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[–] DingoBilly@lemmy.world 66 points 7 months ago (13 children)

He was very much the Elon Musk of his times, and it's very possible he would have gone down the same route of extremist views and decisions that completely failed because of his egoism.

[–] machinin@lemmy.world 142 points 7 months ago (12 children)

He died because he didn't listen to his doctor's advice. That is somewhat extreme.

[–] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 101 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Had pancreatitis because of his diet. A diet in which he thought would magically avoid creating body odor.

It turned into cancer. He lucked out that it was a rare form of treatable pancreatic cancer with a 90% survival rate 5 years out. Which is abnormal as most forms of pancreatic are essentially a death sentence. Survival rate past 3 years is under 10% for the more common variants.

Stuck to his diet anyway. Ignored his doctors. Died to an illness he had a 90% chance of beating because he knew better.

[–] jve@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

He also jumped the line to get a liver transplant once he, presumably, decided maybe there’s a chance the diet thing wouldn’t work out.

Died shortly thereafter, wasting a perfectly good liver.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/business/23liver.html

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