How about no?

Who is sbyvl, is he knew?

Should we talk about Obiwanobiwan instead, here hasn't been seen for days and has no live games. I'm sure he's fine, but ho knows. Is there a protocol for advising the community if someone dies? Do we have a memorial wall or anything?

I was thinking the same thing about Obi. Wonder where he went? Hope he is OK and just finally got a job despite his pretentious "better than Billy Shakespeare" attitude.

It's his birthday today - Billy's not Obi's - maybe he's out celebrating.

And the anniversary of his death (Cervantes was yesterday)

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Bizarre as it seems at first, you are statistically more likely to die on your birthday than any other individual day of the year.

Probably because people get drunk and do stupid shit ont heir birthday, resulting in an increased likelyhood of death. I would also bet that Friday's and Saturday's have a higher occurance of death, statistically speaking, than say Tuesday.

Doing stupid stuff would account for a blip, hanging on when really old could add a few, but statistically you are 14% more likely to die on your birthday than any other individual day of the year.

Which, without a cause, makes no sense. So there must be a cause to this effect and I still suggest it is that people do stupid shit on their birthday.

Of course, some actual reliable statistical evidence rather than a statement to that effect would be nice. For all we know, you are a liar like Split thinks the mods are. :-)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18626157

They seem to miss the obvious reason why more people die on their birthday. And that is for many people their birthday and deathday are the same day. Statistics that go back further in time would no doubt show a bigger percentage.

*birthday as in day they were born.

Go point. Stillborns and premmies have death certificates and birth certificates so if the baby doesn't make it but a few hours, it would have the same death day.

Coincidence is also a factor don't forget. I saw the mayor of my grandmas town drown on his birthday. He had a 7m deep pond, dived in and had a heart attack under water. Took half an hour just to find him. When I say I saw him drown, I mean I saw him go under and not come back up, I didn't stay for much longer than that, it was a big party and I just happened to be walking past.

But other than that it is reasonable, E.G. the amount of young people are are pressured into taking drugs on the birthday by their peers and overdose. Though I can never understand how anyone could consider those people 'friends' As a 18 year old student, I would never even consider drug use, but each to their own...

Also the stillborn point, does that count as a death on your birthday, as technically they were never born alive... Well that can bring into a whole other debate such as that which abortion debates face... But that got me thinking Draug, I may look into it.
What a jolly google search that will be.

Still borns and children lost in the third trimester get issued borth certificates, or at least they did in the 80s when my wife lost her first child at 29 weeks.

Sorry to hear about your's and Peg's loss. (I assume this was your loss too as I seem to recall you and Peg have a long marriage.)

In the UK all stillborns are registered after 24th week (which coincides with our abortion law). Parents have option of naming the child although this isn't mandatory.

We seemed to have strayed into a rather gruesome subject, I hoped you're pleased with yourself Sbyvl36?

Actually her loss predates me. She is 11 years older than me so was 34 when we got married.

@Sbyvl36,

Where do you see yourself in five years?