Who will go in 2025?

January 2, 2025 9:29 AM

[tw celebrity deaths] The annual Death List has been posted for 2025. What famous people will probably drop in the coming year? Only 6 of the predicted 50 died in 2024 (the worst prediction in 30 years); the record was 2020, when 20 died. (Previously from 2010)
posted by Melismata (43 comments total)

I would add William Shatner, Julie Newmar, and Jacques Pepin to the watch list.
posted by briank at 9:45 AM on January 2 [2 favorites]

This was repulsive 15 years ago and it hasn’t got any better.
posted by The River Ivel at 9:47 AM on January 2 [50 favorites]

Mrs Lennon?

Ooooh they can Fuck Right Off Into The Sun
posted by Faintdreams at 9:50 AM on January 2 [23 favorites]

They can get snarky with their Descriptions; see Louis Farrakhan last year, for example. (Note it is a UK-produced web site.)
posted by Melismata at 9:59 AM on January 2 [1 favorite]

the next time I work myself into some outrage about something I'll have to reflect on the moment I clicked a link that featured a list of names of ostensibly famous people who might die in 2025

if I had time to do that,

anyway, enough internet for me today
posted by ginger.beef at 10:01 AM on January 2 [8 favorites]

I'm rooting for that bit player from Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

You know the one.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 10:03 AM on January 2 [36 favorites]

I'm putting fifty bucks on Literally Everyone.
posted by Faint of Butt at 10:07 AM on January 2 [5 favorites]

...shyeah, this is uncomfortable.
posted by jenfullmoon at 10:11 AM on January 2 [5 favorites]

They forgot to include Good Taste, most likely because they've already murdered it.
posted by vverse23 at 10:20 AM on January 2 [8 favorites]

I think I heard speculation about Mel Brooks on the radio.

I would think being on this list multiple times (like Dick Van Dyke, the #1 selection, who's been on the list 9 times already) would be a badge of honor.

Also, what could have happened to elderly people in 2020 to make it a banner year, hmmm I wonder.
posted by subdee at 10:30 AM on January 2 [10 favorites]

Worth looking at only to find out how many people you assumed were gone are still alive and kicking.
posted by biffa at 11:02 AM on January 2 [9 favorites]

Is this the kind of thing you were referring to when you said the internet has gotten much, much worse in the last 20 years?
posted by phunniemee at 11:03 AM on January 2 [25 favorites]

Not to invite the worst outcome, but Tom Lehrer is 96.
posted by Capt. Renault at 11:13 AM on January 2 [2 favorites]

The Best of the Web, you say.
posted by Lemkin at 11:13 AM on January 2 [9 favorites]

I await the inevitable NY Times trend piece: "As Generation X ages, is joking about death becoming less funny?"
posted by chavenet at 11:36 AM on January 2 [20 favorites]

This was repulsive 15 years ago and it hasn’t got any better.

The first comment you're greeted with on the 2010 MF thread linked in the Previously is literally "What a deeply, deeply unpleasant site," which should have been a sign.
posted by Glegrinof the Pig-Man at 11:49 AM on January 2 [7 favorites]

this is ghoulish. I do worry about Jane Goodall :(
posted by supermedusa at 11:54 AM on January 2 [2 favorites]

That is unpleasant indeed, although I would make an exception for #43.
posted by blue shadows at 12:01 PM on January 2

MetaFilter: what a deeply, deeply unpleasant site
posted by Captaintripps at 12:05 PM on January 2 [5 favorites]

This, this I did not need right now.
posted by tommasz at 12:14 PM on January 2 [4 favorites]

In the spirit of glasses half full: I'm amazed a lot of these people are still alive!
posted by condour75 at 12:22 PM on January 2 [3 favorites]

Plenty of things on the internet suck. This is one of them. No traffic from me.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 12:40 PM on January 2 [5 favorites]

Mrs Lennon?

Ooooh they can Fuck Right Off Into The Sun

Exalting in the misogyny and racist xenophobia of the British press of 57 years ago makes one very much a wanker. Agreed that the people who make this list can fuck off into the sun for that.
posted by oneirodynia at 12:45 PM on January 2 [7 favorites]

I’ve put a MetaTalk post in the queue asking why this post is still here because I don’t get it.
posted by Lemkin at 12:45 PM on January 2 [13 favorites]

I’m a Gen X’er who finds joking about death funny, but snarky descriptors aside, this web page seems to have forgotten to make a joke…?
posted by ejs at 12:46 PM on January 2 [6 favorites]

I await the inevitable NY Times trend piece: "As Generation X ages, is joking about death becoming less funny?"

At last, they paid attention to us!
posted by doctornemo at 1:20 PM on January 2 [6 favorites]

"I’ve put a MetaTalk post in the queue asking why this post is still here because I don’t get it."

All the mods are at the end of their shifts, so it could take a while.
posted by jonathanhughes at 1:36 PM on January 2 [3 favorites]

All the mods are at the end of their shifts

*squints* is this a clever way to tie this back into the main post content, or..??
posted by phunniemee at 1:38 PM on January 2 [11 favorites]

So my wife made me watch the end of Wicked with her yesterday. And you know what was really annoying? (Aside from everything?)

The number of times everyone kept calling the Wicked Witch by name. “Ephalba! What are you doing!” “Ephalba! Please come back!” “Ephalba! You’re going to get in trouble!”

There should be a Wicked drinking game where every time someone says “Ephalba!” you have to drink and by the end you’d be passed out.
posted by Lemkin at 3:31 PM on January 2 [1 favorite]

Some of the requirements:

-Candidates must be famous enough such that their death is confidently expected to be reported by the UK “mainstream” media

-only 25 candidates can reappear from the previous year’s list

posted by achrise at 4:27 PM on January 2 [1 favorite]

Eh, didn't bother to look, but there's one name I'd like to win that prize...
posted by BlueHorse at 6:20 PM on January 2

MeTa
posted by glonous keming at 6:26 PM on January 2 [2 favorites]

Hmmm. So "bitching and moaning" is "the worst of Metafilter" but speculating about people dying is fine? Interesting!
posted by mydonkeybenjamin at 6:31 PM on January 2 [3 favorites]

Strange list, in that the person most of us wouldn't mind being on it - isn't.
posted by stormyteal at 7:43 PM on January 2 [3 favorites]

I would think being on this list multiple times (like Dick Van Dyke, the #1 selection, who's been on the list 9 times already) would be a badge of honor.

While picking up his 6th Emmy in September 2024, Van Dyke invited everyone to his upcoming memorial service.
posted by fairmettle at 9:43 PM on January 2 [5 favorites]

Looks like Kissinger's final appearance on the list was his 11th, so Van Dyke needs one more year to tie and another to beat him.
posted by vibratory manner of working at 11:46 PM on January 2

The record appears to be the actor Kirk Douglas, who they put on the list 18 times before his death in 2020.
posted by vibratory manner of working at 1:31 AM on January 3 [3 favorites]

I will give these people props for one thing, and that is listing Harvey Weinstein as 'Sex Offender'.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:01 AM on January 3 [7 favorites]

Fuck you, list, Mel Brooks is going to live forever.
posted by Omon Ra at 9:33 AM on January 3 [3 favorites]

God willing this website should go the way of AbeVigoda.com
posted by not_on_display at 5:08 PM on January 3

This is gross.
posted by maryellenreads at 6:41 AM on January 4

Abe Vigoda was such a pioneer.
posted by rikschell at 8:14 AM on January 4 [1 favorite]

I'm on the clock but not yet on the list.
posted by mule98J at 3:37 PM on January 6