# Celebrity Death Pool 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 2, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331 "2017-12-02T13:44:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 41
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/801 "2018-06-05T19:40:02Z")
Did the scarf match her purse? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/802 "2018-06-05T19:54:32Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Did the scarf match her purse? I sure hope so. It’s a _major faux_ pas for a woman to commit suicide with a scarf that doesn’t match her purse. She’ll never live it down. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2018, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/803 "2018-06-05T20:19:04Z")
I suspect she used [the Tom Baker Scarf](https://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Scarf-Season-Official/dp/B00P1TWYRW), because that one goes with just about any Annuschka. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/804 "2018-06-06T00:28:22Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > It could have been like one of those long, crocheted winter scarves, thrown over the top of the door. Or a Tom Baker-era Doctor Who scarf. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2018, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/805 "2018-06-06T01:35:25Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > Or a Tom Baker-era Doctor Who scarf. Thrown over the tardis. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/806 "2018-06-06T04:14:14Z")
[Barbara Kafka](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/obituaries/barbara-kafka-cookbook-author-and-food-writer-dies-at-84.html), food writer and cookbook author. [Nick Meglin](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/nick-meglin/), the heart of MAD magazine. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/807 "2018-06-06T11:43:31Z")
[Jerry Maren, last surviving Munchkin, really most sincerely dead at 98.](https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210699846) I assume that he was the last surviving cast member of any sort from the movie as well. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/808 "2018-06-06T12:08:36Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > I sure hope so. It’s a _major faux_ pas for a woman to commit suicide with a scarf that doesn’t match her purse. She’ll never live it down. The Death Poolers never disappoint… ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/809 "2018-06-06T13:39:57Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > Or a Tom Baker-era Doctor Who scarf. > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Thrown over the tardis. If Tom Baker does go out this way (and preferably in a phone booth), how are the news casters going to keep a straight face reporting it? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/810 "2018-06-06T15:49:07Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > [Jerry Maren, last surviving Munchkin, really most sincerely dead at 98.](https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210699846) I assume that he was the last surviving cast member of any sort from the movie as well. Off to the see the Wizard! ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/811 "2018-06-07T01:08:09Z")
Former St Louis Cardinal Manager, Hall of Famer [Red Schoendiens](https://twitter.com/stltoday/status/1004522898571198464)t dies at 95; he was ‘Mr. Cardinal’ ---
**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:** [June 8, 2018, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/812 "2018-06-08T11:29:48Z")
Anthony Bourdain off to parts unknown. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/813 "2018-06-08T12:00:57Z")
I would bet my last dollar that this was an opiate overdose, most likely Fentanyl, possibly also involving alcohol. I’ve read all of Bourdain’s books watched all of his shows, and think he was one of the coolest guys on earth. But he’s been very open about his past struggles with heroin. If you’ve struggled with that in an ongoing way for any period of time in the past, there is ALWAYS the possibility of slipping up at any time later, and as I have said before, the opiates on the street now are SO strong that there is NO margin for error anymore. My own friends are falling left and right to this shit over the past 5 years…now a guy who had such an engaging public persona that I _feel_ like was my friend, is gone too. No matter how bad my life may get, I am never going to go back to alcohol or even dabbling in opiates. Never. Of course I could be proven wrong and it turns out that he deliberately committed suicide in some other manner, but I doubt 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:** [June 8, 2018, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/814 "2018-06-08T12:35:39Z")
> [@Jacquernagy](#): > > I would bet my last dollar that this was an opiate overdose, most likely Fentanyl, possibly also involving alcohol. > > I’ve read all of Bourdain’s books watched all of his shows, and think he was one of the coolest guys on earth. But he’s been very open about his past struggles with heroin. If you’ve struggled with that in an ongoing way for any period of time in the past, there is ALWAYS the possibility of slipping up at any time later, and as I have said before, the opiates on the street now are SO strong that there is NO margin for error anymore. > > My own friends are falling left and right to this shit over the past 5 years…now a guy who had such an engaging public persona that I _feel_ like was my friend, is gone too. > > No matter how bad my life may get, I am never going to go back to alcohol or even dabbling in opiates. Never. > > Of course I could be proven wrong and it turns out that he deliberately committed suicide in some other manner, but I doubt it. They very quickly deemed it a suicide so it must have been obvious from the onset that it wasn’t an accident. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/815 "2018-06-08T12:38:31Z")
> [@Jacquernagy](#): > > Of course I could be proven wrong and it turns out that he deliberately committed suicide in some other manner, but I doubt it. He hanged himself. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/816 "2018-06-08T13:46:21Z")
Are we sure it wasn’t food poisoning? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/817 "2018-06-08T15:31:22Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Are we sure it wasn’t food poisoning? Not unless he screwed up while trying to eat a rope. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/818 "2018-06-08T15:42:32Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Are we sure it wasn’t food poisoning? That’s cold, man. I am interested in your web site and would like an email subscription. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/819 "2018-06-08T17:08:05Z")
[Charles Krauthammer is circling the drain.](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/krauthammer-tells-colleagues-weeks-to-live) ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/820 "2018-06-08T17:54:26Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > [Charles Krauthammer is circling the drain.](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/krauthammer-tells-colleagues-weeks-to-live) so pointless… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331.md?page=40) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331.md?page=42)