# 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:** 79
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1561 "2025-08-21T15:18:47Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I bet it was a Freemason, not an Elk. Whatever it was, it was lodged in there pretty good. mmm ---
**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:** [August 21, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1562 "2025-08-21T15:22:40Z")
I feel we should just Focus On The Funeral. ---
**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 21, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1563 "2025-08-21T16:44:04Z")
We might just say there is a morsel less hate disguised as love in the world today. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1564 "2025-08-21T19:08:12Z")
I’d love to see the look on his face when he realizes there’s no afterlife. ---
**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 21, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1565 "2025-08-21T19:40:17Z")
Given that thought processes end, it seems highly unlikely that any kind of “realization” happened. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1566 "2025-08-21T19:40:18Z")
I was thinking more of Mr. Bean as Satan: “I’m afraid the Jews were right.” ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1567 "2025-08-21T19:43:58Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > I’d love to see the look on his face when he realizes there’s no afterlife. I suspect he knew it all along. He seemed to have no fear of going to Hell, despite his despicable life. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1568 "2025-08-21T19:47:25Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Given that thought processes end, it seems highly unlikely that any kind of “realization” happened. That’s the joke. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1569 "2025-08-22T00:44:44Z")
> **[Brent Hinds, former Mastodon singer-guitarist, dies at 51 in motorcycle crash](https://apnews.com/article/brent-hinds-mastodon-dies-64bf2936826141287ef7a87b4845f068)** > > The former singer-guitarist for the Grammy-winning band Mastodon, Brent HInds has died in a motorcycle accident in Atlanta. He was 51. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1570 "2025-08-22T01:04:57Z")
So a car driver killed him. I’ll pray for the family. It’s how my dad died. A butthole truck driver looked down to put it a CD and murdered him. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1571 "2025-08-22T02:58:22Z")
Come to the Pit! > [@The SIH (Suffer in Hell) Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sih-suffer-in-hell-thread/1000217): > > When someone really awful but also really famous dies, they get rightfully roasted in their RIP thread. But sometimes someone doesn’t quite breach the level of fame that earns a personal thread, and yet fully deserve a farewell laced with heat and the hope that they will burn in eternity. Meet Bennett Braun, one of the main proponents and beneficiaries of Satanic panic psychiatry. I have provided a gift link below so you can see for yourself why he should be run over and dragged for several m… ---
**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:** [August 22, 2025, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1572 "2025-08-22T06:24:11Z")
Already there ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1573 "2025-08-23T05:06:54Z")
Yesterday I was recalling the episode where Gomer Pyle befriends a lonely old Jewish mother. Today I read that the journeyman actor who played her son died > **[R.I.P. David Ketchum, Get Smart's Agent 13](https://www.avclub.com/david-ketchum-obituary-get-smart)** > > R.I.P. David Ketchum, Get Smart's Agent 13 ---
**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 23, 2025, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1574 "2025-08-23T05:17:46Z")
Looks like he wrote episodes for some of the most repeated shows on TV. He could live on residuals very comfortably after that. ---
**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 23, 2025, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1575 "2025-08-23T05:26:26Z")
And he was on 13 episodes of _Get Smart_, but he should have died 10 years ago for proper symmetry – as it was, he gave up 3pts (to no one). ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1576 "2025-08-23T14:42:21Z")
[Ron Turcotte dead at 84.](https://apnews.com/article/secretariat-jockey-ron-turcotte-obit-375fe1dd868cb6e13a58ef7afef9c87c) Rode the greatest horse in history to a Triple Crown ---
**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 24, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1577 "2025-08-24T13:39:24Z")
> **['Sopranos' star Jerry Adler, Broadway backstage vet turned late-in-life...](https://apnews.com/article/jerry-adler-dies-sopranos-actor-465526928932a9e992350004ca60ff3c)** > > Actor Jerry Adler has died at 96. Adler started his career behind the scenes in theater and worked on more than 50 Broadway productions. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1578 "2025-08-25T01:18:48Z")
[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GzFZm71bwAAOxQx?format=jpg&name=small) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GzFZm71bwAAOxQx?format=jpg&name=small) Donald McPherson, last American fighter ace from WWII died at 103. A Naval Aviator with 5 victories. ---
**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 26, 2025, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1579 "2025-08-26T03:17:11Z")
> **['P.T. Barnum of motorsports' Humpy Wheeler dies](https://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/story/_/id/46037658/humpy-wheeler-pt-barnum-motorsports-dies-86)** > > Humpy Wheeler, a pioneering motorsports promoter and former president and general manager of Charlotte Motor Speedway, has died, NASCAR said. He was 86. ---
**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 26, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1580 "2025-08-26T03:21:03Z")
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