# Celebrity Death Pool 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2015, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098 "2015-12-01T05:57:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 58
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1142 "2016-03-28T05:27:53Z")
> [@lel](#): > > I was just coming here to point that out. šŸ˜ƒ > > Then again, if I had two spots in the death pool list, what would be the implications of that? The mind boggles. Can you die twice? ā€œDying is easy, comedy is hardā€. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1143 "2016-03-28T20:54:44Z")
[Mother Angelica](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/global-catholic-network-founder-mother-angelica-died-37972494), the Catholic nun who in 1981 began a religious talk show that served as the basis for the Eternal Word Television Network, died on Easter Sunday at the age of 92. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1144 "2016-03-28T21:17:44Z")
Well, for a Christian I suppose thereā€™s no better day. My father, over thirty years ago had a heart attack on Holy Saturday. The next afternoon, on Easter, he coded and said he woke up to a nurse beating him on the chest yelling for him to wake up. ā€œI never felt a thingā€ he told us later, "but if Iā€™d died what better time for it? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1145 "2016-03-28T21:46:48Z")
Better would be to die on Good Friday and come back on Easter. ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1146 "2016-03-28T21:48:28Z")
Better would be not to die ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1147 "2016-03-28T23:17:02Z")
We all got it cominā€™. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1148 "2016-03-28T23:18:54Z")
The problem with not dying would be outliving those you love and care about. Ask Tom Hankā€™s character in _The Green Mile_. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1149 "2016-03-29T01:03:47Z")
> [@CAMJAY77](#): > > Better would be not to die Indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1150 "2016-03-29T10:44:48Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Well, for a Christian I suppose thereā€™s no better day. My father, over thirty years ago had a heart attack on Holy Saturday. The next afternoon, on Easter, he coded and said he woke up to a nurse beating him on the chest yelling for him to wake up. ā€œI never felt a thingā€ he told us later, "but if Iā€™d died what better time for it? This reminds me of an anecdote from a paramedic I had the pleasure of working with several times (who looked just like Peter Griffin. I kid you not. Nor am I being hyperbolic). I may get a few of the details wrong, but the gist is the same: EMS was called to the local Texas Roadhouse for an elderly man who had passed out. Upon arrival, they checked vital signs. Nothing. The guy died mid-steak. Face down in a pile of mashed potatoes. The crew puts him on the stretcher while the paramedic gets the drugs heā€™s going to need ready. When they go to place the stretcher in the back of the squad, they jolt the stretcher lining it up with the bracket that keeps it from rolling around. When that happens, the patient jolts upright, and starts demanding to know what is going on. Scares the shit out one of the techs. The paramedic explains the situation to the patient, who starts ripping off the tape and other things that the crew was using. The patient explains that this happens to him ALL THE TIME. He says he wants to go back and finish his food. The paramedic tries to reason with the patient, who will NOT allow himself to be transported to the hospital. Paramedic calls our Medical Control, who advised that, since heā€™s awake and oriented at this point, he cannot be forced to go to the hospital. Just make sure to document the hell out of it. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1151 "2016-03-29T12:17:24Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > The problem with not dying would be outliving those you love and care about. Ask Tom Hankā€™s character in _The Green Mile_. You could find new people to care about. Sure it would be a bummer to lose people. The bigger problem with Hanksā€™ character is that his life in elongated. He isnā€™t young and healthy for a long time. He is an old man for a very long time. That has to suck. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1152 "2016-03-29T16:33:36Z")
Oscar and Emmy-award winning actress Patty Duke dies at the age of 69. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1153 "2016-03-29T17:17:01Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Oscar and Emmy-award winning actress Patty Duke dies at the age of 69. [so says NBC.com](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oscar-winning-actress-patty-duke-dead-69-n547326) I say NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! ---
**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:** [March 29, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1154 "2016-03-29T17:19:50Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Oscar and Emmy-award winning actress Patty Duke dies at the age of 69. [Link for Patty Duke.](http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/03/29/oscar-winning-former-child-star-patty-duke-dies-age-69/82382666/) Her identical cousin lives onā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![rucciface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@rucciface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rucciface)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1155 "2016-03-29T17:21:54Z")
James Noble of ā€œBensonā€ fame dead at 94. > **[ā€˜Bensonā€™ Star James Noble Dies at 94](https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/james-noble-dead-dies-benson-1201740875/)** > > James Noble, best known for his role as Gov. Eugene Gatling on ā€œBenson,ā€ died on Monday in Connecticut, The New York Times reports. He was 94. The actor diedĀ at Norwalk Hospital after sā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1156 "2016-03-29T19:12:23Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > You could find new people to care about. Sure it would be a bummer to lose people. The bigger problem with Hanksā€™ character is that his life in elongated. He isnā€™t young and healthy for a long time. He is an old man for a very long time. That has to suck. That drunk Noah lived 950 years. Iā€™m sure he made plenty of friends, especially after he invented wine ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1157 "2016-03-29T19:59:09Z")
Duke and Noble are boith pointless deaths.ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1158 "2016-03-29T20:58:54Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > [Link for Patty Duke.](http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/03/29/oscar-winning-former-child-star-patty-duke-dies-age-69/82382666/) > > Her identical cousin lives onā€¦ I hear she liked to Rock and Roll, A hot dog would make her lose controlā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1159 "2016-03-29T21:38:30Z")
_Seinfeld_ actor Earl Schuman dead at 100. (Zero points). He played the father of Lloyd Bridgesā€™ character on the Seinfeld episode ā€œThe English Patient,ā€ which first aired on NBC in March 1997. Schuman plays Izzy Mandelbaum Sr., whose son is an ultra-competitive 80-year-old (Bridges) who throws out his back after challenging Jerry to a weightlifting competition. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1160 "2016-03-29T21:50:47Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > _Seinfeld_ actor Earl Schuman dead at 100. (Zero points). > > He played the father of Lloyd Bridgesā€™ character on the Seinfeld episode ā€œThe English Patient,ā€ which first aired on NBC in March 1997. Schuman plays Izzy Mandelbaum Sr., whose son is an ultra-competitive 80-year-old (Bridges) who throws out his back after challenging Jerry to a weightlifting competition. [Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcFSOnumgZA) ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1161 "2016-03-29T23:56:09Z")
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