# The Celebrity Death Pool 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2010, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523 "2010-12-01T09:16:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 74
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1462 "2011-05-26T16:40:12Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > [Huguette Clark: New York’s billionaire recluse dies, aged 104](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/25/huguette-clark-manhattan-recluse-dies) > > Yes, she is over age but still a good story. > > Is a recluse the opposite of a celebrity or is a person a celebrity because of their reclusiveness? Her story has fascinated me for years. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1463 "2011-05-26T21:22:17Z")
[Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington dead at 94.](http://beta.news.yahoo.com/surrealist-leonora-carrington-dies-94-mexico-171528249.html) ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1464 "2011-05-27T00:55:57Z")
Might as well start toting up those points for Kenickie - [Jeff Conaway is brain dead](http://www.gossipcop.com/jeff-conaway-brain-dead-life-support-breathing-tube-removed-coma/) ---
**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:** [May 27, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1465 "2011-05-27T01:12:18Z")
So – condition unchanged? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1466 "2011-05-27T01:14:55Z")
Hurr hurr. 😛 I’m bummed to hear about Jeff Conaway, actually (and not just because I didn’t have him on my list this year, you vultures). I really liked his role on B5. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1467 "2011-05-27T01:25:53Z")
If we counted “Brain Dead” as actually dead, The 2011 Celebrity Death Pool would have a record amount of points. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1468 "2011-05-27T01:34:37Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > If we counted “Brain Dead” as actually dead, The 2011 Celebrity Death Pool would have a record amount of points. A lot of my users would be in that category, as well as a few Dopers. 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 27, 2011, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1469 "2011-05-27T02:41:30Z")
> [@critter42](#): > > Might as well start toting up those points for Kenickie - [Jeff Conaway is brain dead](http://www.gossipcop.com/jeff-conaway-brain-dead-life-support-breathing-tube-removed-coma/) While Zsa Zsa lives on … ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1470 "2011-05-27T05:07:55Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > While Zsa Zsa lives on … I know, right? I mean, Paul Ruebens in _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ and Alan Rickman in _Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves_ didn’t take this long to die… ---
**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:** [May 27, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1471 "2011-05-27T05:10:45Z")
If she’s still alive in December, maybe we should run a Zsa Zsa Death Pool alongside the 2012 CDP. Dibs on Feb 6 2017! ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1472 "2011-05-27T08:15:31Z")
Margo Dydek (and her unborn child) passed away. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1473 "2011-05-27T13:23:17Z")
For those that do not who [Margo Dydek](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margo_Dydek) (and I am one), Margo was a Polish basketball player who had heart attack, about 10 days ago, and then placed in a medically induced coma. She was 37. She was 7’ 2" tall, and played in the WNBA for the San Antonio Starrz and Connecticut Sun and holds the WNBA for most career block shots. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1474 "2011-05-27T13:26:45Z")
With her height and the fact that she died of a heart attack at a young age, I’d think Marfan’s Syndrome, but her Wiki page doesn’t say anything about it. Strange. And tragic. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1475 "2011-05-27T15:18:00Z")
I could have missed this but search didn’t show any mention. Joe Morello, long time drummer in the Dave Brubeck quartet, died March 12, 2011, age 82. I’m still a big fan:(☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1476 "2011-05-27T18:11:59Z")
Looks like Jeff Conaway will die today, as expected. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1477 "2011-05-27T18:26:36Z")
[Conaway is no more.](http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-jeff-conaway-overdose,0,5573271.story) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1478 "2011-05-27T19:13:38Z")
I’m sorry to hear that, and not only because he wasn’t on my list. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1479 "2011-05-27T19:13:39Z")
Conaway must be on many lists. But he is a 40 pointer so he did not die in vein, Note vein…overdose. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1480 "2011-05-27T19:15:48Z")
SLOW DOWN!! Maybe the two funniest words repeated over and over again. RIP Wheeler I hope you are peace now, say hello to Latka for me. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1481 "2011-05-27T19:39:45Z")
What got me was a report that referred to Conaway’s “untimely death”. The man was a serious drug abuser for over three decades. How was his death untimely? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=73) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=75)