# 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:** 52
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1022 "2008-08-18T14:42:36Z")
If I could add a few more comments about Leroy Sievers… In addition to the innumerable awards he won he should also be remembered as the creator of “The Fallen” on ABC news in which Ted Kopple read the names of all America’s dead from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s kind of hard to believe now, but that was actually quite controversial at the time. Siever’s cancer blog was, to me, far more informative and inspirational than anything Randy Pausch said. His last entry was about a day before his death > [@](#): > > He is the dog we never had. > > He’s a Bernese Mountain dog. A big one. We always knew what his name was going to be …“Spanky” … no matter what. > > The fact that he would be a toy didn’t really bother us. We couldn’t have a real one because we both traveled too much. > > So here he is, sitting with me on the bed. My comrade in cancer. > > A boy and his dog. Carpe Diem. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1023 "2008-08-19T16:08:43Z")
Bernie Mac gets multiple posts, while [Bernie Brillstein](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Brillstein) goes unmentioned until now. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1024 "2008-08-20T03:39:10Z")
Dave Matthews Band sax player [LeRoi Moore dies at age 46](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_en_mu/obit_leroi_moore_6). ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1025 "2008-08-20T11:50:07Z")
Journalist and bone marrow campaigner [Adrian Sudbury](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/7571810.stm) has died. That’s 73 points for someone, but not me. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1026 "2008-08-20T17:30:38Z")
Ohio Congresswoman [Stephanie Tubbs Jones](http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/ohio-station-tubbs-jones-may-be-taken-off-life-support-2008-08-20.html) may become a surprise score. As I post this, she is still hanging in there. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1027 "2008-08-20T18:32:32Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] Ohio Congresswoman [Stephanie Tubbs Jones](http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/ohio-station-tubbs-jones-may-be-taken-off-life-support-2008-08-20.html) may become a surprise score. As I post this, she is still hanging in there. [/QUOTE] Fox News just reported on the radio that she has now died. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1028 "2008-08-21T03:08:07Z")
[Hua Guofeng, who replaced Zhou Enlai as premier of China and Mao Zedong as CCP Chairman, has died at 87](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7572298.stm) ---
**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:** [August 21, 2008, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1029 "2008-08-21T11:48:45Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] Fox News just reported on the radio that she has now died. [/QUOTE] [Linky-loo](http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/rep.-tubbs-jones-dead-2008-08-20.html) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1030 "2008-08-21T14:40:30Z")
[Gene Upshaw](http://www.mcall.com/sports/sns-ap-fbn-obit-upshaw,0,624466.story). Pancreatic cancer diagnosed just last Sunday. :eek: ---
**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:** [August 21, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1031 "2008-08-21T14:49:46Z")
[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker] [Gene Upshaw](http://www.mcall.com/sports/sns-ap-fbn-obit-upshaw,0,624466.story). Pancreatic cancer diagnosed just last Sunday. :eek: [/QUOTE] A lot of ex-football players will love this news. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1032 "2008-08-21T16:04:33Z")
Actor Julius Carry, perhaps best known for playing Lord Bowler on _The Adventures of Brisco County_ and Sho’nuff in _The Last Dragon_, [has died of pancreatic cancer at 56](http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117990885.html?categoryId=25&cs=1). Such a bummer; I loved him on _Brisco_. That was one of his most prominent roles, and it’s strange that the linked variety obit doesn’t mention the show at all. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1033 "2008-08-21T23:46:55Z")
[QUOTE=cbawlmer] Actor Julius Carry, perhaps best known for playing Lord Bowler on _The Adventures of Brisco County_ and Sho’nuff in _The Last Dragon_, [has died of pancreatic cancer at 56](http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117990885.html?categoryId=25&cs=1). Such a bummer; I loved him on _Brisco_. That was one of his most prominent roles, and it’s strange that the linked variety obit doesn’t mention the show at all. [/QUOTE] Doggone. I also remember him on _Doctor Doctor_ with Matt Frewer, and he was great on that too. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1034 "2008-08-26T13:20:04Z")
The author of 100 Things To Do Before You Die has finished working on his list. He was only 47. > **[Co-wrote 100 Things to Do Before You Die](https://www.latimes.com/la-me-freeman26-2008aug26-story.html)** > > Dave Freeman, an advertising agency executive who co-wrote "100 Things to Do Before You Die," an adventure-seeking and often unconventional travel guide that personified the way he lived his life, has died. ---
**Author:** ![Tazmanian\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tazmanian\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tazmanian_Devil)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1035 "2008-08-26T14:39:52Z")
[Former NBA player Kevin Duckworth dead at 44](http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-33-225/Kevin-Duckworth--Dead-at-44.html) ---
**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:** [August 28, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1036 "2008-08-28T19:41:33Z")
Lesbian activist [Del Martin](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/27/national/main4390128.shtml) died at age 87. Her wife Phyllis Lyon was by her side. ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1037 "2008-08-28T23:12:25Z")
[Racing legend Phill Hill](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Hill) has died at the age of 81. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1038 "2008-08-29T00:30:40Z")
[Australian actor Mark Priestley has taken his own life at 32.](http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=622143) ---
**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:** [August 29, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1039 "2008-08-29T01:56:14Z")
[Tad Mosel, who received a Pulitzer Prize in Drama for _All The Way Home_, has died at 86](http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2008/08/26/pulitzer_prize_winner_tad_mosel_dies_at_86/) ---
**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:** [September 2, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1040 "2008-09-02T16:39:54Z")
Carryover from Amnesia Weekend: [Killer Kowalsi has died](http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/killer-kowalski-dies-age-81/story.aspx?guid=%7B61808FB6-EE2D-4FF0-BF49-E2BAAFD8EEEA%7D&dist=hppr) [Don LaFontaine has died.](http://www.koin.com/entertainment/entertainmenttonight/story.aspx?content_id=95e59f90-85f5-4bf7-9e0b-dc19adbb4bca) ---
**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:** [September 2, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1041 "2008-09-02T21:26:45Z")
Singer-actor Jerry Reed [dies at the age of 71](http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gtCKwgisw0t7ftgEpx3zQa1gEjtQD92UOT880). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439.md?page=51) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439.md?page=53)