# Celebrity Death Pool 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2013, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193 "2013-12-01T06:00:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/141 "2013-12-10T20:52:58Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > Tommy Chong (5-24-1938) - using hemp oil to treat prostate cancer. Never a good sign. But it’s just prostate cancer. That’s like the New Jersey Generals of cancer. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/142 "2013-12-10T21:33:03Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > But it’s just prostate cancer. That’s like the New Jersey Generals of cancer. Yeah, but I bet the survival rate is high with physicians than hemp oil. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/143 "2013-12-10T22:24:40Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I tried that and it hasn’t worked for me!!! All my picks this year were at LEAST ninety five years old, and so far only two have have the decency to give me points. Hence the parenthetical part of the title. Please note that Kirk Douglas has been on my list almost ever since I started playing. Please note also that he has not dropped off my list. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/144 "2013-12-11T03:14:01Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Yeah, but I bet the survival rate is high with physicians than hemp oil. 🙂 Actually, there’s a real debate about whether physician-supervised treatment has better outcomes, overall, than doing nothing. Prostate cancer tends to afflict old guys (like 75 year old Tommy Chong), is slow to develop, and we can diagnose it very early; the argument is that if you don’t treat it, the patient is just as likely to die of something else before the prostate cancer can kill him. AFAICT the jury’s still out on this one. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/145 "2013-12-11T16:30:41Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Actually, there’s a real debate about whether physician-supervised treatment has better outcomes, overall, than doing nothing. Prostate cancer tends to afflict old guys (like 75 year old Tommy Chong), is slow to develop, and we can diagnose it very early; the argument is that if you don’t treat it, the patient is just as likely to die of something else before the prostate cancer can kill him. AFAICT the jury’s still out on this one. I just picked him as an alternate because he’s going for the weird cancer treatment option. I feel so special. I’ve never submitted a list that prompted discussion before! 😃 Speaking of, if you have Rev. Billy Graham on your list, you’d better have a good alternate picked out. I live about one county over from him and the vultures are circling. There are news crews arriving, satellite trucks and all. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/146 "2013-12-11T16:48:21Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Actually, there’s a real debate about whether physician-supervised treatment has better outcomes, overall, than doing nothing. Prostate cancer tends to afflict old guys (like 75 year old Tommy Chong), is slow to develop, and we can diagnose it very early; the argument is that if you don’t treat it, the patient is just as likely to die of something else before the prostate cancer can kill him. AFAICT the jury’s still out on this one. My Physician, the guy with hands like a catcher’s mitt, has stopped doing the exam, 🙂 as he explained to me, for the same reason. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/147 "2013-12-11T16:57:15Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > I just picked him as an alternate because he’s going for the weird cancer treatment option. I feel so special. I’ve never submitted a list that prompted discussion before! 😃 Happy to to have done my part. 🙂 > [@](#): > > Speaking of, if you have Rev. Billy Graham on your list, you’d better have a good alternate picked out. I live about one county over from him and the vultures are circling. There are news crews arriving, satellite trucks and all. Mandela was worth 5 points, Graham would be worth 5 points…any other 95 year old celebs on people’s lists? (I see one, sort of: if Helmut Schmidt is alive in another 12 days, he’d be eligible for the 5-point club.) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/148 "2013-12-11T17:00:01Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > My Physician, the guy with hands like a catcher’s mitt, has stopped doing the exam, 🙂 as he explained to me, for the same reason. Bet you didn’t object very strenuously! ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/149 "2013-12-12T02:19:16Z")
Baker-If you could, would you tabulate the uniques? ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/150 "2013-12-13T03:51:56Z")
All singers/musicians except one religious leader and one actress. Here we go for another fun filled year. Acker Bilk Boyd K. Packer Paul Anka Frankie Valli Miley Cyrus Cher Claudine Longet Angie Dickinson Neil Young Liza Minelli Britney Spears Jim Nabors Randy Travis ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/151 "2013-12-13T07:03:23Z")
Plain List of Immortals: Lindsey Lohan Bob Dole Prince Valerie Harper Ariel Sharon Fidel Castro Ron White Bill Clinton Kirk Douglas George HW Bush Jay Z Jodi Arias Michael Douglas ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/152 "2013-12-13T11:03:23Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Baker-If you could, would you tabulate the uniques? As of now there are 406 different names selected, 330 of which are unique. they may stay that way or they may not. For 2013 there were 610 uniquely picked names. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/153 "2013-12-13T16:59:52Z")
Wow, would never have guessed 330 uniques! … ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/154 "2013-12-13T19:11:34Z")
Just a few changes from my 2013 list: Rob Ford Roky Erickson Roger Moore Jenny McCarthy Orson Scott Card Tony Iommi Lenny Dykstra Sly Stone Robert “Sgt Slaughter” Remus Pet Rose Ed Asner Abe Vigoda Carrie Fisher Alternates: Grace Slick Charlie Sheen ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/155 "2013-12-13T20:30:56Z")
On my list would you please drop Cher into alternate position and add Ray Price into primary? So my list would be: Acker Bilk Boyd K. Packer Paul Anka Frankie Valli Miley Cyrus Ray Price Claudine Longet Angie Dickinson Neil Young Liza Minelli Britney Spears Jim Nabors Randy Travis Alternate: Cher Many thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/156 "2013-12-13T21:49:55Z")
> [@Spiff](#): > > Just a few changes from my 2013 list: > > Pet Rose Is this _ **Pete** _ Rose?😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/157 "2013-12-13T23:19:08Z")
> [@Rico](#): > > On my list would you please drop Cher into alternate position and add Ray Price into primary? > > So my list would be: > > Acker Bilk > Boyd K. Packer > Paul Anka > Frankie Valli > Miley Cyrus > Ray Price > Claudine Longet > Angie Dickinson > Neil Young > Liza Minelli > Britney Spears > Jim Nabors > Randy Travis > > Alternate: > Cher > > Many thanks. Just wanted to say thanks, I missed the boat with Ray Price, who fits in to my theme. Gonna have to jump onto that bandwagon. 😃 So my newest rendition of Doomed Country Singers goes like this, switching in Ray Price for Kenny Chesney: Don Williams Jim Ed Brown “Little” Jimmy Dickens Ray Price Tanya Tucker Harold Reid Phil Balsley Jimmy Fortune Don Reid LeAnn Rimes Charley Daniels Juice Newton Randy Travis Alts Kenny Chesney Kenny Rogers Charley Pride ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/158 "2013-12-14T01:25:03Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Is this _ **Pete** _ Rose?😃 Nah, it’s pet _rock_. But as a fad, it’s been dead for ages. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/159 "2013-12-14T01:31:48Z")
truly admire whomever it was that marketed Pet Rocks. If you can get someone to pay money for a packaged rock, well, that’s more clever than selling ice in Siberia. I never bought one, but I saw the “adoption” papers for one, instructions on introducing your rock to it’s new home. People got PAID to sit around and think up something like that. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/160 "2013-12-14T15:48:16Z")
OK, I’ve been playing this ferkakte game for almost a decade now, and I’ve had _one_ death. 2014 will be my year! **There’s a bullet (or bomb or shiv or drone or whatever) with their name on it:** 1. Bernie Madoff, b. 1938. 2. Jerry Sandusky, b. 1944 3. Kim Jong-Un, b. 1983 or 1984 4. Edward Snowden, b. 1983 5. Bradley/Chelsea Manning, b. 1987 6. Alex Jones, b. 1974 **May hasten The Sweet Release of Death, by their own hand:** 1. José Canseco, b. 1964 2. Dustin Diamond, b. 1977 **The Grim Reaper comes to collect after years of drugs, partying, and life on the edge** : 1. Lindsay Lohan, b. 1986 2. Boy George, b. 1961 3. Pete Doherty, b. 1979 4. Charlie Sheen, b. 1965 **I need a 13th pick, so I’m picking a random young person with no known drug, behavior, or health issues:** 1. Dakota Fanning, b. 1994 * * * Plain List: Bernie Madoff Jerry Sandusky Kim Jong-Un Edward Snowden Bradley Manning Alex Jones José Canseco Dustin Diamond Lindsay Lohan Boy George Pete Doherty Charlie Sheen Dakota Fanning Alternates: George HW Bush Bob Barker Woody Allen [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=9)