Here is an update, mostly to keep this thread on the front page. With 14 entries (and waiting for **Rilchiam **to repost a plain list), we have 129 different celebrities.
Maybe people are being cagey, but we are well down on last year - we had 31 entrants by this time.
I feel like there were more “shoo-in” picks last year. I don’t know if that has anything to do with it, though.
Terry Pratchett
Kim Jong-Il
Fidel Castro
Sargent Shriver
Osama Bin Laden
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Charles Manson
Sirhan Sirhan
Hosni Mubarak
Robert Byrd
Magic Johnson
Robert Mugabe
Hugo Chavez
Alternates:
Raul Castro
Vladimir Putin
Kim Jong-Nam
Christ on a crutch, how difficult is it to Google “pancreatic cancer”? :rolleyes:
amarone’s like a guy throwing a party, and everybody’s decided to be fashionably late. Relax, guy! If you build it, they will come. 
Osama is dead. At least a lot of people think he is ,so you ,what, get half points.
Well, if that’s the extent of your research, you might as well post now.
Alan Alda
Barbara Bush (the elder)
Courtney Cox
Donna Dixon
Emilo Estavez
Fannie Flagg
Gloria Gaynor
Hugh Hefner
Janet Jackson
Kristin Kreuk
Lyndsey Lohan
Marilyn Manson
Nick Nolte
Alternates:
Ozzy Osbourne
Paula Poundstone
Ray Romano
Sylvester Stallone
I’ve tried picking all Mikes. I’ve tried picking people who share my birthday. I’ve tried picking people’s who’s last names were all Johnson. Nothing is working so far. So this year, I’m going total leech. I’m picking the first name chosen for each of the first 13 posters in this thread and no one can stop me from doing it so there.
O. J. Simpson
Muhammed Ali
Russell Johnson
Pat Burns
Kurt Angle
Seve Ballesteros
Dennis Hopper
Vernon Baker
Lindsay Lohan
Tony Curtis
Connie Newton Needham
Ronnie Biggs
Ernest Borgnine
How can I lose?
At the risk of giving away a trade secret, have you tried picking sick people? Or is that too boring?
I need to get a couple of lists together at the same PC is all…
I’m posting early on the grounds that if anyone steals my picks, they deserve to go down with me in a blaze of mediocrity.
Given up on the centenarians this year?
Yeah. It takes away from the game for me. I go for the unexpected deaths, for the most part; the big splashes. Which is why it pains me so that my little method has netted so many old people.
This looks morbid.
I’ll be posting my list later this month.
I’m THINKING!
After much consideration, forethought and blatant stealing from other Death Poolers, I present 2010’s Most Immortal Celebrities!
David Hasselhoff
Andrew Lloyd Weber
Robin Williams
Mohammed Ali
Betty Ford
Fidel Castro
Elizabeth Taylor
Charles Manson
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Pamela Anderson
Bob Newhart
Elizabeth Edwards
Seve Ballesteros
Alternates:
Bob Newhart
Margaret Thatcher
Nancy Reagan
This year I decided to post the list I prepared months ago early, but I will this time make one final correction on December 31st
This time I made an effort to look for the naughty, not nice.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi - The Lockerbie bomber.
Bernie Madoff - I hope the denials that the Ponzi schemer was sick are wrong.
Rush Limbaugh - His extreme recent weight loss puts his history of drug abuse back in the spotlight.
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Hamid Karzai** - Now that he demonstrated to be corrupt, I see the same future as Diem had in Vietnam.
Kim Jong-il - He is so ronely.
**Charles Taylor **- Ex Liberian president, will not be executed for his crimes but he may croak soon in jail.
Elizabeth Taylor - not related, this is the Hollywood star.
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Nate Dogg** - Snoop Dogg relative and singer and songwriter on his own, double chances: could die in a hail of bullets or by a new stroke.
Ron Santo - Former baseball star.
Eddie Van Halen - fading fast.
Tatum O’Neal - dealing with cocaine.
Jeff Conaway - The other driver of the grease lighting in the movie “Grease” drugs, even his doctors are abandoning him.
Edward Michael Grylls. - Daredevil, similar to “crikey!” Steve Irwin.
Alternates:
David Hasselhoff
Courtney Love
Dimitrius Underwood
Clean list:
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
Bernie Madoff
Rush Limbaugh
Hamid Karzai
Kim Jong-il
Charles Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Nate Dogg
Ron Santo
Eddie Van Halen
Tatum O’Neal
Jeff Conaway
Edward Michael Grylls
Alternates:
David Hasselhoff
Courtney Love
Dimitrius Underwood
Darn, regarding Madoff, I meant to say that:
I hope the jailers saying that the Ponzi schemer was **not **sick are wrong.
First time playing, so I’ll just throw these out. (Two I put on the list in preparation for this year’s pool have been replaced, since they died too early.)
Frank Borman
Ray Bradbury
Scott Carpenter
Freeman Dyson
Bernard Fox (actor)
Stephen Hawking
Bob Hoover
Kim Jong Il
Steve Jobs
Jerry Lewis
Shane MacGowan
Jim McDivitt
Thomas Noguchi