# 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:** 33
**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 9, 2025, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/641 "2025-03-09T07:27:24Z")
I turn 60 this year. I’m pretty damn fit. I live in a city and I don’t own a car so I walk everywhere and I have a pretty physical job. I don’t feel 60. I barely feel 40. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/642 "2025-03-09T07:52:27Z")
I’m 77 and as unfit as it comes but I still ride motorcycle as I have for 60 years…my dad made it to 95 still driving legally and sharp as a tack. My mom made it to 95 as a happy vegetable from a mental standpoint …didn’t know anyone but got along with everyone. Could still play piano and finally died in her sleep with nothing wrong other than old age. If anyone knows the poem **The One Hoss Shay** - it’s bang on for both of my parents. Both lived in the house Dad built in the 30s - married for 74 years. Only mom went into care which she thought was “retirement village” when dad passed. I’ve got the genes ( as does my partner ) for a long life. Senescence is creeping in, forgetting things, struggling to remember etc but we keep very mentally active with puzzles and reading. Up until the last week it seems the Hackmans were doing very well managing wealth, fame, aging and community involvement until a mouse or two left its droppings in an unfortunate spot. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/643 "2025-03-09T07:55:53Z")
> [@MacDoc](#): > > I’m 77 and as unfit as it comes but I still ride motorcycle as I have for 60 years… My father was riding his motorcycle at 85, in good health, then someone took his eyes off the road and plowed into him. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/644 "2025-03-09T08:56:58Z")
that sucks - was he okay? ---
**Author:** ![MarkF2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5ac83/32.png) [@MarkF2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarkF2004)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/645 "2025-03-09T15:17:19Z")
Never read the book “For Who the Fred Stolle’s”? You’re missing out. ---
**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 9, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/646 "2025-03-09T16:04:17Z")
> [@MacDoc](#): > > 60s is the new 40s and she was very fit - had Gene riding bicycle when he was 97. There would be no reason to have daily help. Just bad luck for her Gene died at 95… ---
**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 9, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/647 "2025-03-09T16:07:19Z")
…which makes it even more incredible! ---
**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:** [March 9, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/648 "2025-03-09T21:13:11Z")
> [@MarkF2004](#): > > Never read the book “For Who the Fred Stolle’s”? You’re missing out. That’s also the title of my favorite Metallica song. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2025, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/649 "2025-03-09T22:01:14Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > …which makes it even more incredible! Not sure why you would say that. He apparently did not go into whatever place it was she was exposed, or if he did, was not doing whatever thing resulted in her exposure (which typically involves making airborne dust happen). Hantavirus is not human-to-human transmissible, and I would guess that they were probably not frequently engaging in the kind of intimacy that transmits bugs anyway. Also, as has been noted in this thread (or one of its progenitors), people that age have had quite a lot of practice at not dying. ---
**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 9, 2025, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/650 "2025-03-09T22:05:22Z")
Just remarking on her amazing ability to have him riding a bicycle after he was dead, not to mention his incredible stamina. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/651 "2025-03-09T22:25:04Z")
One of the early reports had him at 98…so at 95 he had the same lifespan as my dad. Dad tho was was sharp and still driving at 95. Never took a drink in his life and still sharp enough during his final heart attack to make sure the nurses held to the DNR. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/652 "2025-03-10T01:18:09Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > That’s also the title of my favorite Metallica song. I once had a professor named Fred Stoll. No, really. He was on the math faculty at University of South Carolina. That was \>30 years ago, though. ---
**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 10, 2025, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/653 "2025-03-10T04:27:47Z")
> **[Athol Fugard, South African Playwright Who Dissected Apartheid, Dies at 92](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/obituaries/athol-fugard-dead.html)** > > In works that included “Blood Knot,” “Sizwe Banzi Is Dead” and “The Island,” he exposed the realities of racial separatism in his homeland. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/654 "2025-03-10T05:19:01Z")
> **[Prince Frederik of Luxembourg dies from rare disease | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/09/europe/prince-frederik-luxembourg-dies-polg-intl-latam/index.html)** > > Prince Frederik of Luxembourg has died after a lifelong battle with a rare genetic disorder known as POLG mitochondrial disease. age 22??? 😮 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/655 "2025-03-10T06:29:41Z")
Interestingly, he played Jan Smuts, in the movie Gandhi. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2025, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/656 "2025-03-10T10:29:09Z")
I guess if you die of a genetic disorder your battle with it would be “lifelong” no matter what. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2025, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/657 "2025-03-10T12:09:14Z")
Not necessarily. **[Huntington’s disease](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington%27s_disease)** often shows no symptoms for a long time, until it does and you die a horrible death. > Signs and symptoms of Huntington’s disease most commonly become noticeable between the ages of 30 and 50 years, but they can begin at any age ---
**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 10, 2025, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/658 "2025-03-10T20:39:04Z")
> **[Schallock, oldest living ex-MLB'er, dies at 100](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/44171134/oldest-living-ex-major-leaguer-art-schallock-dies-100)** > > Pitcher Art Schallock, who in 1951 replaced future Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle on the Yankees' roster and had been the oldest living former major leaguer, has died at age 100. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/659 "2025-03-11T18:17:15Z")
That’s too bad. “Feels Good” and “If I Had No Loot” were fire. ---
**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 11, 2025, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/660 "2025-03-11T20:33:17Z")
Radio legend Bob Rivers dead at age 68. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=34)