Seau is the fifth member of the 1994 San Diego Chargers, which lost to the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl, to die since 2006 from conditions possibly related to their NFL careers. All were younger than 45._____
In 2006, Curtis Whitley was found dead in his Texas trailer from an apparent drug overdose. Months later former lineman Chris Mims was found dead in his Chicago apartment from a heart attack. Mims weighed 456 pounds at death. Shawn Lee died of a heart attack in February 2011, resulting from complications from pneumonia, diabetes, and obesity. In December 2011, former linebacker Lewis Bush also died of a heart attack.
A 1994 study of 7,000 former players by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health revealed that NFL players had a life expectancy of 55, at that time 20 years below the average for American males. Former NFL linemen had a 52 percent greater likelihood of dying from heart disease than the population as a whole.
Celebrity biographer or dead-celebrity trasher Charles Higham, 81, of a heart attack:
Many of Mr. Higham’s books met with public skepticism in at least some aspect. In “Howard Hughes: The Secret Life” (1993), for instance, his assertions that Hughes had a romance with Cary Grant, was centrally involved in Watergate, offering material assistance to some of the conspirators, and quite possibly died of AIDS all raised eyebrows in the news media.
But none sent brows quite as high as “Errol Flynn: The Untold Story” (1980), in which Mr. Higham asserted that Flynn, who died in 1959, had spied for Germany during World War II. Though critics faulted the book for building a deductive chain not expressly compelled by the evidence, Mr. Higham defended his methods.
“I don’t have a document that says A, B, C, D, E, Errol Flynn was a Nazi agent,” he said in an interview with The New York Times the year the biography was published. “But I have pieced together a mosaic that proves that he is.”
Members of Flynn’s family sued Mr. Higham and the book’s publisher, Doubleday. In 1983, a California appeals court affirmed the trial court’s dismissal of the case on the grounds that one cannot sue for libel on behalf of a dead person.
Of course this gave more "biographers" an excuse to libel the dead since nobody can sue on their behalf.
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Earl Rose, 85, Dallas coroner at the time JFK was assassinated, of complications of Parkinson's.
But it was the autopsy he did not do that has become the most historic. After demanding to conduct an autopsy on the president, as he was legally required to do in any murder, Dr. Rose reluctantly stepped aside to allow the president’s body to be returned to Washington, as the president’s widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, and his aides insisted.
The autopsy was later performed at Bethesda National Naval Medical Center in Maryland. The pathologists there did not know that a doctor at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, where the stricken president had been taken, had performed a tracheotomy on Kennedy that obscured a gunshot wound in his neck. Nor did they have access to the clothing the president was wearing.
This gave ammo to the nutball conspiracy theorists, who still peddled their bullshit for profit to this day.
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Champion swimmer Alexander Dale Oen, only 26, died the other day of cardiac arrest:
According to The Associated Press, a Norwegian team doctor performed CPR on Dale Oen after he was found on his bathroom floor. He was taken by ambulance to the Flagstaff Medical Center before being pronounced dead._____
Beastie Boys' member Adam Yauch, 47, after a long battle with cancer:
Yauch was born an only child in Brooklyn, New York. While attending Edward R. Murrow High School, he taught himself to play the bass guitar, and formed the initial incarnation of the Beastie Boys with Michael Diamond (a.k.a. Mike D. ). They played their first show on Yauch's 17th birthday. Yauch attended Bard College for two years before dropping out to focus on music.
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