Probably not one that people had on their bingo cards. Toby Keith 62 to cancer.
https://6abc.com/did-toby-keith-pass...ncer/14390405/
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Probably not one that people had on their bingo cards. Toby Keith 62 to cancer.
https://6abc.com/did-toby-keith-pass...ncer/14390405/
On another board I used to frequent, they do a death pool which some participants take very seriously. Like, people do research, and produce lists for the year (it's pick 12, score (100-age at time of death) points for each one that passes) that are filled with Australian football coaches and wives of former tennis players*, people just famous enough to have a Wikipedia page that isn't just about the late stage cancer they all have (the qualifier for "famous"). This year, they have 31 people competing. Three of them had Toby Keith on their lists. So some people were expecting this.
* This is the list for the guy who usually wins:
1. Theo Burrell - Antiques Road Show host, in late 30's, stage 4 brain cancer.
2. Mohammed Deif - Israel's most wanted terrorist, 58, just added to Europe's blacklist last year.
3. Shannen Doherty - actress, 52, stage 4 breast cancer that has spread to her brain and bones (announced in November).
4. Derek Draper - DEAD January 3, age 56: British political lobbyist and author, had long COVID and suffered a cardiac incident in December that put him back in hospital.
5. Jonnie Irwin - DEAD Feb. 2, age 50: British TV presenter (A Place In The Sun), terminal lung cancer that had been announced in 2022.
6. Erik Jensen - actor and playwright, 53, announced stage four colorectal cancer in October.
7. Steve McMichael - former pro wrestler, 66, diagnosed with ALS in 2021.
8. Dikembe Mutombo - former NBA player, 57, diagnosed with brain tumor October 2022.
9. Linda Nolan - singer (The Nolans), 64, breast cancer from 2006 metastasized to her brain in March 2023 (incurable to pelvis in 2017), has stated she would reject chemo for terminal cancer because of what it did to her deceased husband.
10. Princess Bajrakitiyabha - Thai princess, 45, collapsed due to heart condition Dec. 2022, has been in coma since Aug. 2023.
11. James Whale - British radio personality, 72, kidney cancer from 2000 was revealed to have spread to his spine, brain, and lungs in August 2020.
12. Bridgette Wilson - actress and former Miss Teen USA (married to Pete Sampras), 50, diagnosed with ovarian cancer December 2022.
So the guy already has 2 of his 12 picks dead, and we're barely into February.
I thought Steve McMichael was already dead. Also, I like how he's described as "former pro wrestler," which he was for about a few years in the late '90s, as opposed to highlighting his 14-year pro football career that includes two All-Pro nods and starting for the '85 Bears, one of the most ballyhooed defenses in NFL history.
I added the descriptions. I saw he was one of the Four Horsemen at some point, called him a former wrestler.
I suspect a lot of longtime wrestling fans would agree that Mongo McMichael joining marked the beginning of the end for the Horsemen’s relevance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
That does look like a solid list
Mojo Nixon.
DAMMIT.
And now a football HoFer.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
He left an indelible mark on the American palette:
William ‘Bill’ Post, inventor of Pop Tarts, dies aged 96
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1L18vH8v5E
Just in time for this fiscal year!
Place your bets! Everyone gets two marks. . . before the show begins!Attachment 6853
So young to just collapse like that while walking. I wonder what the cause of death was?
Alexei Navalny, vocal critic of Vladimir Putin, dies in prison: Russian government
“Sudden death syndrome”Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
I am kind of surprised nobody has mentioned Richard Lewis yet.
I think he arrived on my radar from the sitcom Anything But Love
I learned about it when one of my whack job FB friends posted it as clear evidence that vaccinations kill people. He was 76. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Eremius
Le sigh.
I wasn't aware the vaccination had such a long dormant period...Quote:
Originally Posted by Nerkahia
Well, apparently that's because you're trapped in the whole "the Earth is a globe" conspiracy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eremius
C'mon, man. Keep up!
Richard Lewis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nerkahia
If I saw him one one screen, I could recite everything else he was in without fail.
It wasn't until he died that I could remember his name.
I'll never forget it, now.
Rooster teeth
https://variety.com/2024/digital/new...ry-1235931953/
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Paul Alexander: ‘Man in the iron lung’ dies after living in tank for 70 years
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A man who lived in an iron lung for seven decades after contracting polio as a child has died.
Paul Alexander, of Dallas in Texas, US, was paralyzed from the neck down after contracting the virus at the age of six in 1952.
According to a GoFundMe page previously set up to help pay for Mr Alexander’s care, he died on Monday.
Fundraising organizer Christopher Ulmer wrote: “Paul, you will be missed but always remembered. Thanks for sharing your story with us.”
Mr Alexander died after being rushed to hospital with Covid, according to reports.
At the age of six, he was taken to hospital after developing polio symptoms and woke up inside a mechanical lung. Mr Alexander, who was given the name “the man with the iron lung”, lived inside it for the rest of his life.
The iron lung acted as a diaphragm to help Alexander breathe after a doctor performed a tracheotomy on him to remove the congestion from his lungs following his polio infection.
Because of his polio he was unable to breathe for himself.
He was unable to move or talk inside the metal casing and would often go unwashed because he was unable to communicate with the nurses looking after him.
His father placed a clear plastic stick, flat and about a foot long with a pen attached, which he uses to write and push buttons on devices such as mobile phones.
Alexander was one of many children placed inside iron lungs during an outbreak of polio in the US during the 1950s.
Later, he learned to breathe by himself and was able to spend short periods of time outside the iron lung and got into university, obtaining a law degree.
He also published his own memoir in April 2020.
“I knew if I was going to do anything with my life, it was going to have to be a mental thing,” he told The Guardian in 2020.
Polio is a serious infection that is now very rare in both the US and UK because of a vaccination program. It is now only found in a few countries and the chance of getting it is very low.
Health officials declared a national incident after the polio virus was identified in sewage samples taken from London between February and May 2022, but no associated cases appeared to have been identified.
There have been no confirmed cases of paralysis due to polio caught in the UK since 1984.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, frequent epidemics saw polio become one of the most feared diseases in the world.
A major outbreak in New York City in 1916 killed more than 2,000 people, and the worst recorded US outbreak in 1952 killed over 3,000.