2025 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool

Ms. Parton was in the news recently, due to a health scare that has been revealed to be kidney stones. That’s not fun either, but she’s going to be OK.

Not Andrew’s dad! Who was apparently a cop!

(Those were Mr. Dean’s roles in The Breakfast Club and The Fugitive, respectively.)

Ron Dean recurred on one of my favourite shows, Early Edition, a the cop who was constantly encountering Gary Hobson in the middle of something suspicious.

She is officially not dead yet.

Miguel Ángel Russo, Boca Junior’s manager, died aged 69. I had him on my list for next year, but I could not include him in time to save him.

Former Red Sox outfielder Mike Greenwell has died way too young (aged 62)

“I don’t want to go on the cart.”

She has not started looking into the long blue tunnel to the afterlife.

 

(to reference a book nobody but me has read)

Now he will lie under a meadow and heac the grass sing.

I wonder where you are
I wonder if you think about me
Once upon a time
In your wildest dreams

May he find his Forever Afternoon

Sister Jean gives up the ghost at 106.

100 and two 3-pointers

Oh well

Not shedding any tears over that one.

Diane Keaton, actress, age 79. Diane Keaton - Wikipedia

“La di da, la di da, I guess.”

Not a human, but Cora the elephant has died at 67. She was in Smokey and the Bandit 2. She came to live at our zoo in Topeka, Kansas. There was another elephant, an African she spent decades with and the zookeepers are keeping a watch on him since Cora was a long time companion.