# 2024 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2023, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940 "2023-12-01T06:01:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 104
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2062 "2024-10-22T14:58:08Z")
What a way to go. > **[Groundbreaking NYC music executive Cindy Charles killed in horrific crash in...](https://nypost.com/2024/10/21/business/longtime-twitch-executive-cindy-charles-dies-at-69-in-netherlands-accident/)** > > Cindy Charles worked at Twitch for more than six years and played an integral role in the company’s major deals.  ---
**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:** [October 22, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2063 "2024-10-22T21:05:11Z")
Nobel Prize winner Andrew Schally. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/10/20/andrew-schally-nobel-brain-guillemin-dies/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/10/20/andrew-schally-nobel-brain-guillemin-dies/) ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2064 "2024-10-22T22:07:43Z")
How do you get hit by something that moves that slowly? Was her heel stuck in a grate? ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2065 "2024-10-22T23:19:17Z")
> **[Lynda Obst, Veteran Film Producer, Writer and Champion of Women in Hollywood,...](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/lynda-obst-dead-sleepless-in-seattle-1235950420/)** > > She used her “crazy intuitive intelligence and taste” to get behind such films as 'Flashdance,' 'Sleepless in Seattle,' 'Contact,' ‘The Fisher King,’ 'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,' 'Interstellar' and more. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2024, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2066 "2024-10-22T23:21:28Z")
> **[Pianist in Oscar-winning 'The Pianist,' dies at 72](https://www.newsweek.com/janusz-olejniczak-pianist-pianist-dead-aged-72-1972191)** > > Polish musician and teacher, Janusz Olejniczak, died of a heart attack, his family announced on Monday. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2024, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2067 "2024-10-23T00:55:43Z")
It says that she was run over. I would guess a phone or other distraction was involved. All it would take is for her to get knocked down in front of it, or perhaps to get snagged and pulled under (the accident was described as “horrific”, that fits). Also, garbage trucks can move at a clip: 20 or 25 is not slow if you are not paying attention. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2068 "2024-10-23T04:06:08Z")
I saw this in the baseball thread: Former MLB pitcher [Fernando Valenzuela](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/41952316/dodgers-legendary-pitcher-fernando-valenzuela-dies-63) has died at 63. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2069 "2024-10-23T09:29:13Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > It says that she was run over. I would guess a phone or other distraction was involved. All it would take is for her to get knocked down in front of it, or perhaps to get snagged and pulled under (the accident was described as “horrific”, that fits). Also, garbage trucks can move at a clip: 20 or 25 is not slow if you are not paying attention. If all the isekai I watch has taught me anything, she’s been reincarnated as a nobleman’s daughter in a fantasy world and will have enormous magical powers. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2070 "2024-10-23T11:45:14Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Former MLB pitcher [Fernando Valenzuela](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/41952316/dodgers-legendary-pitcher-fernando-valenzuela-dies-63) has died at 63. He was breathing out of the wrong eyelid. ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2071 "2024-10-23T12:56:51Z")
I had a friend literally run over on her bike by a dump truck. She was going straight through a green light and the dump truck when turned left into (over) her. She had large tread mark shaped scars over her thigh but miraculously not too seriously injured. Her bike helmet on the other hand was completely split in two. Too bad Cindy didn’t have a helmet, might have had a different (pointless) outcome. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2072 "2024-10-23T23:33:23Z")
What on earth does this mean? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2073 "2024-10-23T23:50:22Z")
_Bull Durham_ reference. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2074 "2024-10-24T00:04:14Z")
> **[Ron Ely, Star of 'Tarzan' Series, Dies at 86, 5 Years After the Shocking...](https://people.com/ron-ely-dead-tarzan-tv-series-star-was-86-8733260)** > > Ron Ely, ‘Tarzan’ star, has died at the age of 86. His daughter Kirsten Ely confirmed the news on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024 in a post on Instagram. The actor's death comes five years after the shocking death of his wife and son. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2075 "2024-10-24T00:04:20Z")
Do we have Tarzan and Doc Savage down (Ron Ely) for September 29th, and confirmed today? ---
**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:** [October 24, 2024, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2076 "2024-10-24T00:16:33Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > It says that she was run over. I would guess a phone or other distraction was involved. All it would take is for her to get knocked down in front of it, or perhaps to get snagged and pulled under (the accident was described as “horrific”, that fits). Also, garbage trucks can move at a clip: 20 or 25 is not slow if you are not paying attention. I spent a summer during college as a ride-along for a garbage company after another job I had lined up fell through at the last minute. Garbage trucks aren’t particularly slow. They can easily hit highway speeds on a highway. If they aren’t in the process of starting and stopping regularly to pick up garbage, they move with the speed of traffic. In other words, if it’s not actively picking up on its route, you have just as good of a chance of being hit by a garbage truck as any other vehicle. And due to the size, it’ll probably do more damage. And since it tends to ride higher than other vehicles, it’s less apt to see things right in front of it. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2024, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2077 "2024-10-24T00:19:06Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > And since it tends to ride higher than other vehicles, it’s less apt to see things right in front of it. I had the impression that garbage trucks tend to be similar to cab-overs, presumably just for this reason. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2024, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2078 "2024-10-24T00:25:53Z")
Paul Di’Anno is Running Free in Purgatory. > **[Paul Di'Anno, Iron Maiden's Frontman on First Recordings, Dead at 66](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/paul-dianno-iron-maiden-dead-obituary-1235139102/)** > > Paul Di'Anno, whose gruff voice drove Iron Maiden's earliest recordings, has died at the age of 66. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2079 "2024-10-24T00:49:21Z")
What a terrible way to lose his wife and son. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2080 "2024-10-24T01:03:01Z")
I had the “pleasure” of working an auto accident that involved a garbage truck and a Hyundai Sonata. Apparently, the young girl in the Hyundai was texting while driving, and ran a stop sign. The garbage truck had the right of way and was traveling at speed (roughly 35-40mph, if I remember correctly). The driver had no time to stop to avoid hitting her. The truck impacted the driver’s side door. We picked up what remained of her from the passenger seat. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2081 "2024-10-24T01:50:23Z")
Well, so much for the long-awaited “Man of Bronze” sequel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940.md?page=103) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940.md?page=105)