Not read past the first page, apologies if similar has been posted.
In my last job we had a Celebrity Death Club.
Upon joining people would pick 3 names, and they would go into a pool, each person would then draw out one name, £5 a month each until someone who has been drawn has died.
At one there was around 10 of us in it and one person won nearly £500, bastard, was a massively random one as well, natural causes tho as I remember.
If anyone selected what would be a dubious celebrity this would be voted on by the rest of the group to decide whether they could be entered into the pool.