TWID - United Nation's Day Edition

This Week in Death brings you: Notes and news covering a week's worth of health and death. How Old is Ruby Mohammad, you ask? What's the latest on Ted Kennedy blocked artery? Is it true that Big Moe really died? Did someone actually fall off a roof? These questions and more answered below, in this week's edition of This Week in Death!

We'll miss two people who we lost with points this week: Deborah Kerr took her Golden Globes to Dirt-Colored Earth and Joey Bishop went from hanging with the Rat Pack to hanging with a pack of rats. We will miss you both. As always - we start with health news...

These People are at least healthier than those in the next section...

"We Meant: As Fit as a Really Sick, Weak, and Old Young Person," His Doctors Later Explained
"Iran," President Shimon Peres said, "is an imperialist state and it is no secret that they want to take over the Muslim world, the Middle East and anywhere else they can reach." The president also rejected rumors about his health. Peres said he was feeling well and added that his doctors said he was as fit as a young person.
[Jerusalem Post]

Ruby May Not be as Tarnished as Believed, This Could Effect Appraisal
Ruby Muhammad (born March 20, 1897 or March 20, 1907) is the Mother of the Nation of Islam. In 2007, research by supercentenarian tracker Filipe Prista Lucas indicated that Ruby Muhammad was most likely 'only' 100 years old (born in 1907), based on an April 1910 census listing of 3 years old.
[Wikipedia]

Next Question. Dear Billy Graham: You've Long Been Diagnosed with an Incurable Disease. Can You Give me Any Reason Not to Take Your Life Right Now? -- God
DEAR BILLY GRAHAM: I've just been diagnosed with an incurable disease that will leave me weaker and in more and more pain as the months go by. Can you give me any reason not to take my own life right now? — D.G. DEAR D.G.: The greatest burden you could ever place on your family would be for you to take your own life. Their confusion, hurt and guilt would be almost endless (no matter what you told them), for they would constantly wonder what they could have done to prevent such a terrible act and why you chose to reject their love and concern so decisively.
[Kansas City Star]

Kennedy Out of General Hospital, Back to Bold and Beautiful Self. These are the Days of His Life
Sen. Ted Kennedy is resting in his family's Hyannisport compound after he was released from Massachusetts General Hospital following surgery to clear blockage in a major neck artery. His office said he'll rest there for a few days before returning to the Senate. The blockage in his left carotid artery was discovered during a routine physical and MRI on Kennedy's back, which was injured in a 1964 plane crash.
[Boston Now]

These people are not healthy. They are dead.

McGee Takes It To The House; Lands Dead in the Coffin Corner.
Max McGee, the free-spirited Green Bay packers receiver who became part of Super Bowl lore after a night on the town, died when he fell while clearing leaves from the roof of his home. He was 75. "I just lost my best friend," former teammate Paul Hornung [said], "He shouldn't have been up there. He knew better than that." McGee caught the first touchdown pass in Super Bowl history in 1967. He didn't plan to play in the title game against the Chiefs because he violated the team curfew and spent the night before partying. "When it's third-and-10," McGee once said, "you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time."
[ESPN]

For Big Moe, Cough Syrup Was the Nighttime, Snuffing, Snorting, Guzzling So You Can Sleep Forever Medicine
Big Moe, a Houston rapper whose 2002 album reached No. 3 on Billboard's hip hop charts, has died. Big Moe, whose real name was Kenneth Moore, was 33. Bryan McLeod, a spokesman for the county public hospital system did not release a cause of death, but numerous hip hop Web sites said the obese rapper suffered a heart attack. Big Moe was a member of the late DJ Screw's rap collective the Screwed Up Click. DJ Screw died of a heart attack in 2000 after a reported overdose of codeine-laced cough syrup. The titles of Big Moe's first two albums made reference to it. His first album was called "City of Syrup" and his most successful offering was 2002's "Purple World," for the color most often associated with the drug.
[Click2Houston.com]

Kar·ma /ˈkɑrmə/ [kahr-muh]–noun: (def.) fate; destiny. (example) When the Indians Lose to the Red Sox, One Week After Bellecourt Dies
Vernon Bellecourt, an Ojibwa Indian who waged a long campaign for native rights, most visible in battling the use of Indian nicknames by sports teams, died Oct. 13 in Minneapolis. He was 75. It was as president of the National Coalition on Racism in Sports and Media that Mr. Bellecourt achieved his greatest visibility. When teams with names like the Indians, the Redskins or the Chiefs appeared in high-profile contests, he was often there to protest. He was arrested twice for burning an effigy of the Cleveland Indians' mascot, Chief Wahoo, and protested the Washington Redskins at the Super Bowl.
[New York Times]

Life to Death, It's an 82 Year Trip, as the Crowe Flies
Adm. William J. Crowe Jr., who as chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs in the Reagan administration signed an agreement with Soviet military leaders that helped reduce tensions between the superpowers, died yesterday in Bethesda, Md. He was 82. Admiral Crowe [said] the pact showed how far "the courage of our political leaders has brought us toward developing a more sustainable larger relationship."In his four years as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Crowe brought a deft diplomatic touch to a number of difficult situations.
[New York Times]

He Photographed Dr. King, But Still Took Pictures in Black and White
Ernest C. Withers, a photographer whose voluminous catalog of arresting black-and-white images illustrates a history of life in the segregated South in the 1950s and '60s, from the civil rights movement to the Beale Street music scene, died on Monday in Memphis. He was 85. Mr. Withers worked as a freelance photographer at a time when events of the day were not just newsworthy but historic occasions. He photographed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. resting at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis after the March Against Fear in 1966, and riding one of the first desegregated buses in Montgomery, Ala., in 1956, along with the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy.
[New York Times]

This Week Was Somebody's Birthday! Whose Birthday? Some Death Pool Entrants' Birthdays. How Old Are They? 1,2,3... And Never been Kissed By... Death
Happy Birthday to:
October 16: Suzanne Somers (61)
October 17: Robert Jordan (59)
October 17: Evel Knievel (69)
October 18: Chuck Berry (81)
October 18: Jesse Helms (86)
October 21: Whitey Ford (79)
October 22: Annette Funicello (65)
... And Many More!!!!!!!!

Joey Bishop accomplished many things in his life, and in death he can add one more: putting Life's a Bitch in the Top 5, booting Struck Down by Yahweh. Deborah Kerr on the other hand, helped last week's #4 move up to #2 and cut the leader's margin to the smallest its been in months . The Top 5...
1. El Esta Adead - 76 points (6 deaths)
2. Yiz-score - 74.3 points (5 deaths)
3. The Ex-Parrots - 62.3 points (6 deaths)
4. Kraut's Picks - 60.9 points (8 deaths)
5. Life's a Bitch - 53.9 points (8 deaths)

We are alive and kicking,
The Commissioner's Council