One of the biggest bedblockers in deadpool history has finally let someone else have a lie down. Shivakumara Swamiji was a monk and educationalist, responsible for the founding of more than 130 schools in Karnataka state. The schools eschewed traditional Indian caste rules and treated everyone as an equal. That’s not important. What is important is how Swamiji spent the last decade of his life battling jaundice, pneumonia, gall bladder infections, liver issues, bypasses and more spells in the ICU than Dumbledore with cancer. Each and every time it looked over for our man, he somehow left hospital two days later as right as rain. Or at least sleet (he didn’t look that healthy in his dotage). His death has finally come, resulting in three days of mourning in his home state and a hospital mattress in need of a deep, deep clean.
Shivakumara Swamiji
1 April 1907 – 21 January 2019
Died aged 111 (6 picks)