# The Celebrity Death Pool 2013 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2012, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655 "2012-12-01T05:59:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 26
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/501 "2013-01-06T23:43:00Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Nobody had him. I also noted his cause of death has not been released on any of the news services I’d checked. Had he been ill? I have not heard any reports of an illness. I am assuming it was quite unexpected. ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/502 "2013-01-07T00:48:27Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > A little slow this year. So far 102 players have signed up. To meet last year’s total we need at least seventy more. > > Have I failed somehow? 😃 I am reading this thread for the first time today and this is as far as I’ve gotten so far so I don’t know what your final total is. But the fact that I didn’t submit a list is no reflection on the quality of your death mistressing. I didn’t like my thoughts in Sept and Oct, upon hearing of someone’s acute illness, and hoping that they would hold out until January. Also, I was mortified at my feelings when one of my picks died. I know posters kid about getting over those feelings but I’m not sure I want to. So, I didn’t submit this year and while I have mixed feelings, overall I’m feeling good about that. And now if someone wants to kiddingly mock me, feel free to break out in a rendition of . . . wait for it . . . “Feelings”. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/503 "2013-01-07T01:40:35Z")
My last points were for Dick Francis several years ago. I hated getting those points, since I really liked picking up his annual book. But whether I got the points or not, he would still be dead. There are quite a few people on my current list I would not like to see die, but joking about it will actually help deal with it, at least for me. (Or you could pick a list of people in public life you hate, then feeling good about them dying is not quite so icky.) One way to avoid the hoping someone makes it until January to die is a themed list, without checking on anyone’s health. That is how I put mine together. I won’t ever win the game, but I enjoy just playing. ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/504 "2013-01-07T01:46:37Z")
> [@boblibdem](#): > > lee corso- will he put on the horns or the halo? rotflmfao!!! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/505 "2013-01-07T02:09:56Z")
> [@Kitten\_Mitten](#): > > And now if someone wants to kiddingly mock me, feel free to break out in a rendition of . . . wait for it . . . “Feelings”. I’m the DM around here and _ **I** _ wouldn’t mock you. This kind of game is not to everyone’s taste, and I respect those who are squicked out about it. I enjoy it, but not because I’m gloating over even an evil dictator’s death. The test I used for myself was. _“If I was a celebrity and not an SDMB member, would I mind if someone picked me?”_ The answer came up no, for two reasons. One was that if I was chosen, that meant that people remembered me. The other was that I’m not afraid of being dead, just of the dying process. Winning points for someone would mean I was past the hard part. With a very few exceptions I don’t think many people _want_ their choices to die. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2013, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/506 "2013-01-08T04:05:08Z")
[David R. Ellis, director of Snakes On A Plane, died today at age 40 points(60 years old).](http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/snakes-plane-director-david-r-ellis-dies-60-002032126.html) ---
**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:** [January 8, 2013, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/507 "2013-01-08T04:30:54Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > With a very few exceptions I don’t think many people _want_ their choices to die. Of course not, that just makes the bastards cling to life even tighter. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/508 "2013-01-08T05:54:16Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [David R. Ellis, director of Snakes On A Plane, died today at age 40 points(60 years old).](http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/snakes-plane-director-david-r-ellis-dies-60-002032126.html) Hm. Cause of death not specified. pleaseletitbesnakebitepleaseletitbesnakebitepleaseletitbesnakebite ---
**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:** [January 8, 2013, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/509 "2013-01-08T06:12:14Z")
Rapper [Freddy E. Buhl](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/freddy-e-apparent-suicide-seattle-based-rapper-dead-22-article-1.1234975) has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at age 22. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/510 "2013-01-08T14:07:50Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Rapper [Freddy E. Buhl](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/freddy-e-apparent-suicide-seattle-based-rapper-dead-22-article-1.1234975) has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at age 22. [note to self] Go with all rapper theme in 2014 [/note to self] PROFIT (mmmm, cookies from Baker) ---
**Author:** ![Premislaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f0a364/32.png) [@Premislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Premislaus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/511 "2013-01-08T17:07:04Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [David R. Ellis, director of Snakes On A Plane, died today at age 40 points(60 years old).](http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/snakes-plane-director-david-r-ellis-dies-60-002032126.html) Reached his Final Destination. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/512 "2013-01-08T17:20:21Z")
**[Richard Ben Cramer Dies at 62; Wrote of Presidential Race](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/us/politics/richard-ben-cramer-dies-at-62-chronicled-presidential-politics.html)** “Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and the author of “What It Takes,” a superbly detailed account of the 1988 presidential election …” ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/513 "2013-01-08T19:06:08Z")
I’ve spent a bit of time making a bookmark folder in Chrome linking to the wiki pages of all my picks. Is this… erm… normal? I just feel an urge to go wash my hands a lot, is all. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/514 "2013-01-08T19:13:58Z")
> [@Teuton](#): > > I just feel an urge to go wash my hands a lot, is all. Blood stains? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/515 "2013-01-08T20:34:24Z")
> [@Teuton](#): > > I’ve spent a bit of time making a bookmark folder in Chrome linking to the wiki pages of all my picks. Is this.. erm.. normal? I just feel an urge to go wash my hands a lot, is all. Take a look at my list as I posted it!😃 I kept the document and the links. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/516 "2013-01-08T22:18:47Z")
I’ve got a spreadsheet with each person’s name, risk category, date of birth, and a couple of columns that use a formula to automatically update their age and point value. I have no shame. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/517 "2013-01-09T00:55:21Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > I’ve got a spreadsheet with each person’s name, risk category, date of birth, and a couple of columns that use a formula to automatically update their age and point value. I have no shame. 😃 So whose list(s) have the highest risk? And how is risk determined? ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/518 "2013-01-09T01:17:17Z")
[Huell Howser (67)…“California’s Gold” Host. - Jan 6th.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/07/huell-howser-dead-beloved_n_2426682.html) ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/519 "2013-01-09T02:40:59Z")
> [@CAMJAY77](#): > > So whose list(s) have the highest risk? > And how is risk determined? No, I mean just the celebrities on my own list. For example, one entry from my list looks like: Bonnie Franklin pancreatic cancer 1/6/1944 69 31 ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/520 "2013-01-09T21:09:39Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > No, I mean just the celebrities on my own list. For example, one entry from my list looks like: > > Bonnie Franklin pancreatic cancer 1/6/1944 69 31 Gotcha. I have lists of my death pool picks with d.o.b. and stuff going back 8-9 years. meanwhile… Rizana Nafeek (4 February 1988 - 9 January 2013) was a Sri Lankan woman, who was executed by beheading in Saudi Arabia for unintentional homicide. Sri Lanka has unsuccessfully sought Nafeek’s amnesty. > **[Rizana Nafeek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rizana_Nafeek)** > > Rizana Nafeek (Sinhala: රිසානා නෆීක්, Tamil: ரிசானா நபீக்; 4 February 1988 – 9 January 2013) was a Sri Lankan woman convicted and subsequently executed in Saudi Arabia for the murder of four-month-old Naif al-Quthaibi. Her parents alleged that in order to get work in Saudi Arabia, the date of birth was altered on Nafeek's passport, and in reality she was under 18 when the offence took place; this made her execution contrary to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Nafeek claimed that her i... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=27)