I didn’t remember him even after seeing his photo/video. He died “suddenly” on Dec 31 2016… 40 is very young/sad…
Kinda ironic. Perhaps they should rename the show.
This got me thinking on a snowy day. According to this Wiki page, removing duplicate seasons, there have been 500 different contestants on Survivor, and 4 died:
2 from cancer, 1 from a “railroad accident” and the most recent cause “unknown”.
US Cancer Society lists a 12% incidence of breast cancer and 2 out of 234 Survivor contestants died from breast cancer thus far for a 0.008% incidence… much lower for Survivor players.
Impossible to know the exact cause of one of the “unknowns” but the CDC lists the risk of accidental death at 43/100,000 or 0.00043%. 2/500 is .004 or 10x higher than the population.
Overall, 4/500 or 0.008% of the Survivor population has died, 3 at age 27, 37, 40.
In 2011 134,525 people died before age 40, or .0004% of the population (based on 320mil). In Survivor 3/500 or 0.006%.
Not sure what all this means, but playing Survivor may be a risk factor for early death
Nobody had Milt Schmidt, George Kosana, Om Puri, Jeremy Stone, Stephen McDonald, or Dan Kay.
Francine York, Actress, 22 points
Columnist Nat Hentoff made it to 91.
I know that no one had him, but if someone did, why would he count for the 2017 Death Pool?
I think when they died is more important than when we found about it. Can we get a ruling on this?
I had no idea he was still alive; used to be a big fan.
Just chatting it up… death was in 2016 but brought up in the 2017 thread…
No one gets out of life alive.
Each time I see this thread at the top I get excited, then am disappointed. The tension is getting hard to bear!
Jazz critic Nat Hentoff has died at 91.
See posts 486-490.
Just read an article that stated Charles Manson is gravely ill. Since I didn’t see his name on any list, maybe it will be his time…
See posts 435-439. Nema98 has him, see post #200.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former Iranian President, 18 points
Peter Sarstedt (Where do You go to, my lovely) has died. Sounds a horrible way to go.
It seems like some close to the family jumped the gun and assumed he was dead. As of a short time ago Stephen McDonald was gravely ill and in a coma but still alive.
In addition to Rafsanjani,
Former Portuguese PM Mário Soares
Former Seychelles president James Mancham
Former Governor of Niger Abdulkadir Kure
It has been a bad weekend for former world leaders.
I have his boss, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Close but no cigar.