# 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:** 30
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/581 "2025-02-27T22:41:52Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > You cannot save all the starfish on the beach. A reply from a motivational poster at work: The kid that is tossing stranded starfish tosses one more to the sea and tells the naysayer: “I made a difference for **that** one!” ---
**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, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/582 "2025-02-27T22:53:13Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > 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. We have a Life Pool that does this. ---
**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, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/583 "2025-02-27T23:03:23Z")
Except in the Life Pool you get to keep playing if one of your celebrities dies. I like this award for our regular list because it gives players who protect ALL their celebrities a chance for something. Because it takes a special kind of (bad?) luck for a list of 13 old/ill/others that you pick not to score at least once. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/584 "2025-02-27T23:28:44Z")
Did @Gatopescado put you up to this? 😜 ---
**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 28, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/585 "2025-02-28T00:16:13Z")
I never formed an interest in the Life Pool game due to the glaring deficency of handbaskets. ---
**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 28, 2025, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/586 "2025-02-28T00:45:38Z")
….. > [@eschereal](#): > > I never formed an interest in the Life Pool game due to the glaring deficency of handbaskets. You are looking at it the wrong way, eschereal. I think I will play the Life pool next year. You see, in the regular Death pool you are rooting for your 13 celebrities to die, and everyone else’s celebrities to live. But in the Life Pool, you want your 13 celebrities to live, and you want everyone else’s celebrities to die. ---
**Author:** ![Dancer\_Flight](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dancer_flight/32/7601_2.png) [@Dancer\_Flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dancer_Flight)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/587 "2025-02-28T03:09:16Z")
I prefer to think of it as a hedge. I play oldsters in each pool (Death, Themed, Life) and there is considerable overlap. I’ll get points out of most picks whether they live or die. 🤷‍♂️ ---
**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 28, 2025, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/588 "2025-02-28T06:51:48Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > 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. _Now_ you suggest this! I’m pretty sure I would have won this in 2018, my first year playing the Death Pool, since all my picks were above 90 years old. I think my total would have been about 1,242. > [@Celebrity Death Pool 2018](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/126): > > I’m playing the odds, not going for points. The maximum I could get, if all of these wonderful actors dropped dead in early January, is 59. The first four are over 100 already. Norman Lloyd Olivia de Havilland Kirk Douglas Marsha Hunt Carol Channing Betty White Carl Reiner Doris Day Eva Marie Saint Dick van Dyke June Lockhart Angela Lansbury Sidney Poitier Alternates: Joe Turkel Conrad Janis Peggy Dow I’ve repeated this list, but haven’t been scoreless, every year since then. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/589 "2025-02-28T14:51:27Z")
| 1 | Kitten Mitten | 68 | 2 | 1 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2 | GIGObuster | 59 | 2 | 0 | | 2 | Jeezums | 59 | 2 | 0 | | 4 | Mahaloth | 40 | 2 | 1 | | 5 | Captain Klutz | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | Happy Lendervedder | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | Hoopy Frood | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | It’s Not Rocket Surgery | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | Jegpeg | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | Little Nemo | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | Pheoinix | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | phungi | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | Queen Anne’s Lace | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | Railer 13 | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | Registered at Last | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | Reindeer Flotilla | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | RobotDevilDog | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | RTFirefly | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 19 | vivalostwages | 22 | 1 | 1 | | 19 | zadscmc | 22 | 1 | 1 | | 21 | Culling the Herd | 14 | 1 | 1 | | 22 | Bayaker | 12 | 1 | 0 | | 22 | Dung Beetle | 12 | 1 | 0 | | 22 | Mrs Ducky | 12 | 1 | 0 | | 25 | commasense | 10 | 2 | 1 | | 25 | Sternvogel | 10 | 1 | 0 | | 25 | Superdude | 10 | 1 | 0 | | 28 | escheral | 8 | 1 | 1 | | 28 | Shoeless | 8 | 1 | 1 | | 30 | Hatchie | 5 | 1 | 1 | | 30 | imthjckaz | 5 | 1 | 0 | | 30 | shageroo | 5 | 1 | 0 | | 30 | Stephe96 | 5 | 1 | 0 | | 30 | teelabrown | 5 | 1 | 0 | | 30 | Todesliste | 5 | 1 | 0 | | 30 | Tristan | 5 | 1 | 0 | | 30 | Tyronne | 5 | 1 | 0 | ---
**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 28, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/590 "2025-02-28T16:57:55Z")
umm, I think he was 88 years old – that should be 12, not 8, right? ---
**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 28, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/591 "2025-02-28T20:03:30Z")
Author Joseph Wambaugh has died at 88. > **[Joseph Wambaugh](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wambaugh)** > > Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. (January 22, 1937 – February 28, 2025) was an American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Many of his novels are set in Los Angeles and its surroundings and feature Los Angeles police officers as protagonists. He won three Edgar Awards, and was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. > The son of a police officer, Wambaugh was born in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 22, 1937. His fam... ---
**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:** [March 1, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/592 "2025-03-01T02:20:32Z")
Ernie Gygax, Jr. has died. He was Gary Gygax’s son and continued to work on D&D after Gary died some years ago. What I do not have is an age for Ernie, though. 😕 ---
**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:** [March 1, 2025, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/593 "2025-03-01T03:42:03Z")
I believe you have to roll a dice for it or something. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2025, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/594 "2025-03-01T05:06:06Z")
> **[Rose Girone, oldest known Holocaust survivor, dies at 113](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/rose-girone-oldest-known-holocaust-survivor-dies-113-rcna194158)** > > "She was a strong lady, resilient. She made the best of terrible situations," said Girone's daughter, who is also a Holocaust survivor. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/595 "2025-03-01T05:24:18Z")
Oops! | 1 | Kitten Mitten | 68 | 2 | 1 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2 | GIGObuster | 59 | 2 | 0 | | 2 | Jeezums | 59 | 2 | 0 | | 4 | Mahaloth | 40 | 2 | 1 | | 5 | Captain Klutz | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | Happy Lendervedder | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | Hoopy Frood | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | It’s Not Rocket Surgery | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | Jegpeg | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | Little Nemo | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | Pheoinix | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | phungi | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | Queen Anne’s Lace | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | Railer 13 | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | Registered at Last | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | Reindeer Flotilla | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | RobotDevilDog | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | RTFirefly | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 19 | vivalostwages | 22 | 1 | 1 | | 19 | zadscmc | 22 | 1 | 1 | | 21 | Culling the Herd | 14 | 1 | 1 | | 22 | escheral | 12 | 1 | 1 | | 22 | Bayaker | 12 | 1 | 0 | | 22 | Dung Beetle | 12 | 1 | 0 | | 22 | Mrs Ducky | 12 | 1 | 0 | | 26 | commasense | 10 | 2 | 1 | | 26 | Sternvogel | 10 | 1 | 0 | | 26 | Superdude | 10 | 1 | 0 | | 29 | Shoeless | 8 | 1 | 1 | | 30 | Hatchie | 5 | 1 | 1 | | 30 | imthjckaz | 5 | 1 | 0 | | 30 | shageroo | 5 | 1 | 0 | | 30 | Stephe96 | 5 | 1 | 0 | | 30 | teelabrown | 5 | 1 | 0 | | 30 | Todesliste | 5 | 1 | 0 | | 30 | Tristan | 5 | 1 | 0 | | 30 | Tyronne | 5 | 1 | 0 | ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/596 "2025-03-01T17:12:55Z")
David Johansen, last of the New York Dolls before reinventing himself as “Buster Poindexter” and an actor, dies at 75. > **[David Johansen, New York Dolls Frontman, Dies at 75](https://variety.com/2025/music/news/david-johansen-dead-new-york-dolls-1236324334/)** > > David Johansen, the frontman and last surviving member of proto-punk band New York Dolls, who went on to act in films such as "Scrooged," has died. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/597 "2025-03-01T18:11:22Z")
Thanks for screwing up my 2026 list Buster. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/598 "2025-03-01T18:55:21Z")
> **[Singer-Songwriter Angie Stone Dead at 63](https://amp.tmz.com/2025/03/01/angie-stone-dead-singer-songwriter-the-sequence/)** > > Angie Stone -- a singer and member of the iconic hip hop trio The Sequence -- has died ... TMZ has confirmed. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/599 "2025-03-02T13:34:41Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > A reply from a motivational poster at work: I personally prefer [Despair.com](http://Despair.com)’s demotivational parodies. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/600 "2025-03-02T15:28:16Z")
Just a reminder that rock and roll goddess and the smartest woman Billy Mumy ever knew, June Lockhart, achieves Zero Point Status on June 25 of this year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=29) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=31)