Thoughts and Advice for Future Contestants

Start compiling your list for the following year in January.

Unfortunately, cancer just isn't the death sentence it once was.

People who have made it to 90-something did so for a good reason.

Just cuz someone's career is dead, doesn't mean they are.

Find out which diseases are life threatening, and which just make you look terrible.

It's tough to predict which junkie is gonna get a bad batch.

It's starting to appear that if you have enough money, you might beat AIDS.

Read the newspapers. They are ten times more useful for dead pools then the net.

Don't fall for the most-famous = most-likely-to-die fallacy. There are many pretty famous people who just can't wait to die.

Health care in the former Soviet Union is in shambles.

Don't think about who is at the top of the news today, think about who was at the top of the news 10, 20, etc years ago. They still count.

Keith Richards, Stephen Hawking and Charlie Sheen have made it this far.

It wouldn't have been impossible to foresee Rabin being assassinated.

People who are dying don't usually appear on Letterman. Expand your horizons.

Have a nice day.

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