# 2025 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2024, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010 "2024-12-01T05:01:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 29
**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:** [February 27, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/561 "2025-02-27T15:04:48Z")
> [@Tristan](#): > > Happy to be on the board for the first time in a while, but sad it comes at the cost of a towering talent And his wife and even dog. Must have been Carbon Monoxide. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/562 "2025-02-27T15:06:18Z")
Weird Al’s parents died together from carbon monoxide poisoning. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2025, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/563 "2025-02-27T15:17:25Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Weird Al’s parents died together from carbon monoxide poisoning I thought of this immediately and always do. It was indeed his parents’ death that got me and my wife to put in carbon monoxide detectors in the house. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/564 "2025-02-27T15:21:21Z")
The day before they died was a Friday and an article had been in our paper how Al was going to be performing the following Wednesday. When I heard about his folks I figured he wouldn’t be performing. But it was announced that he would. Al was quoted as saying that as long as he was working he wasn’t crying, so he worked right up until the funeral. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/565 "2025-02-27T15:23:57Z")
Everyone should have them, especially if you have a gas appliance. It has no scent, it is invisible. And it will knock you out fairly quick in high enough concentrations. When we get dispatched for a CO detector going off, we go on air to do a search of the home for good reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/566 "2025-02-27T15:44:45Z")
Found a NYT article about his passing. Here is a quote: "Speaking in 2020 at the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, where he was shipped from the Lodz ghetto when he was a teenager, Mr. Turski sounded an alarm about what he called “a huge rise in antisemitism.” “ **Auschwitz did not fall from the sky** ,” he said in a Polityka magazine podcast. “ **It began with small forms of persecution of Jews**. It happened; it means it can happen anywhere. That is why human rights and democratic constitutions must be defended.” emphasis added. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/567 "2025-02-27T15:51:37Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Hackman had eight picks. Only one of those already had points, That would be me. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/568 "2025-02-27T16:46:09Z")
> [@Tristan](#): > > Everyone should have them, especially if you have a gas appliance. It has no scent, it is invisible. And it will knock you out fairly quick in high enough concentrations. Literally texted my wife to ask what we have. 1 in our laundry room, which has the gas furnace and gas dryer, two in separate spots upstairs(no gas appliances there). Whew. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/569 "2025-02-27T17:25:16Z")
now I will never get that espresso ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/570 "2025-02-27T17:53:00Z")
Cops are now calling the Hackman deaths “suspicious.” Yikes. > **[Gene Hackman's death ruled 'suspicious'; no obvious signs of gas leak as...](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna193960)** > > The fire department conducted testing to determine if there were signs of a possible carbon monoxide leak, but “did not locate signs of a leak or poisoning,” a search warrant states. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/571 "2025-02-27T18:08:08Z")
A candidate for my morbid thought experiment? > [@A Morbid Thought Experiment](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-morbid-thought-experiment/1006905): > > Breaking news comes on reporting that a celebrity/politician/famous for something person has been caught up in some horrific sex scandal and has ultimately killed their entire family and themselves. Nation in shock. Experiment 1: Which celebrity’s name would most make you go, “No friggin’ way … I can’t believe this … I, as a member of this nation, am in shock.”? Experiment 2: Which celebrity’s name would most make you go, “yeah, that adds up.”? ---
**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:** [February 27, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/572 "2025-02-27T20:58:22Z")
Boris Spassky has no moves left. > **[Boris Spassky](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Spassky)** > > Boris Vasilievich Spassky (Russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Спа́сский, romanized: Borís Vasíl'yevich Spásskiy; January 30, 1937 – February 27, 2025) was a Russian chess grandmaster who was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 to 1972. Spassky played three world championship matches: he lost to Tigran Petrosian in 1966; defeated Petrosian in 1969 to become world champion; then lost to Bobby Fischer in a famous match in 1972. > Spassky won the Soviet Chess Championship twice outr... ---
**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:** [February 27, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/573 "2025-02-27T21:08:56Z")
Checkmate ---
**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:** [February 27, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/574 "2025-02-27T21:13:51Z")
I am _on the board_ I have been keeping that guy alive for the better part of a decade. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/575 "2025-02-27T21:15:34Z")
Oh, damn! I had him in my short list and dropped him. I am still not on the board ☹ ---
**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:** [February 27, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/576 "2025-02-27T21:32:22Z")
> **[Frankétienne, considered one of Haiti's most important and prolific writers,...](https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/franktienne-considered-haitis-important-prolific-writers-dies-88-119046571)** > > Frankétienne, a renowned writer, painter, actor and musician known as the “father of Haitian letters” has died ---
**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:** [February 27, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/577 "2025-02-27T21:59:01Z")
I think there should be a special year-end award for the player who has had NO deaths at all from their list, but has the oldest total sum of ages of all those living people on their list. We all know our lists prolong the lives of our celebrities, but recognition should go to the player with the best use of that power. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/578 "2025-02-27T22:25:53Z")
That is an interesting idea. I will bookmark it for the end of the year, when new awards are discussed (I think) and will quote you then. The Power of Immortality Award (PIA)! ETA: \ You mean, it was my fault because I dropped him? 😟\<\second thoughts\> ---
**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:** [February 27, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/579 "2025-02-27T22:33:04Z")
You cannot save all the starfish on the beach. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/580 "2025-02-27T22:35:20Z")
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