# Post your oldest Death Pool list. Who's still alive? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [October 10, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-oldest-death-pool-list-whos-still-alive/822735 "2018-10-10T01:42:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [July 28, 2023, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-oldest-death-pool-list-whos-still-alive/822735/21 "2023-07-28T13:15:14Z")
My first picks: John Paul Stevens (2019) Ted Stevens (2010) \*\*\*Amy Winehouse (2011) Mary-Kate Olsen ← Alive Liza Minelli ← Alive Janet Jackson ← Alive Jade Goody ← 73 Points! Bob Barker ← Alive Tony Curtis (2010) Ron White ← Alive Tim Conway (2019) Eminem ← Alive Eddie Van Halen (2020) Analysis: - Six out of thirteen are still kicking it. - I took Ted Stevens and Tony Curtis off my 2010 list. Figures. - I’m still chasing my Jade Goody high. For one brief, shining moment, I was almost at the top. ---
**Author:** ![MeepersC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meepersc/32/12088_2.png) [@MeepersC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeepersC)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-oldest-death-pool-list-whos-still-alive/822735/22 "2023-07-28T20:55:06Z")
My only time doing it - in 2009: OJ Simpson Ted Kennedy (d. 2009) Elizabeth Taylor (d. 2011) Yoko Ono Tommy Chong Fidel Castro (d. 2016) John McCain (d. 2018) Amy Winehouse (d. 2011) Bob Newhart Brian Wilson Dean Smith (d. 2015) Patrick Swayze (d. 2009) Hank Aaron (d. 2021) Alternate Hank Williams Jr Since the only two celebrities I scored points on were shoe-ins, since they both had cancer at the time, I realized the Death Pool was not the game for me. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-oldest-death-pool-list-whos-still-alive/822735/23 "2023-07-28T21:05:33Z")
I remember that list! The year it was posted though only two of the picks died, Thurl Ravenscroft and James Stockdale. Both were 91 so I got only 18 points. Thurl Ravenscroft was the first voice for Tony the Tiger. He was also the singing voice in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I saw a picture of him and don’t know why he wasn’t in front of the camera, he looked good. James Stockdale, the admiral, was the VP running mate for H. Ross Perot. I watched the VP debate in 92 and that’s why I voted for the ticket. He could give short, to the point, and honest answers, unlike Al Gore or Dan Quayle. His response to the question about his stance on abortion rights was pure gold. He said “I believe that what a woman does with her own body is her business, period.” When the moderator looked at him as if to ask _that’s it?_ he repeated “Period,” ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-oldest-death-pool-list-whos-still-alive/822735/24 "2023-07-28T22:18:44Z")
My first list was in 2018: Norman Lloyd (d. 2021, age 106) Olivia de Havilland (d. 2020, age 104) Kirk Douglas (d. 2020, age 103) Marsha Hunt (d. 2022, age 104) Carol Channing (d. 2019, two weeks shy of 98) Betty White (d. 2021, two weeks shy of 100) Carl Reiner (d. 2020, age 98) Doris Day (d. 2019, age 97) **Eva Marie Saint: alive, age 99** **Dick van Dyke: alive, age 97** **June Lockhart: alive, age 98** Angela Lansbury (d. 2022, 5 days shy of 97) Sidney Poitier (d. 2022, age 94) Alternates: Joe Turkel (d. 2022, age 94) Conrad Janis (d. 2022, age 94) **Peggy Dow: alive, age 95** ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-oldest-death-pool-list-whos-still-alive/822735/25 "2023-07-28T22:26:00Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > > > You missed Bob Barker and Imelda Marcos in your killing spree. > > Dang, I actually did think they are deceased. > > Now, where did I put my passport? Gotta brush up on my Tagalog. Five years later and they’re both still alive. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-oldest-death-pool-list-whos-still-alive/822735/26 "2023-07-28T22:37:16Z")
That was a bold list. I did a similar one once, all pelple at least 95, but got only three points. And one died just after the year ended. That was Alicia Rhett, the last living actor in Gone with the Wind to have a significant speaking part. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-oldest-death-pool-list-whos-still-alive/822735/27 "2023-07-28T22:37:31Z")
The very first SDMB Death Pool list… …and the five people still alive twenty-four years later. Leo DiCaprio Snoop Dogg Robert Downey Jr Kate Moss Roseanne Plus the five people who died, but not in 2000. Kirk Douglas Richard Pryor Anna Nicole Smith Elizabeth Taylor Scott Weiland ---
**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:** [July 28, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-oldest-death-pool-list-whos-still-alive/822735/28 "2023-07-28T23:20:27Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Ok looks like 2005. I believe I came up with a big goose egg for the year > > Axl Rose > Whitney Houston (died 2012) > Steve Jobs (died 2011) > Elizabeth Taylor (died 2011) > Gerald Ford (died 2006) > James Earl Jones > Willie Mays > Henry Kissinger > Colin Farrell > Peter O’Toole (died 2013) > Ed Koch (died 2013) > Willard Scott > James Brown (died 2006) Posted from above in this thread. 5 years later not a lot more movement. RIP Willard. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2023, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-oldest-death-pool-list-whos-still-alive/822735/29 "2023-07-29T01:21:48Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Wilford Brimley He did die in 2020. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-oldest-death-pool-list-whos-still-alive/822735/30 "2023-07-29T04:30:07Z")
All of my subsequent lists used the same theme of entertainers over 90. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2023, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-oldest-death-pool-list-whos-still-alive/822735/31 "2023-07-29T15:56:50Z")
2013 was my first year The Dead: George H.W. Bush Mary Tyler Moore Billy Graham (AKA Wayne Coleman, the wrestler) Hugo Chavez Jalal Talabani Penny Marshall Roger Ebert Aretha Franklin Muhammad Ali Johan Friso (my alternate who died that year and would have been worth a lot and a unique pick) The Living: William Perry (the Fridge) Pete Doherty Rick Ross Artie Lange ---
**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:** [July 29, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-oldest-death-pool-list-whos-still-alive/822735/32 "2023-07-29T21:40:53Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > Artie Lange Ah, Artie, one of the great Death Pool survivors of the past. I had him more likely to die than almost any addicts. He just looked like he’d spiral to death. Very glad he cleaned up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-oldest-death-pool-list-whos-still-alive/822735.md?page=1)