I had the pleasure of seeing Pat Hingle on Broadway in 1776. He played Franklin.
Well, if he was performing in 1776, then he wouldn’t have been worth any points. 
It’s all my fault. I had him on my list but I bumped him to alternate and put Ed McMahon in his place. Had I kept Mr. Hingle on my list he surely would have lived for another year.
Sublight scores with Griffin Bell.
You broke my spreadsheet - I must be allowed to impose some sort of penalty for that. I correctly avoided giving you minus points, but by converting negative numbers to zero, it no longer detects it as a winning pick. So from now, all centenarians score 0.01 points, displayed to the nearest whole number.
Link: Griffin Bell, who served as attorney general in the Carter administration, has died. He was 90
10 points, and a new speed record for me.
Minnesota Twins Owner Carl Pohlad has died at age 93.
Adolf Merckle, the German billionaire who had fallen from 44th on 2007’s Forbes list of the world’s richest people to 94th in the latest rankings, has taken his own life. Merckle, 74, was hit by a train in the city of Ulm.
I guess when you are down to your last $9 billion, life just isn’t worth living anymore.
Article on Death Pools in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
Dead Pools: Dead reckoning - Celebrity death pools mortify many outsiders, but players say they’re simply having fun.
It includes a number of sites running death pools, but ours isn’t mentioned.
Thank G-d, we’re safe.
Considering the sites mentioned include cash4cadavers.com, flymetothetomb.com, stiffs.com, and youbettheirlife.com, we may have looked too wholesome.
I found a rule we should adopt here.
Siamese twins only count as one person, so long as they are still attached.
What happens if as they’re being seperated, one of them dies on the table and the other one lives for a few months, and then dies? Do we have to figure the months in the scoring for the twin that lived the longest? Or do we just round down and make them equal with their deceased sibling?
We split the points in half. Duh!
Dammit, we’re supposed to be morbid, not needlessly offensive. They’re cojoined twins. Not that needlessly reactionary and racist term. (pious smile)
Then you get NO points. Imagine you choose Kang&Kodos, who are separated into Kang AND Kodos. Kang dies, but NOT Kang&Kodos. Kodos eventually dies, but NOT Kang&Kodos.
Kang&Kodos no longer exists, but hasn’t died. It’s the same as picking an immortal. 
Only if they both die during separation do you get points, and they count as one.
The matter of conjoined twins is moot. They’re only separated as infants or toddlers, making them invalid picks because they’re under 18 years old.
Boyo, you’re evil. I like that in a person.