# 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:** 84
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1661 "2013-08-17T02:43:20Z")
> [@For You](#): > > If your other 11 picks were to make it to January, would it be possible for anyone else to score and come in lower than where you are now? I’m not sure. I’d have to go over those who haven’t yet scored, and check the ages of their picks. If someone has, say, a 98 year old that dies, without any other scoring, that would come in lower than mine. I’ve had a 99 year old, and a 98 year old die, for a total of three points. My 100 year old is a cinematographer, Douglas Slocombe. Possibly best known as doing the cinematography for the first three Indy Jones movies. His birthday was in February, so he would have had to kick off before then to give me points, rather than just a chance at a unique pick. ---
**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 17, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1662 "2013-08-17T15:42:30Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > [Allan Glover Lanier](http://www.blueoystercult.com/MainFrame.html) of Blue Oyster Cult is dead at 67. He had a fever…a fever that could only be cured with more cowbell. Can’t…stop…laughing… ---
**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 19, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1663 "2013-08-19T19:54:37Z")
Actor Lee Thompson Young, from _Rizzoli & Isles_ and the Disney Channel show\* The Famous Jett Jackson\*, [dead by suicide at age 71 points.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-lee-thompson-young-dead,0,389133.story) ---
**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:** [August 19, 2013, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1664 "2013-08-19T23:59:43Z")
Second 29 yr old in a week to commit suicide. Very disconcerting. Sincerest condolences to their families. May they find the peace that eluded them in life. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1665 "2013-08-20T00:58:35Z")
Meanwhile, all my picks are doing much better now. Sigh. Buncha celebrity ingrates all of 'em! ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1666 "2013-08-20T02:05:55Z")
> [@Kitten\_Mitten](#): > > Second 29 yr old in a week to commit suicide. Very disconcerting. > > Sincerest condolences to their families. May they find the peace that eluded them in life. Disconcerting is right - add in Monteith who was only two years older and you still have them dying too old… ummm…before anyone looks at me that way, “Dead at 27” was my theme this year - yep, feast or famine…and unless Bynes or Lohan kick it into high gear, famine it is… ---
**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:** [August 20, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1667 "2013-08-20T02:15:15Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Meanwhile, all my picks are doing much better now. Sigh. Buncha celebrity ingrates all of 'em! You should sell life insurance, already. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1668 "2013-08-20T02:58:47Z")
> [@critter42](#): > > Disconcerting is right - add in Monteith who was only two years older and you still have them dying too old… Same thing happened last February when you had Mindy McCready and Mark Balelo commit suicide in the same week. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1669 "2013-08-20T13:42:39Z")
Elmore Leonard has died. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1670 "2013-08-20T13:56:13Z")
[Link](http://www.freep.com/article/20130820/ENT05/308200074/Elmore-Leonard-Dies-Get-Shorty) to Elmore Leonard story. ---
**Author:** ![J-P\_L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/j-p_l/32/3156_2.png) [@J-P\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J-P_L)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1671 "2013-08-20T20:06:15Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > You should sell life insurance, already. There’s an interesting business proposition, charge celebrities to put them on your list, thus ensuring they don’t die during the year! ---
**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 20, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1672 "2013-08-20T21:52:19Z")
> [@J-P\_L](#): > > There’s an interesting business proposition, charge celebrities to put them on your list, thus ensuring they don’t die during the year! For a fun, homemade feel, why not make your own advertising materials with letters cut from newspapers? “If you want to live through the year, pay me $$$”. I think they’d appreciate the personalised touch. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1673 "2013-08-20T22:02:12Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > For a fun, homemade feel, why not make your own advertising materials with letters cut from newspapers? “If you want to live through the year, pay me $$$”. I think they’d appreciate the personalised touch. An excellent idea! Are you getting all this, Swampbear? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1674 "2013-08-20T23:03:28Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > An excellent idea! > Are you getting all this, Swampbear? Actually I was thinking more along the lines of selling my list to People Magazine so they can publish a story entitled “Thirteen Celebrities That Won’t Die This Year.” ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1675 "2013-08-21T00:44:11Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Actually I was thinking more along the lines of selling my list to People Magazine so they can publish a story entitled “Thirteen Celebrities That Won’t Die This Year.” Wouldn’t Buzzfeed be a better bet for a list article? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1676 "2013-08-21T10:24:06Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > Wouldn’t Buzzfeed be a better bet for a list article? Buzzfeed sounds like sump’n Purina makes to feed buzzards. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1677 "2013-08-21T18:33:43Z")
[Marian McPartland, Jazz Pianist and NPR Radio Staple, Dies at 95](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/arts/music/marian-mcpartland-jazz-pianist-and-npr-radio-staple-dies-at-95.html?pagewanted=all) I am bummed out. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1678 "2013-08-21T18:43:08Z")
Aw, man! ☹ ---
**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:** [August 24, 2013, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1679 "2013-08-24T07:45:57Z")
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/c-gordon-fullerton-former-space-shuttle-astronaut-and-famed-test-pilot-dies-at-76/2013/08/21/42164ac0-0acb-11e3-89fe-abb4a5067014\_story.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/c-gordon-fullerton-former-space-shuttle-astronaut-and-famed-test-pilot-dies-at-76/2013/08/21/42164ac0-0acb-11e3-89fe-abb4a5067014_story.html) C. Gordon Fullerton, a former astronaut who flew on two space shuttle missions and had an extensive career as a research and test pilot for NASA and the Air Force, died Wednesday, the space agency said. He was 76. Fullerton suffered a severe stroke in 2009 and had been confined to a long-term care facility in Lancaster for most of the past 3 ½ years, NASA said in a statement. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1680 "2013-08-24T13:37:18Z")
Paul Poberezny, founder of the Experimental Aircraft Association, has riveted his last wing spar: > **[Paul](https://www.eaa.org/paul/)** > > Experimental Aircraft Association > **[EAA’s Poberezny dies at 91, founded organization in garage](https://archive.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/eaa-founder-paul-poberezny-91-has-died-group-says-b9981697z1-220697101.html/)** > > Paul Poberezny, who founded the EAA in his garage, died at 91, the Oshkosh-based aviation organization announced Thursday. Brian [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=83) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=85)