2025 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool

Glad to be back for my 2nd year here

Clint Eastwood
Ariana Grande
Phil Collins
Brian Wilson
Edward Furlong
Ozzy Osbourne
Jack Nicholson
Yoko Ono
Bruce Willis
Buzz Aldrin
Kanye West
Celine Dion
Harvey Weinstein

Alternates:
Lizzo
MrBeast
David Lynch

For anyone cares, Mr. Beast is the online name of YouTube content creator James Donaldson.

Does the Death Mistress have a prefered way of referring to Sean P. Diddy Puff Daddy Combs?

Is there more than one?

Let’s see…

Sean Combs
Sean John Combs
Sean John
Puff Daddy
P. Diddy
Diddy
Puffy
Brother Love
Love

All names he’s used personally, professionally or both. I may have missed some.

I’d go with the first one.

I think you already have him picked twice with two different names.

I’ll give away part of my list, I’m not picking him. Just trying to make things easier for you.

Chris Hoy
Ananda Lewis
Joan Bakewell
Eric Jensen
Shirley Chung
John J. York
Jane Fonda
Donald Trump
Rudy Giuliani
Mitch McConnell
Vladimir Putin
Rupert Murdoch
Alex Jones

Steve Bannon
Lindsay Graham
Marjorie Taylor Greene

Chris Hoy - 48 - Olympic cyclist - metastasized prostate cancer
Ananda Lewis - 51 - former MTV veejay, ex-model - stage IV breast cancer
Joan Bakewell, Dame - 91 - journalist - colon cancer
Eric Jensen - 54 - actor - colorectal cancer
Shirley Chung - 48 - chef - stage IV tongue cancer
John J. York - 66 - actor - bone marrow cancer
Jane Fonda - 87 - actor - non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Donald Trump - 78 - pathetic demented man
Rudy Giuliani - 80 - dripping broke ex-lawyer to TFG
Mitch McConnell - 82 - blech - had a couple of “freezing” episodes
Vladimir Putin - 72 - Evil Authoritarian Trump admires
Rupert Murdoch - 92 - mass distributor of evil koolaid
Alex Jones - 50 - evil ex-owner of Infowars

Steve Bannon - 71
Lindsay Graham - 69
Marjorie Taylor Greene - 51

shakes fist at Rebo for listing Ananda Lewis

I was hoping to sneak a unique pick in there.

Neener neener! (You could leave her off your list and give me the unique pick!)

…that doesn’t sound like me…

Mike Ditka
Terry Bradshaw
Dick Van Dyke
Dick Cheney
Sean Combs
Michael J Fox
Dustin Hoffman
Marv Levy
Clint Eastwood
Dan Rather
Madison Cawthorn
Chris Berman
Diane Rehm

Donald Trump
Melania Trump
Ivanka Trump
Jared Kushner
Donald Trump Jr.
Kim Guilfoyle
Lara Trump
Eric Trump
Tiffany Trump
Barron Trump
Rudy Guiliani
Steve Bannon
Pete Hegseth

Alternates:
Aileen Cannon
Clarence Thomas
Sam Alito

Barron is now 18 and is in his first year of eligiblity

Chrys Hoy
Amanda Lewis
Shirley Chung
Rudy Giuliani
Andy Taylor
Bruce Willis
Donald Trump
Tony Danza
Alan Alda
Bill Cosby
Ray Romano
Billy Joel
Dionne Warwick

Sam Neill
Diana Ross
Ted Cruz

Donald Trump
JD Vance
Usha Vance
Gregg Popovich
Bashar Al-Assad
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Kim Richards (former actress)
Ye
Jennifer Lopez
Alexander Lukashenko
Bruce Willis
Christina Applegate
Brooke Shields

Alternates:
Journalist Jane Ferguson
George RR Martin
Tom Brokaw

Two fuckasses on my list (Yahya Sinwar and Hassan Nasrallah) got executed in 2024, so they’ve been replaced by Musk and Erdogan:

Lukasz Gottwald
Donald Trump
Bashar Assad
Justin Bieber
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Jeremy Corbyn
Elon Musk
Steve Bannon
Wayne LaPierre
Louis Farrakhan
Roger Waters
Kanye West

Alternates:

James Taylor
Bob Seger

Okay, getting in early this year.

Julie Newmar
Alan Alda
Arthur Blank
William Shatner
Michael J. Fox
Mitch McConnell
Sir Ian McKellen
Ted Turner
William Perry
Wilfred Benitez
Dame Judi Dench
Nancy Pelosi
Ken Langone

*Arthur Blank and Ken Langone are co-founders of Home Depot, and both in their eighties; William Perry is, of course, “The Fridge”, from the 1985 Bears; and Wilfred Benitez is a boxer with CTE.

Just checking. Do you mean Amanda Lewis, who’s in prison for killing her daughter in 2007? Or do you mean Ananda Lewis, the television performer who recently announced she has cancer? Or somebody else?

@Baker , would you please remove Graham Greene, and substitute former MLB player Ryne Sandberg (DOB 9/18/1959)?

Thank you, death mistress!

Slight change - Ryan Sandberg now in the list.

I’m mopping the floor with my 2024 Themed list; here in 2024 - zippo.
Pop stars but not too many duplicates with others.

Elton John
Ryan Sandberg
Brittany Spears
Justin Bieber
Mariah Carey
Halsey
Selena Gomez
Celine Dion
Adele
Alanis Morissette
Billie Eilish
Bebe Rexha
Constance Wu

Alts:
Bono
Harry Styles
Madonna