Really?

People who I thought were Dead already

• Leonard Cohen- I've thought he's been dead since the 70's when my Mom listened to him all the time. Aren't you supposed to be dead when they do a bunch of tribute albums of your songs?
  
• Fyvush Finkle - He's been playing old guys for a long time
  
• Evel Knievel - Again, thought he was dead in the '70's
• Syd Barret - Rock snobs know he was an original member of Pink Floyd. When people always said he "left the band" I figured he had died. Turns out he just died a few weeks ago.
• Milton Freidman - Just died the other day. He lived long enough to to see if his theories panned out.
  
• Jerry Blavat
  

Still here

• Lou Reed - In 1966 he wrote "....Heroin - will be the death of me" and he's still alive? What is he doing wrong? Or right?
  
• David Crosby
• Fidel Castro - Has outlived about ten U.S. Presidents. He has proven that Cigar smoking must be good for you
  
• Salman Rushdie
  

Why?

Johnny Carson deceased; Ed McMahon still alive

John Lennon and George Harrison gone; Ringo still here

Frank Sinatra dead; Englebert humperdink - still playing Vegas