# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 588
**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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010)._