All has been quiet in terms of pre-Groundhog Day deaths trickling in, so it looks like Thanatos Therapeuticus will take this year's crown.
I would ask that you check your people at Who's Alive and Who's Dead? if you are close to winning and it's possible that one of your people died without any of us knowing about it...
On the 9th, barring any miracles, I will close up shop here permanently and move on to DW2K8.
--Grim
DW2K7ers,
Well, it's been a great year, insofar as death is concerned.
This is the time of year where I encourage each player to double-check each person on her list to make sure that nobody was missed.
Time is growing short, and if nothing changes in the next couple of days, Thanatos Therapeuticus will wrestle the 2007 crown away from defending 2006 champ Roger Mortis. The OFFICIAL results will not be posted for another week after the 2nd, as we wait for obscure deaths to be reported and for dead bodies to be found.
DeathWatch 2008 is up and running, with this year's rules posted for now, as we await everyone's new lists. Please go there and bookmark it!
In the past couple of weeks, we've had several deaths that we were too busy to post on--Suzanne Pleshette, Allan Melvin (who I actually have on my list), Suharto, Christian Brando, and others. We also had relatively rushed coverage on Heath Ledger, but hey, we probably weren't going to make fun of him anyway. Please accept our apologies for the loss of focus in recent weeks.
Thanks for playing in 2007, and we look forward to serving you with only the best death coverage in 2008!
--Grim
Anna Nicole is still dead, and the offical stance seems to be "accidental drug overdose." So we here at DW2K7 will not be doubling the points for Deady Money and Wednesday. Looks like you two will have to deal with a mere 61-point lead. That leaves a slight glimmer of hope for the rest of us! But enough about the score...
Let's take a moment to look at the NINE drugs found in Anna Nicole's big-titted corpse:
*acetaminophen --big deal
*diphenhydramine (Benadryl) -- again, who cares?
*clonazepam (Klonopin) - sedative
*lorazepam (Ativan) - anti-anxiety
*diazepam (Valium) - anti-anxiety
*topiramate (Topomax) - sedative/anti-convulsant
*meprobamate - sedative
*ciprofloxacin (Cipro) - anti-bacterial agent
*methocarbamol (Robaxin) - sedative, expectorant
That's not counting traces of
*methadone
*B12
*HGH
So maybe you think nine sounds like a big number. Yet there's really nothing to write home about in there. You could probably find Benadryl and acetaminophen in most of my readers, and the others are all "calming" drugs. So she was a little too nervous, a little too fat, and a little too awake, so she binged on prescription meds and took vitamin/hormone shots in the ass until she died. Boo hoo.
Is nine drugs an impressive number? Dead performer Rick James didn't think so. The "SuperFreak" himself waited for our freshly-dead bombshell at the "Pearly Gates," pimp-slapping her upside the head for "half-assing" her overdose. It's not that he's mad at her, it's just that Rick James had been around, and knew how to PAR-TAY. Consider the nine drugs in Rick's system at the time of his untimely demise:
*alprazolam (Xanax)
*diazepam (Valium)
*bupropion (Wellbutrin)
*citalopram (Celexa) - anti-depressant
*hydrocodone (Vicodin)
*digoxin (heart medicine)
*chlorpheniramine (serotonin inhibitor)
*methamphetamine
*cocaine
Now THAT magnificent-but-now-dead bastard knew how to GET DOWN! Vikes, coke, meth -- hardcore all the way. Anna Nicole is a feeble bush-league copycat compared to the original 9-drug-overdoser!
RIP, SuperFreak...RIP.
After yesterday's tragic (though clearly predictable) death of Anna Nicole Smith, many questions remain. What will happen to her poor daughter, what will happen to her myriad court cases, was she married to Howard K. Stern? The most important question to the sick bastards of DW2K7 is: Did she do it on purpose?
Let me first say that there is not yet official word on the death of Anna Nicole Smith. However, several sources are reporting that Anna had attempted suicide a couple of times in recent months while living in the Bahamas. One attempt is being reported as drowning herself in a swimming pool.
In the history of DeathWatch, the suicide bonus has never been given out. The DW2K7 rules state that an accidental drug overdose does not count as a suicide. There has to be some sort of proof of intent to harm oneself. I think if there had been a suicide note, that we would have heard about it by now.
All that being said, I think the most prudent thing to do in terms of scoring will be to wait and see what the police rule it. If she ingested 30 times the dosage that it would take to kill a person (or some amount that couldn't possibly be accidental), that, combined with alleged recent suicide attempts, may be enough to give out the bonus points.
The game hangs in the balance here in the first week (122 points would almost certainly make this a 2-horse race), so the Board of Deathmasters will not take any ruling lightly.
Any comments are welcome.
Grim Reaper
