♫ Come On Baby, Light My Pyre ♫

"DOORS" FOUNDING MEMBER RAY MANZAREK DIES AT 74
[Thanks for the inspiration for the lead, Ira!]
The Judges would've also accepted:

• When One Door Closes, Another Door Closes
• Dead as a Door [Thanks, +Stan!]
• ♫ This is The End ♫ [Thanks, +Stan!]
• ♫ Put out My Fire ♫ [Thanks, +Stan!]
• ♫ Peace Out, Frog ♫ [Thanks, Ira!]
• ♫ D.O.A. Woman ♫ [Thanks, Ira!]
• ♫ People are Dead ♫ [Thanks, Ira!]
• Ray Manzarek Has Broken On Through to the Other Side [Thanks, +Evan!]
• ♫ Goodbye, I Loved You .♫ [Thanks, +Evan!]

Dick Stops Trickling

NASCAR DRIVER DICK TRICKLE DIES OF SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT
The Judges would've also accepted:

• That'll Leave a NAsty SCAR.
• Dick Trigger
• Dick Trickle Shoots Load. [Thanks, +Stan!]
• Dick Trickle Getting Pickled [Thanks, +Evan]

The Judges considered it a Photo Finish for:

• Dick Pulled His Trigger [Thanks, +Stan!]
• Dick Trickle Finally Succumbs to 60-year-old Teasing Incident [Thanks, +Stan!]
• Graveside Suicide

Smothered Brothers

PSYCHOLOGIST DR. JOYCE BROTHERS DIES AT 85
[Thanks for the lead, +Stan!]
The Judges would've also accepted:

• Joyce Brothers Knocked Out. [Thanks, +Stan!]
• Joyce Brothers Needs a Doctor. [Thanks, +Stan!]
• Oh Brothers, Where Art Thou. [Thanks, +Stan!]
• Brothers Can You Spare Some Lime. [Thanks, +Stan!]
• The Six-Feet-Under Question
• From Boxing Expert to Box Expert

Dr. Joy Browne, Dr. John and The Jonas Brothers were unavailable for comment

April's Dead-Line Die-Jest

"STAR WARS" CHARACTER ACTOR RICHARD LEPARMENTIER DIES AT 66

• "I Find Your Lack of a Pulse Disturbing"
• Admiral Body

USA TODAY FOUNDER AL NEUHARTH DIES AT 89

●Breaking NEWS: Al Neuharth, Failed Founder of SoDak SPORTS, Whose Innovation of USA TODAY's Satellite Delivered Newspaper TECH  Earned Him Lots of  MONEY, Runs Out of LIFE.

M*A*S*H ACTOR ALLAN ARBUS DIES AT 95

• Dr. Sidney Deadman
• Arbus A-6-Feety
• "Ladies And Gentlemen, Take My Advice: Drape Me In Sheets And Put Me On Ice."

"The Possum" Plays Possum

GEORGE JONES, COUNTRY SUPERSTAR, DIES AT 81
The Judges would've also accepted:

• ♫ He Stopped Living Here Today ♫
• ♫ His Heart Stopped Lub-Dubbing Him Today ♫
• ♫ I Was Country But Now My Body's Cool ♫

Richie Heavens

RICHIE HAVENS, FOLK AND WOODSTOCK LEGEND, DEAD AT 72
The Judges Woodstock've also accepted:

• ♫ The Touch, the Feel of Cotton, The Fabric of My Shroud ♫
• ♫ There's Something About a Tomb that's Magic ♫
• ♫ Aren't You Glad You Just Died? ♫ [Thanks, +Roy!]
• Mixed Body Bag

And Frank Bank as "The Corpse"

'LUMPY' FROM 'LEAVE IT TO BEAVER', FRANK BANK DIES
The Judges would've also accepted:

• Lumpy now just a lump. [Thanks, +Stan!]
• Frank Bank Sank. Six feet. [Thanks, +Stan!]
• Lumpy Has Taken His Life To The Bank. [Thanks, Jason!]
• "Gee Lumpy, You're Dead." "Yeah Beev, I Guess You're Right." [Thanks, +Roy!]
• Lumpy has Flat-lined. [Thanks. +Evan!]
• Leave it to Bereaver [Thanks, +Roy!]