I think it's the most "kills" we had here on the GBB since we started this. Kind of scary when fully 1/3 of your list bites the proverbial dust.
I'm undecided if I'll participate in next year's contest. While it is ghoulishly fun I'm getting a little freaked by it.
Seriously. Even though, I do believe that your list (and everyone else) consisted of mostly 80+ or known ill. A lot of expected people who would eventually face the end soon. If you had a couple of the surprised deaths that happened this year...then yeah, I would fully agree about taking a year off from this.