# The Celebrity Death Pool 2008 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2007, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439 "2007-12-01T11:46:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 32
**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 3, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/621 "2008-03-03T05:56:01Z")
I guess someone needs to put it here to make it official. [Jeff Healey](http://www.ejazznews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=9191&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0) dead at age 41. There is a thread going on in CS but you are not officially dead until you get posted in the Death Pool. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/622 "2008-03-03T18:58:58Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] There is a thread going on in CS but you are not officially dead until you get posted in the Death Pool. [/QUOTE] So until your post he was just mostly dead? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/623 "2008-03-03T20:02:47Z")
There should be a post that JUST shows the scores, with announcements of the newly departed to remain here. In related news, my 13 remain disgustingly alive, although I have high hopes Fidel and the Grim Reaper will have a sit-down together soon. ---
**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 3, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/624 "2008-03-03T22:00:26Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] So until your post he was just mostly dead? [/QUOTE] I prefer undead. Like Keith Richards. [Janet Kagan](http://www.sfwa.org/news/2008/jkagan.htm) has died of COPD at age 63. She was a Hugo award winning science fiction author. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/625 "2008-03-04T19:29:51Z")
[Gary Gygax](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080304/ap_en_ot/obit_gygax) has failed a critical save. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/626 "2008-03-05T20:54:53Z")
> [@](#): > > PATRICK Swayze only has five weeks to live, it has been claimed. > > The Ghost actor is reportedly suffering from a particularly vicious form of pancreatic cancer which has now spread to his other organs, and is not responding to treatment. Source: [http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23327813-10388,00.html](http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23327813-10388,00.html) Swayze is 55. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/627 "2008-03-05T21:05:39Z")
[QUOTE=Duckster] Source: [http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23327813-10388,00.html](http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23327813-10388,00.html) Swayze is 55. [/QUOTE] wow. eta ☹☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/628 "2008-03-05T21:08:41Z")
[Buddy Dial,](http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/2008-03-04-3247243817_x.htm) who averaged 20.8 yards per catch (the National Football League’s second-highest all-time mark) during his career as a wide receiver, has died at the age of 71. Dial starred for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1959 to '63 before finishing his NFL tenure during a '64-'66 stint with the Dallas Cowboys. ---
**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 5, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/629 "2008-03-05T21:59:41Z")
[QUOTE=Duckster] Source: [http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23327813-10388,00.html](http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23327813-10388,00.html) Swayze is 55. [/QUOTE] The original story was posted online by the National Enquirer; I have seen no other independent reports of this. To be taken with a very large grain of salt. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/630 "2008-03-05T22:42:04Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] The original story was posted online by the National Enquirer; I have seen no other independent reports of this. To be taken with a very large grain of salt. [/QUOTE] This is true. However, the story is now on CNN. While CNN may be quoting the same source, we only need to wait a few more weeks to confirm the story or not. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/631 "2008-03-05T23:29:44Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] [Janet Kagan](http://www.sfwa.org/news/2008/jkagan.htm) has died of COPD at age 63. She was a Hugo award winning science fiction author. [/QUOTE] Oh, I just saw this. I really like her collection of Mirabile stories. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/632 "2008-03-06T02:56:34Z")
So, is anybody gleefully rubbing their hands and waiting for Swayze’s press conference? I mean, er, does anyone have him this year? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/633 "2008-03-06T03:15:20Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] So, is anybody gleefully rubbing their hands and waiting for Swayze’s press conference? I mean, er, does anyone have him this year? 😉 [/QUOTE] No. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/634 "2008-03-06T03:30:49Z")
[QUOTE=amarone] No. [/QUOTE] If he hold out another 9 months some of us will get some points next year. Patrick, we’re (temporarily) rooting for you! ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/635 "2008-03-08T03:39:18Z")
Two deaths to report: [Francis Pym, who went from being Thatcher’s Foreign Secretary to a leading critic of her policy within the Conservative Party, is dead at 86](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7283896.stm) [Norman Smith, who worked in the music industry as an engineer, producer, and (under the name “Hurricane Smith”) had several hits as a performer in the UK and US, died at 85](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7284108.stm) ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/636 "2008-03-09T00:26:44Z")
And Thatcher herself has been hospitalized for “tests.” I think I have her… ---
**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 9, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/637 "2008-03-09T00:50:29Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] And Thatcher herself has been hospitalized for “tests.” [/QUOTE] [She’s already been discharged](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/thatcher-back-at-home-after-hospital-tests-793490.html), and walked out under her own power. Damn that socialized medicine! ---
**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 13, 2008, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/638 "2008-03-13T05:39:45Z")
Senator Howard [Metzenbaum](http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/12/metzenbaum.obit.ap/index.html) dead at the low score of 10 points. I mean 90 years old. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/639 "2008-03-17T14:34:00Z")
[Mikey Dread](http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lifestyle/html/20080315T200000-0500_133588_OBS_MIKEY_DREAD__GONE_FROM_THE_CONTROL_.asp), influential Jamacian reggae toaster, dead of a brain tumor at age 54. Mikey played with The Clash and influenced their musical direction. R.I.P. Mikey ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/640 "2008-03-17T14:41:40Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] Senator Howard [Metzenbaum](http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/12/metzenbaum.obit.ap/index.html) dead at the low score of 10 points. I mean 90 years old. [/QUOTE] Harumph. On my Old Geezer List, ten points is a _high_ score. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439.md?page=31) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439.md?page=33)