Death happens. Why not make it interesting?
The online competition to guess which famous people won't make it to the end of the current year. If they're elderly, ill, or just live a high-risk lifestyle, stick 'em in your team, and for each one whose death you correctly predict, you'll score points. DDP was dreamt up in Derby, England (hence the name...) by Big Iain back in 1996. Other hosts: Siegfried Baboon and Rude Kid (2003-7), Octopus of Odstock (2008-9, first tenure), The Man in Black (2010-17), Spade Cooley (2018-19), msc (2020-21), Grim Up North (2020-22), Reptile (2020-23), and Death Impends (2022-2025). Now the Committee of Banana (2023), time (2024), the returning Octopus of Odstock (2026) and the deadpooling equivalent of a gap year temp Marlfox (2026) oversee the biggest deadpool going...
COMPO’S SON NOW COMPOST Last of the Summer Wine actor Tom Owen has died aged 73. The son of LotSW stalwart Bill Owen, the younger Owen’s character Tom Simmonite was the long-lost son of “Compo” Simmonite and was introduced to the fold after the elder Owen’s death. Initial plans to have Tom Simmonite fill in […]
ELA VA PICK Indian activist Ela Bhatt has died aged 89. Heavily inspired by Gandhi, she founded the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in 1972 with the goal of building up women in the workforce. She accomplished that and then some, with SEWA membership hovering around 2 million and Bhatt receiving numerous awards for her […]
NO LONGER A SURVIVOR The tribe has spoken for Survivor contestant Roger Sexton, who has died of Lewy body dementia aged 76. He participated in the Amazon-situated sixth season, and was the 7th contestant to be voted out. The Elders of Reality TV, a theme team of the OAPs from these types of shows, gets […]
HERMAN SQUIRMS IT Economist Herman Daly has died aged 84. A senior economist with the World Bank, he was noted for his policies pertaining to sustainable development and developing the idea of uneconomic growth. His death marks a second unique hit for Alternative in Death – The Right Deadlihood Award in this update. Herman Daly21 […]
DOW CRASHES That gift horse for deadpooling writers – a golfer who dies of a stroke. Dow Finsterwald won 12 PGA Tours, most notably the 1958 PGA Championship, where he eked past Billy Casper. Said tourney was notable for being the first PGA Championship to use stroke play instead of match play, because the former […]
COME HOME TO ROOSE Theatre director James Roose-Evans has died aged 94. The founder of Hampstead Theatre, he was noted for an emphasis on spiritualism and meditation in his projects. His West End production of 84, Charing Cross Road met with rave reviews. He was picked by Special:RandomInCategory/Living_people. James Roose-Evans11 November 1927 – 26 October […]
GOODNESS GRACIOUS, JERRY’S EXPIRED! After deadpoolers’ eyes were peeled following a TMZ death hoax, the great balls of fire have finally extinguished (or just begun, depending on how you look at it) for grand old hellraiser of rock-and-roll Jerry Lee Lewis, who somehow made it to 87. With a lifestyle that shook nerves and rattled […]
WON’T YOU GUIDE MY SLAY TONIGHT? Christmas keeps hitting earlier and earlier each year, so might as well get into the Yuletide spirit in October. Jules Bass joined forces with Arthur Rankin Jr. in 1960 to form production company Videocraft International. The fledgling company soon renamed itself Rankin/Bass, and the duo established themselves as a […]
SOULAGES BLACKS OUT I painted my nails black a few days before this guy died. Spoooooky. Black was the premier motif of abstract painter Pierre Soulages, who created hundreds of monochromal pieces which explored his Outrenoir, or how light plays with the textures of the black paint. An interest in the prehistoric sparked his lifelong […]
VIRAGONE Pioneering feminist publisher Carmen Callil has died aged 84. Born in Australia and raised in a stuffy convent, working on feminist magazine Spare Rib inspired her to form one of the earliest female publishing companies. She named her business Virago, after the Latin for a female warrior, and it was notable for publishing both […]
