*Official* In Memoriam Thread

[nullnor]

Fresno Bob pretends to be surprised when people like Luke Perry die, but if you look at his pre-rankings for the dead pool draft he'll have them listed anyways.

[Erik]

52? Wtf?

His father died of a heart attack in his mid-30s. Unfortunately, the biggest risk factor for having a heart attack or stroke at a young age is having a parent who did.

[Teenwolf]

Keith Flint, lead singer of The Prodigy, killed himself over the weekend. RIP twisted firestarter 🔥

Loved "firestarter" in high school... also loved the song sampled within (Art of Noise... the video with the creepy little girl and the dudes with the skill saws destroying a piano... scared me as a kid)

[revo]

Legendary wrestler King Kong Bundy died at age 61. RIP.

[Teenwolf]

Lots of heart attacks in my family, grandpa has had many operations, grandma died at 55, my mom's first heart attack was in her late 30's...

My mom was put on permanent disability in her late 40's due to dealing with Lupus. After 10 years of being very drugged up and immobile, my mom cut her meds, took on an extremely healthy diet, lost probably 100 lbs, and is active walking, cycling daily, and gardening again. She made a plan to retire in a tiny home, and she wanted to be healthy enough to squeeze some extra years out of life. I'm incredibly proud of her.

All this is to say, lifestyle and diet are much more directly responsible for health, including heart health, than our genetics. Genetic predispositions to disease are real, but we can protect ourselves through our diet and lifestyle, especially against non-genetically influenced disease. Heart attacks, diabetes, gout, erectile dysfunction... all preventable, based on lifestyle. Just like the massive increase in women dying early from alcohol consumption, after all the TV shows have been normalizing women binge drinking wine after a hard day. Lifestyle, not genetics.

Just my take.

[Teenwolf]

Legendary wrestler King Kong Bundy died at age 61. RIP.

Damn, I grew up with Wrestlemania 2 on VHS... the Hulk Hogan steel cage final. 61 is a good long life for a wrestler, which is terribly sad.

[Fresno Bob]

Fresno Bob pretends to be surprised when people like Luke Perry die, but if you look at his pre-rankings for the dead pool draft he'll have them listed anyways.

my strategy became wrestlers, young addicts in rehab and anyone with pancreatic cancer

[Steve 2.0]

my strategy became wrestlers, young addicts in rehab and anyone with pancreatic cancer

You know, I'm just an old, out-of-touch Okie, but IMO those Dead Pool drafts were some of the most disgusting things ever done here in my beloved Sports Bar. ( I SAID in MY opinion.....your mileage may and probably does vary.)

Oh, and that's probably a good strategy, Fresno.

[revo]

Actor Jan-Michael Vincent died of a heart attack at age 74.

[Erik]

Actor Jan-Michael Vincent died of a heart attack at age 74.

RIP Airwolf.

Also, it was cardiac arrest, not the same thing. I write about cardiology for a living so that's a pet peeve. Not that anyone else cares.

[revo]

RIP Airwolf.

Also, it was cardiac arrest, not the same thing. I write about cardiology for a living so that's a pet peeve. Not that anyone else cares.

Duly noted.

Carmine “The Snake” Persico, head of the Colombo crime family, died at age 85.

[Ken]

Also, it was cardiac arrest, not the same thing. I write about cardiology for a living so that's a pet peeve. Not that anyone else cares.

At least your heart's in it.

[johnnya24]

You know, I'm just an old, out-of-touch Okie, but IMO those Dead Pool drafts were some of the most disgusting things ever done here in my beloved Sports Bar. ( I SAID in MY opinion.....your mileage may and probably does vary.)

+ ... I too found them a bit distasteful. But I don't think they were offensive.

I was thinking this morning, wouldn't it be great if we had a "Like" function.

[Hornsby]

You mean something like this?

[revo]

+ ... I too found them a bit distasteful. But I don't think they were offensive.

I was thinking this morning, wouldn't it be great if we had a "Like" function.

I'm sure there is somewhere on the control panel, and I would like to add it. Johnny, I think I'm gonna make you a 'super' moderator. You're probably much better at the inner-working of vBulletin than I could be, even if you've never used it before as an admin.