Be serious, now, there's money on this

[TheFaQQer]

It's hard to identify what you class as a fatal illness.

Ariel Sharon hasn't got one, but would be an obvious choice.

[NoddY]

Any city bankers heavily into CDO's and Hedge funds.

They spend other people's money, not their own.

[NickFitz]

You can also get some good ideas here

"Name: Louis Farrakhan, Job Description: Nutter"

[Dundeegeorge]

Thank you kindly MrRobin

Some fine selections in there.

[DimPrawn]

Any city bankers heavily into CDO's and Hedge funds.

[MrRobin]

How about some political figures/influences given current turmoil? Salman Rushdie? Nouri al-Maliki? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

You can also get some good ideas here

[Dundeegeorge]

Someone at work is organising a dead pool. Premise is we each get to nominate 3 celebrities, under 85, with no known fatal illnesses.
It runs for a month and if none of the celebs die, it rolls over to another month, with more money going into the pot. First celeb on the list dies, the nominator of that celeb wins the pot.
So who do you reckon will fall off the branch soon then?
Pete Doherty? Amy Winehouse? - drug-related deaths?
Who would you nominate and why?