Bernie Mac dead at age 50

[Davestone]

Complications from pneumonia...http://de.eonline.com/uberblog/ask_t...1957-2008.html

[ceramictec]

heard about him going in last week for pneumonia and heard about this earlier today with an email alert. i'm shocked and it's ashame.

[HS345]

That sucks, funny guy.

[MudMaker]

I read that this a.m. and shouted Holy S#$t. Fredia was upstairs and shouted down - Yea Bernie Mac died..

[Marge]

I read he had suffered from some lung disorder for awhile. Pneumonia would be a really bad thing. Sorry for his passing. He was quite an entertainer.

[MudMaker]

What is sarcoidosis?

Sarcoidosis is a disease that causes small areas of inflammation of the body’s tissues. This swelling produces small lumps called granulomas that can be either inside the body or on the outside as sores on the face or shins. Scar tissue forms while the lumps are expanding into groups.1 Sarcoidosis can attack any organ and always affects more than one of the body’s systems. However, more than 90 percent of patients with sarcoidosis will have lung involvement.2 When scarring occurs in the lungs, the lungs’ tiny air sacs (alveoli) are replaced by fibrotic tissue that is stiff, thicker than the normal lung tissue, and cannot absorb oxygen.3 Between 20 percent and 30 percent of people with pulmonary sarcoidosis end up with permanent lung damage.4 Pulmonary sarcoidosis can cause loss of lung volume, which is the amount of air the lungs can hold, and it can cause abnormal lung stiffness.

[ceramictec]

Isaac Hayes

On August 10, 2008, Hayes' wife found him on the floor near a treadmill inside his home located just east of Memphis, Tennessee. A Shelby County, Tennessee sheriff's deputy responded to Hayes' home. He was taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, where he was pronounced dead at 2:08pm, at the age of 65. The cause of death was not immediately known

[ddmoit]

Young South Park fans will be surprised to learn that Isaak Hayes had a career well before he played Chef on the show.

He was a bad motherSHUT YOUR MOUTH!!

[MudMaker]

This is gettin to be unreal.. My sympathy goes out to the families of these two guys.. Two giants have left us..

[tilerite]

I was just going to post about Isaac Hayes but I see Brian already did. Isaac was the coolest sucka alive. If I could have any voice in the world, it would be the voice of Isaac Hayes.

[ddmoit]

I guess we need to keep an eye on Samuel Jackson....

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080811/D92G2AQO2.html

Hayes was about to begin work on a new album for Stax, the soul record label he helped build to legendary status. And he had recently finished work on a movie called "Soul Men" in which he played himself, starring Samuel Jackson and Bernie Mac, who died on Saturday.

Only 65, and on a tread mill for cryin' out loud. That ain't fair!

[ceramictec]

I guess we need to keep an eye on Samuel Jackson.

nobody best be watchin my ass !