing > **[Salman Rushdie is on ventilator and may lose an eye after attack, agent says...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2022/aug/12/salman-rushdie-attack-stabbed-onstage-new-york-latest-updates)** > > Author has surgery after he was stabbed in the neck as he prepared to give speech in Chautauqua, in upstate New York ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/920 "2022-08-13T00:07:46Z")
Len Dawson, former Chiefs quarterback who led the team to victory in Super Bowl IV, has entered Hospice care, according to a family friend. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/921 "2022-08-13T00:24:10Z")
Australian media reporting life support has been turned off > **[Anne Heche legally declared dead, may become an organ donor following LA car...](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-12/anne-heche-legally-dead-on-life-support-after-car-crash/101328880)** > > Anne Heche remains on life support and under evaluation for organ donation after a car crash that led to her brain death, a representative for the actor says. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/922 "2022-08-13T01:29:26Z")
Looks like only Biotop had him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443.md?page=45) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443.md?page=47)