After a little over a week in the hospital, Bernard McCollough, better known as Bernie Mac, died in Northwestern Memorial Hospital from complications stemming from pneumonia. There are talks that it was linked to sarcoidosis, but the disease had apparently gone into remission from 2005. Either way, it sucks. And what sucks even more is that for like a week, there were rumors circulating that the dude had already died, so I was kinda routing for him to come out of the hospital and be like "I told y'all I wasn't ready to go." But...he's gone. At 50.
Also,
Isaac Hayes, best known for the theme song for the 1971 movie, "Shaft," was "found dead" according to AOL.com yesterday. When his relatives found him, he was unconscious, and his treadmill was still going.
He also was the voice of Chef from the hit animated fiasco "South Park," but left after the show mocked Scientology, which Hayes has professed.
It's crazy...these are icons of our time...for a lot of people, Heath Ledger counts in this category too, but he died of an overdose. Mac died of illness, and Hayes died either of heart-failure (that's my personal guess...the way the story is reported, he was running on the treadmill and passed out...
I don't want to sound selfish here, but it's like coming to terms with your own mortality to watch icons that you thought had at least a couple more years in them just dying. Bernie Mac just finished doing a few jokes at an Obama get together that Obama had to denounce because they were divisive and offensive. And then he's gone. Just like that.
Crazy stuff yo. Pray for the families.
Again, I'm not great with death, so I don't know what to say besides pray for the families.
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