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Internet death pools are probably not the most morbid thing online, but they could be the most human. It's natural to wonder about your own mortality and that of others.
How many times have you sat around a party or your workplace and opined about which celebrity would die next? Drug abuse and fast living get the gears running for pop culture's peanut gallery.
REWIND: Internet Death Pools Take Aim at Kirk Douglas, Fidel Castro and Sean Connery for 2012
I know I spend most of my days wondering when Fidel Castro will die, and some of us are tasked with writing obituaries for people who aren't even dead yet, but maybe just ailing. As journalists, we also get really good at writing obits on the fly within seconds of a death announcement.
I didn't know I knew so much about the Monkees' Davy Jones, and almost everything I knew about him was flung out onto the Internet within minutes of TMZ announcing his death last February.
Part of me wonders if any of these aged celebs are actually playing these Internet death pools themselves and betting on themselves and their friends to die.
Here are the top names that the ghouls (okay, and a little from me) are gunning for in 2013 over on Stiffs.com, who already have Patti Page's passing on their homepage.
Fidel Castro
Hugo Chavez
Bob Dole
Margaret Thatcher
George H.W. Bush
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nancy Reagan
Dick Cheney
Nelson Mandela
Richard Attenborough
James Garner
Kirk Douglas
Shirley Temple
Roger Corman
Gene Hackman
Sid Caesar
Jonathan Winters
Mel Brooks
Angela Lansbury
Peter O'Toole
Doris Day
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Abe Vigoda
Dick Van Dyke
Jerry Lewis
Don Rickles
Al Molinaro
Maureen O'Hara
Mickey Rooney
Lauren Bacall
Ed Asner
Eli Wallach
Olivia de Havilland
Annette Funicello
Carl Reiner
Stan Lee
Jerry Stiller
Bob Barker
John Glenn
Joseph Wapner
Betty White
Lindsay Lohan
Stan Musial
Muhammad Ali
Yogi Berra
O.J. Simpson
Arnold Palmer
Tommy Lasorda
Pete Seeger
George Martin
Slim Whitman
Chuck Berry
B.B. King
George Jones
Fats Domino
Little Jimmy Dickens
Sly Stone
Chuck Yeager
Billy Graham
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Hugh Downs
Sandra O'Connor
Fred Phelps
Charles Manson
Pope Benedict XVI
Don Pardo
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