I don’t understand why so many Dopers picked the Queen? She’s in rude health, has excellent healthcare and has genetics on her side (remember her mother?).
Because she is old. Duh!
Not that old (78) and pretty sprightly for it.
She’ll still be around for Celebrity Death Pool 2020, I’m telling you!
I know it’s too late to get in on the game, but I’d like to throw in Phil Anselmo as mine. I had others, but I’m pretty sure Phil’s a shoo-in.
Not only does the Queen have genetics on her side, she has a personal chef as well. Her highness has probably never wallowed in a carton of Ben & Jerry’s for breakfast and some kind of grilled cheese/hot chocolate/mash potato Comfort Food Trifecta because her family problems being aired Globally.
Me, hell, it would take a battalion of men in Busby’s to keep me away from the nachos and ice cream.
I’m worth 62 points, but only famous inside my head.
Sorry peoples.
The 4 Dopers with stone cold choices:
Pablito ¤ Idi Amin
DWToml815 ¤ A ‘forgot to remove socks’ omission
booklover ¤ Johnny Oates
Deva ¤ Johnny Oates
Questionable Selections:
HelloKitty ¤ Saddam Hussein - Is he considered a political prisoner?
EmperorRoman ¤ Ali Hassan (Chemical Ali) - Is he captured / political prisoner?
MC$E ¤ Shirley McClain - The woman’s claimed to be have died and been reincarnated a multiple number of times. Are we to assume she’s like a cat with 9 lives?
Woo Hoo! Look! I’m number 1!! I choose to see this as my choices were so brilliantly chosen that every one who posted after December 1 thought I was right and copied my list. Yeah that’s right! Why yes, I do live in my own little world.
Personally, I picked Her Majesty in hopes that she WOULDN’T die. I know I never do well on games like this, so hopefully by picking her she will contribute to my suckage.
An amazing avoidance of the already-dead! The picks of Oates don’t really count, since he was alive when selected. (The posters may have neglected to replace him, or to name an alternate, but that’s a sin of a different order.)
I see that Pablito did pick an alternate, after naming Idi Amin. What’s the word, a35362–does an alternate automatically replace an already-dead pick?
Yes – that’s what they’re for.
Nelson Mendela’s son, Makgatho Mandela died of AIDS.
I had him last year - when I met him he looked like the walking dead (large amounts of heroin will do that to a person) and I thought sure he would win the whole thing for me…result - goose egg.
The Keith Richards factor can never be ruled out when the Grim Reaper is in town. 
One of my picks was John Madden, and FTR, I mean the football one. I wasn’t aware of the other one.
I wish I had thought of her, even if she was only 14 points.
Rosemary Kennedy dies at 86.
They are getting closer to Senator Chivas.
192 hours in and no one has scored
I had no idea that Rosemary Kennedy was still around until today.
I cannot beleive we are all still virgins.
I was also surprised that Rosemary Kennedy was still alive. Wish I’d thought of her, too.
I’m sure no one had him, but the radio commentator for the New Orleans Saints, Buddy Diliberto, died yesterday at 73. As a Saints fan, I can only say 
No, nobody picked him.
Somebody needs to do a statistical analysis of how many times a35362 says that in a year. 