2025 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool

A very sad story here. Anne Marie Hochhalter, a Columbine shooting survivor, died today after spendning 1999-2025 in a wheelchair due to being paralyzed in the shooting. No news on her death cause. Edit: Headline says, small relief, natural causes.

To compound it, her own mother killed herself 6 months after Columbine shooting.

She was 43, That’s right, the Columbine victims are as old as 43 now.

The Jam drummer Rick Buckler dies aged 69.

BBC News

Josh Seiter might be dead. His social media accounts claim he was found dead in a Mexican hotel, but it’s not the first time he had one of his social media accounts claim he was dead. (Apparently he claims his account was hacked for that.)

American singer Jerry Butler has died. His biggest hit was Only the Strong Survive. At least until age 85.

Guitarist and producer Karl Cochran, best known for working with KISS, has suffered the kiss of death at 61.

Miss Yvonne, the most beautiful woman in Puppetland aka Charlie’s mom on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia aka Lynne Marie Stewart has died at the age of 78.

Wonder how they’ll incorporate that into the show.

Loved her on IASIP. She’ll be missed.

Looks like there’ll be a conclave in Rome soon.

Pope Francis is in critical condition, the Vatican says : NPR

I hope he passes without pain. He lived sparely. When he was still in Argentina he would take the bus, not having a car. He didn’t move into the lavish papal apartments, but a smaller room. He seemed a good man, from what I heard of him.

How many players have Pope Francis?

He’s on my list and has been for a couple of years now. That said, I hope he pulls through and those points don’t come through.

Never mind.

Will we ever find out if Michael Schumacher croaks? That camp seems to be pretty tight-lipped.

But that money gonna run out eventually.

Nine players have him listed.

Jeez, I had Schumacher on my 2014 list. As did a whole bunch of others.

Who is our current “Jimmy Carter”, a person many had had on a list annually for a long time?

I had Linda Nola for years as well, but she has died this year.

I just looked at my 2014 list and all have died, so that didn’t help much.

I don’t know about other players, but I’ve been playing since 2019, and each year I’ve had Emperor Akihito on my list. And each year he continues to age gracefully.

ETA: He was born on December 23, 1933, so he’s now 91 years old.

Seems to me that I have been keeping him alive longer than you have.